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Morning all
Not sure this is in the right place, my apolagies if its not. Im trying to find a smoke unit that actually simulates smoke unlike the ones in Heng Long tanks. I'm trying to find one for a HL T90.

I have spoken to Dave from Forgebear tanks and it seems that as I have the latest board TK-6.0 there isnt a proportional smoke unit that has been tried and tested with this board. Very helpful guy by the way.

HL do make another smoke unit but its very hard trying to get information from anyone to ask if it would work with HL latest boards and if its proportional or not.

Any help will be much appreciated.
Growbag

Hi
One way is to add this to any smoker to make it proportional.
https://www.rctank.de/Smoke-unit-upgrad ... onal-smoke

I have one on my hl stock smoker. I'm happy.

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Hi RenoirLV
Thanks for the prompt reply. Does you suggestion involve much soldering? It seems a good plan though.

There surely is soldering involved. Both the heater and the fan/pump motor wires go to the board, as does wires to at least one of the gearbox motors, to receive info about revs.
I was delighted to find that this way the noisy HL stock smoker became nearly perfect. It turns slowly at low revs and is not heard at all and at high revs the noise is cancelled out by the tank sounds. Perfect solution IMHO.

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You might give some thought to a Tarr unit. They're fully proportional, and a popular choice amongst RCTW's membership.
How one will match up with the TK 6.0 is, as yet, uncertain. My guess is that one it should work well with it. A bit more research is needed.
https://www.rctankelectronics.com/store ... _Unit.html

A Tarr unit per se has the capacity to be proportional. It basically means it has separate wires to the heater and the fan. In most if not all cases proportional operation is ensured by the mfu or the plate I posted here. So any other smoker can be proportional. There are two components that are either fed by the same power source or two separate sources. If there is only one socket for the smoker with two pins I don't believe it is proportional.

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A word of warning, I use Tarr smokers whenever I am able BUT they do not work with Taigens newest Board and I would take advice if I were you before buying a Tarr smoker for your Heng Long 6.0 Board.
Perhaps Ian (Tankbear) or Dave (Forgebear) both of them being dealers who sell Tarr smokers would have information ?

Hi Jarndice
I spoke to Dave yesterday and he advised me that it wasnt a good idea as the board is new. Its a TK-6.0.

Andrew from Haya Ltd has advised me that Heng Long sell a smoker thats proportional and its on their site but im not prepared to buy and try to fit anything unless im sure. I need to know if its plug and play or a soldering job.

If anyone could let me know if there is a way round it id be gratefull.

GB if it is any consolation a lot of us gave up on smokers for many years simply because they either did not work or failed within weeks of buying the Tank,
Life goes on without a smoker

My experiences with the smoke generators:

https://radindustries.wordpress.com/201 ... enerators/

I have to update the entry anway. Now I have the V3 versions fully working. Heaps of smoke!
EDIT: I will update the entry with proportional smoke too.