Canadian Firefly

[YHR]

FOV Sherman RC'd and turned into a firefly.

[BREL]

Nice work and tank

[FireflyKeith]

Thats agreat looking Sherman, nice job on converting it to RC 

[oztruck]

Very nice work. How well does it run with all that weight?

[tiger205]

nice firefly YHR, what electronics are you using? like oztruck said, how well does it run with all that weight?

                  Tony

[YHR]

Thanks

I used Heng Long electonics.  As you can see in the picture I added heat sinks.  This is also running a 3:1 gear reduction over the standard Heng Long gearing.(added one more gear)  This means the motors draw less amps because of the mechanical advantage of the gear ratio.  I actually blew three boards before I found out I had a short across one motor as it touched the opposing gear tower.  I have since insulated the motor tabs, so this doesn't happen again.  In the process of trouble shooting, I also added a cooling fan.  The speaker has also been remounted facing downward.  The bass response is at least twice as good!!!!!  It actually has a rumble to it.

From now on all my installs well be fuse protected.  It just makes sense. As far as ESC's go these boards are incredibly cheap, but still the addion of a $5.00 fuse should should prevent flame outs.

[Plastic scouser]

I watched your progress on the other forum and thought this was a great build, Nice job YHR

Cheers Ian

[DOG]

You have got a great sherman there .

[Mackem]

Excellent work, great pics aswell.

John