Gearbox upgrade

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Son of a gun-ner
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Re: Gearbox upgrade

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David2547 wrote:Just opened tank, oh how embarrassing, I had reversed the polarity..
Just heating up the iron whilst I ring the GP for a colour blindness checkup
I don't believe you, stop making excuses for shoddy factory child labour ;)
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Re: Gearbox upgrade

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I could be wrong of course, how could a 20 year professional hobbyist
make such a basic mistake.
Bloody Chinese !

Thanks again for your invaluable help
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Re: Gearbox upgrade

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You're welcome.
I guess it's now operational to within expected parameters?
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Re: Gearbox upgrade

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Hi, yes the tank is performing all it's required actions.
The only thing I have not looked at is the smoke operation.
It's funny that I dismissed the polarity conflict, becos I couldn't digest in my mind the impact on the joystick movements, I assumed it would just cause a reverse movement problem.
I thought at one point it was the transmitter as I had to resolder wires that had come adrift ( my soldering is direr).
My whole combo must be an early production model as everything is hard wired, the later models have plugs etc
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Re: Gearbox upgrade

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On the newer tanks you can switch polarity without soldering iron by just flipping the pin positions in the JST connector... :)

You probably couldn't wrap your head around it because the HL controller performs mixing functions between the two motors.
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