Taigen Wiring

[c.rainford73]

I've been working on adding a Taigen IR metal sherman turret to my Mato sherman that I've rewired and have run into a problem. The wiring harness for the 360 turret has a coax machine gun so heres where I'm at...

I'm using an older style designed daughter board.

1.I assume the 3 pin connector red and black is the machine gun so thats not a problem. ( I think)

2. I know where the two 5 pin connections go to on my IBU.

3. Individual blue wire is my negative.

4. The last 3 pin wire is my issue. Yellow brown and black

I know it powers the gun elevation bit according to taigen one wire is gun fire?

So here's my question...

If I utilize two wires to power gun elevation where does the third one go to?

I know the standard taigen daughter board has a place for this 3 pin setup on the upper hull.

I guess I could just order a proper tiagen daughter board they are cheap about 5 bucks.

I was hoping to use my existing daughter board and just place the wires in proper locations.

Not sure what each of those 3 wires go yellow brown and black

The hull upper daughter daughter board pics attached.

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[c.rainford73]

I obviously have a spot for a 2 pin connector for gun elevation on my daughter board. Where would the 3rd wire from the 3 pin connector go if I simply soldered it?

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[c.rainford73]

Here are some diagrams. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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[c.rainford73]

With some testing I've found that the 3 pin connector shares gun recoil and elevation. Black brown and yellow wires.

The outer yellow and black are elevation. The center brown lead is recoil.

I assumption is they are sharing a common + or -



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[PainlessWolf]

Good Morning Carl!
You have learned quite a bit about that Taigen wiring setup just from working with it. Now save yourself the headache of issues down the line ( like when I updated the wiring in my old MATO M4A176(W) and tried to use the existing board ) 5.00 or some one here having a spare and you will sleep soundly for years to come. Thanks for chronicling your work so effectively with great close-up photos. ;o)
regards,
Painless

[c.rainford73]

I agree. I figured this question has been asked before and if I document my work someone may find it useful

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[john1970]

sorry got that wrong.

Your three pin plug has 1 positive 2 negative the positive powers both the elevation motor and the recoil motor the negatives are 1 each for recoil and elevation not sure which way round. The red and black on the 3 pin plug is for the turret machine gun and connects with your hull machine gun

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[c.rainford73]

Thanks John. I beleive I found an earlier post from you on this very same topic. I'm very close to getting this thing sorted now.

[c.rainford73]

Appears you've nailed it John. The brown wire powers the recoil mechanism. Crazy Joe's cousin Pistol Pete approves. Once I sort each ( -) for the elevation and recoil I'm all set

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