New taigen recoil turret

[dane61]

bourght a complete taigen turret for my tiger1.

I cant figure out the wiring ( old turret was BB) and Im looking for someone who has done this. That way I dont have to open the turret to figure it out, and i can save time .

I have put numbers on the wires that come out of the turret to make it easy.

number 1 has 5 pins ( brown yellow blue black red)

number 2 has 5 pins ( white yellow blue black red)

number 3 has 1 pin ( red)

number 4 has 3 pins ( red black black)

It is going to be connected to a taigen 2,4 ghz unit

TIA Dane61

[MichaelC]

dane61,

1 is your IR/emitter and receiver so it should go into CN2 on the HL RX-18/Same spot on the Taigen MFU (1st 5 PIN port)

2 is your recoil and flash control and it needs to go into CN3 on the HL RX-18/Same spot on the Taigen MFU(2nd 5 PIN port)

3 is your Neg(-) recoil return, and it needs to be wired to the Neg(-) on your battery or power switch.

4 is your recoil and elevation motor control. In the older ones they usually come with just three leads and you will need to solder them to the little patch board, but in the new one like this they expect you to have a 3 PIN male connector attached to the 8 PIN connector board for CN9 on the HL RX-18/Bottom 8 PIN port on the Taigen MFU. You will need to figure out which is which among the three wires, the 3 PIN male connector should be taped into PIN 3/4/5 on the connector board from CN9, with PIN 4/5 being the elevation motor.

Hope this help.

MIchaelC

[Tankbear]

The number of these units Taigen sell you think their could produce an instruction booklet

This question must be asked at least once a week.

Not a go at you Dane61, hope you got it working with MichaelC help.

Ian.

[MichaelC]

No kidding Ian. Maybe we can do a How to here in the forum. I guess it was fine when they were selling them piece meal, but now that they are also putting it into upper hulls and turrets they are all over the place. I still prefer them over servo recoil though..........

[scottlongworth]

Im trying to install on onto my HL tiger1 which my upper hull has the 8 pin as pictured on the original picture posted but also has other female connections so will no 4 cable just plug directly into the midfle 3 pin or is it best to run it directly from the rx18 as suggested

[MichaelC]

Scott,

Don't think it matters. The new ones also have additional connectors so that you can disconnect the hull/turret easier but as long as it is going to the right place to the RX-18 its really your choice.

MichaelC

[scottlongworth]

Cheers michael

[Teo64]

I'm sorry, I'm writing in a old topic.
I've bought a metal turret for Tiger (an Asiatam or Taigen turret I suppose) for my "old" Heng Long Tiger. No installing instructions avalaible.
This topic describes my problem. The wires of my turret are the same and the upper hull of my tiger is the same than that in first picture, the little board hasn't attached a 3 PIN male connector. Then I don't know or better I don't understand where to connect the wire number 4.
It would be possible to see a picture of this connection?
Thank you

[Teo64]

I'm sorry, I'm writing in a old topic.
I've bought a metal turret for Tiger (an Asiatam or Taigen turret I suppose) for my "old" Heng Long Tiger. No installing instructions avalaible.
This topic describes my problem. The wires of my turret are the same and the upper hull of my tiger is the same than that in first picture, the little board hasn't attached a 3 PIN male connector. Then I don't know or better I don't understand where to connect the wire number 4.
It would be possible to see a picture of this connection?
Thank you

This is the picture of my upper hull (in this case the tank is my panther G, but the cabling is the same than the tiger). There is an additional little squared board where are fixed some cables becoming from my old turret.

[MichaelC]

Teo,

The simplest way to do this in your case is to trace the three cables that are connected to the little patch board from the turret, and then cut the connector from the Taigen turret and solder the three wires to the same spot. The three wires should be a neg- to your elevation motor, a neg- to your recoil switch, and a pos+ shared between the two.

It could very be that the colours are matching, i,e. the black/black/red matches the black/black/red on the little patch board, but I won't trust it too much.

MichaelC.