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Captain Morgan wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2023 8:41 pm Congratulations! I follow your progress on YouTube. I also received them a long time ago, I checked how they would work with my mini version of the OpenPanzer board.
In general, they showed themselves to be efficient.

Good to know. I will be wiring some of those up soon for a new project. These latest ESC's below are very small, maybe the smallest available

Ok back on topic

Short video of the Testors Half Track

https://studio.youtube.com/video/NCXyl24Uxkw/edit

Very short video of the Tamiya Half Track. towing a field gun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnL2ylBjuGY

Yes the Hood is missing off the Tamiya M2. There is a piece of clear plastic where the Hood should be but that clear plastic is actually part of the winshield and just shows because the Hood is gone. Just in case anyone wondered

Update on the Ultra Micro twin ESC's. They work very well ! They come with or without track Mixer. I only ordered one without and then realised I needed more and they are sold out

So far I have one with mixer in operation in a 1/77 scale Leopard II driving a set of coreless motors. It is very cool having a coreless motorized remote control tank in this scale. I used a few mixes in the DX6e Transmitter to get it running just right. I have have several motorized military models in small scales 1/77, 172, 164 but they were all Toy Grade radio systems and no matter what I did to enhance them they just did not perform that well...COMPARATIVELY to using a computer Transmitter system like the Spektrum Dx6e.

Looks like the discussion got "off track" see what I did there ..lol the ESC TOPIC is continued here. viewtopic.php?t=35118

This thread will continue with more 1/35 scale Half Track from here on.

Ok Thread is back on "Track" see what I did there?

The Testors M4A1 Half Track is working good and have decided to do a "Track steer assist" mod as it has individual motor for each Track so a differential track steering assist mod can be implemented. This will consist of a dual ESC with track mix for the Tracks and a Servo for the front wheel steering then a mix front steering to rear tracks so 3 channels will be used for this mod.

edit.
I have been testing this for a couple of days and it works EXCELLENT! 2 simple Transmitter mixes is all that is required to get Half Track Track Assist steering.

Here is a video of the M4 Testers. In this video I have mild settings on the Track assist steering mix to enable long run time from the small Lipo.

This one goes full screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCXyl24Uxkw&t=41s

The Testers M4 Half Track worked so good with it new 3 channel steering that I decided to upgrade the old Hanomag with the same radio setup.

I will try to get some videos asap on the two.

Here is recent video. The Testors HT is using Track steer assist with low mix settings to allow long run time with the small lipo.

So far the Testors and Tamiya M3 HT's have DSMX with Telemetry. The other HT's 2 have older DSM2. I plan to update all to DSMX TLM.

This model has Telemetry that shows:

1. battery voltage
2. ESC temperature
3. Time motors are running or runtime.

There are more options available but these are the 3 main three variables shown on the Telemetry screen on the Transmitter.

Testers M3 HT DSMX TLM with Track assist steering
https://youtu.be/NCXyl24Uxkw

Tamiya M3 HT DSMX TLM
https://youtu.be/gnL2ylBjuGY

Coming soon
Next video will be the Hanomag with Track assist steering

Finally got a decent video of the Hanomag HT. This is a very old model ~40 years old
This latest retrofit adds Track Assist Steering. Without track Assist, weights had to be added to the front for ballast else the steering was poor. There are no weights added to the front in this latest retrofit.

This is a Tamiya model vintage 1975. I have the original instructions and parts trees but no box.


Latest Hanomag video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27GIQbj0JLs

Towards the end of the video, the left track drive pinion gear started to slip so that affected the performance in reverse, Problem has been resolved and I will do a new video showing the HT maneuvering in reverse asap.

Had some time today so did a short M4 video showing track assist steering in action doing what wheeled vehicles can not do...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B-5r3bQTYk

That's a rough ride downhill! I'd bet the crew had to run off screen to...