Thank you Doc.Herr Dr. Professor wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:49 pm Louis, I hope it's not too late to wish you a pleasant trip. I noticed your comment that you threw away...the RX-18 stuff...and will have to get a couple more TK 7.1 for plug and play." I hope you will be able to present a lesson when you "plug" in the TK 7.1. I have a few older HengLong tanks that might benefit from such a change-over, especially my insulting-award-winning Tauchpanzer. (viewtopic.php?p=347727&hilit=Tauchpanzer#p347727) and (viewtopic.php?p=347832&hilit=Tauchpanzer#p347832). Maybe you could do, please, a "Putting in a TK 7.1 for Idiots" post.
I have a lot of RC tanks, they were built over decades with specific boards coming with them or that were fashionable at the time. When i started scratch building tanks one after another, i could not afford buying specific control boards for each. So, each tank is pre-wired for a specific board and when i want to run a tank, i just move the required board from one tank to another. So, I need things to be plug and play and easily reconfigured if needed. For my own need, the TK 7.1 is the easiest board to plug and play. All the functions have their own port with a standard connector, and any reconfiguration, such as inverting the recoil servo, is done with buttons on the emitter or the board. No more TV remote or PC app, no more single 8 pin connector with 6 LEDs pilling up on the negative wire... And it has a good solid protective box to move it around. Yes, the sound options are limited, but with an army of tanks, there would never be enough sound options to match the tanks or AFV i have.
So, instead of always buying or creating new tanks, i think i have a whole set of existing tanks that need modernization, standardization, and a refreshing of the paint job. Skills improved with time too.
Regards, Louis