Problems with Heng Long Jagdpanther (PARTIALLY SOLVED)
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:04 pm
Hello!
Two months ago my gf gave me my first RC Tank as a gift. It is a Heng Long Jagdpanther (3869).
However, I've had a few problems since the start that led to a series of other consequences and more problems...
I am going to list every problem so perhaps you can help me to find a solution!!
PROBLEM 1 - Slipping tracks
After the initial shock and surprise of such an amazing present in the morning, I assembled the tank and charged the batteries to go and play with it.
After some hours the batteries were full and we went to a park to try and play with the tank.
It was amazing, super fun and a very powerful! However after a pair of hours I noticed that the tracks started to slip off the idlers; both them.
Every time I moved the tracks into place, they slipped off again. That worried me a lot.
Later that night I researched about the problem and it seems it was somehow common. Many people upgraded their tanks with metal tracks, idlers and wheels; and I thought it was a fantastic idea!
Being located in Spain, I found a German dealer and I bought the metal tracks, metal wheels and idlers.
PROBLEM 2 - Incompatible wheels
When I got the package from Germany I was excited to upgrade my tank so I started to dissasembled it. I took pictures of the command board to have a reference of how all cables were connected and carefully removed everything.
But once I liberated the hull I noticed something terrible: the metal wheels didn't matched the plastic suspension arms and I don't had the proper hardware to assemble neither the metal idlers, traction wheels or tracks.
Really pissed off, I assembled the tank again with his stock parts and I've connected everything following the pictures I took earlier. That led to another problem.
PROBLEM 3 - The tank has "died"
I had the tank assembled again. But then when I wanted to try it again, nothing happened. The battery was full, the command board had all the components correctly connected, the controller had battery and was working. But not the tank.
Every time I switched it to ON, it was like it's dead: nothing happened.
I reassembled the tank many times, double-checking all the time that I was connecting everything on the correct place.
But nothing. The tank literally died.
Totally pissed off, I decided that I was not letting it to die. I had the metal parts getting dust on a box, and with them all the money I invested.
So I placed another order to the German dealer: upgraded metal hull, "3 in 1 Pro Steel gearset flat motors long axis with full sets flange bearings" and a few other decorations.
PROBLEM 4 - Incompatibility with the motor and the command board!
When I received the package from Germany I instantly started to assemble all the parts together. This time I had all the proper hardware and I researched on a lot of pages to have an idea of how to properly work on it.
I assembled the new metal hull, the pro motor and all the metal wheels and tracks with ease, and proceeded to connect all the other parts together again.
Then, I had another bad surprise: the cables of the new motor didn't matched with the command board.
So again, I have an expensive and amazing Tank dying on a shelve.
This is the new motor:
And this is the stock command board: (Heng Long TK-6.0)
PROBLEM 5 - Do I need a new command board?
I was researching a bit about the command boards and I found one that matched with the cables of my new motor:
And according to the German dealer, this command board matches with the controller of the new generation Heng Long tanks like mine.
But again, this leads me to yet a new problem...
PROBLEM 6 - Will the new command board be compatible with my controller?
Okay so I can simply buy a new command board, connect all the parts together again and pray for it to work.
However, what about the compatibility with my controler? I don't know how a controller is linked to a command board, and I fear that while I can buy that new board, the controller will not recognize it...
It's like a nightmare
So what can I do? Has anyone had the same or similar problems?
Right now I only wish to put that Tank back into action and enjoy the hell out of it!!
Two months ago my gf gave me my first RC Tank as a gift. It is a Heng Long Jagdpanther (3869).
However, I've had a few problems since the start that led to a series of other consequences and more problems...
I am going to list every problem so perhaps you can help me to find a solution!!
PROBLEM 1 - Slipping tracks
After the initial shock and surprise of such an amazing present in the morning, I assembled the tank and charged the batteries to go and play with it.
After some hours the batteries were full and we went to a park to try and play with the tank.
It was amazing, super fun and a very powerful! However after a pair of hours I noticed that the tracks started to slip off the idlers; both them.
Every time I moved the tracks into place, they slipped off again. That worried me a lot.
Later that night I researched about the problem and it seems it was somehow common. Many people upgraded their tanks with metal tracks, idlers and wheels; and I thought it was a fantastic idea!
Being located in Spain, I found a German dealer and I bought the metal tracks, metal wheels and idlers.
PROBLEM 2 - Incompatible wheels
When I got the package from Germany I was excited to upgrade my tank so I started to dissasembled it. I took pictures of the command board to have a reference of how all cables were connected and carefully removed everything.
But once I liberated the hull I noticed something terrible: the metal wheels didn't matched the plastic suspension arms and I don't had the proper hardware to assemble neither the metal idlers, traction wheels or tracks.
Really pissed off, I assembled the tank again with his stock parts and I've connected everything following the pictures I took earlier. That led to another problem.
PROBLEM 3 - The tank has "died"
I had the tank assembled again. But then when I wanted to try it again, nothing happened. The battery was full, the command board had all the components correctly connected, the controller had battery and was working. But not the tank.
Every time I switched it to ON, it was like it's dead: nothing happened.
I reassembled the tank many times, double-checking all the time that I was connecting everything on the correct place.
But nothing. The tank literally died.
Totally pissed off, I decided that I was not letting it to die. I had the metal parts getting dust on a box, and with them all the money I invested.
So I placed another order to the German dealer: upgraded metal hull, "3 in 1 Pro Steel gearset flat motors long axis with full sets flange bearings" and a few other decorations.
PROBLEM 4 - Incompatibility with the motor and the command board!
When I received the package from Germany I instantly started to assemble all the parts together. This time I had all the proper hardware and I researched on a lot of pages to have an idea of how to properly work on it.
I assembled the new metal hull, the pro motor and all the metal wheels and tracks with ease, and proceeded to connect all the other parts together again.
Then, I had another bad surprise: the cables of the new motor didn't matched with the command board.
So again, I have an expensive and amazing Tank dying on a shelve.
This is the new motor:
And this is the stock command board: (Heng Long TK-6.0)
PROBLEM 5 - Do I need a new command board?
I was researching a bit about the command boards and I found one that matched with the cables of my new motor:
And according to the German dealer, this command board matches with the controller of the new generation Heng Long tanks like mine.
But again, this leads me to yet a new problem...
PROBLEM 6 - Will the new command board be compatible with my controller?
Okay so I can simply buy a new command board, connect all the parts together again and pray for it to work.
However, what about the compatibility with my controler? I don't know how a controller is linked to a command board, and I fear that while I can buy that new board, the controller will not recognize it...
It's like a nightmare
So what can I do? Has anyone had the same or similar problems?
Right now I only wish to put that Tank back into action and enjoy the hell out of it!!