DGS Military hobbies IR Upgrades

[Dandyfunk3]

Hello all, I was looking for some insight to the above IR units. Has anyone owned/installed one of these units?

[Jofaur86]

Hello, there are no pictures? looking for reviews on IR battle systems? that's right ? for what kind of tanks? Heng Long, Taigen, etc or Tamiya?

[HERMAN BIX]

I would contact mr DGS direct. He’s very active on most Rc Tamk platforms and a lot of his systems have been installed by guys in those other platforms successfully.
Dean is a straight up guy who is very good at what he does.
I’m sure he will be happy to assist

[Jofaur86]

Sorry, follow me mistaken, for info attached his site
https://dgsselkirk.wixsite.com/dgsmilitaryhobby

[Dandyfunk3]

Tanks for the input folks. The question that I am asking is who has done an upgrade? What product did you use? and was it a success. I was looking for feedback on your experience with the DGS product.
Thanks Breck

[MrChef]

Tanks for the input folks. The question that I am asking is who has done an upgrade? What product did you use? and was it a success. I was looking for feedback on your experience with the DGS product.
Thanks Breck

There are some pretty active IR battle guys over on Hobby Squawk that have experience with this topic. I'll link it here- https://www.hobbysquawk.com/forum/rc-ca ... r-emitters

Mr. Bix or other Moderators, if linking to another forum isn't cool I understand. And I'm sorry for doing so. feel free to delete it.

[tankme]

I have a DGS system on my Firefly since I bought it from Dean. Works fine as that has a Clark TK80 in it. I've never done it on a HL controller as I usually replace the HL systems.

[HERMAN BIX]

Tanks for the input folks. The question that I am asking is who has done an upgrade? What product did you use? and was it a success. I was looking for feedback on your experience with the DGS product.
Thanks Breck

There are some pretty active IR battle guys over on Hobby Squawk that have experience with this topic. I'll link it here- https://www.hobbysquawk.com/forum/rc-ca ... r-emitters

Mr. Bix or other Moderators, if linking to another forum isn't cool I understand. And I'm sorry for doing so. feel free to delete it.

Any positive info from any source is fine with me. No one needs to be insecure about the real life fact that people look across a broad spectrum of fountains of information to get what they need.
Thanks for sharing, I'm certain that will be of use .

[Jarlath]

Hello all, I was looking for some insight to the above IR units. Has anyone owned/installed one of these units?

I have seen these tested and used a fair bit. The IR Receiver is top notch for a cheap aftermarket alternative to the Tamiya apple.
The IR Emitter LED is a good quality emitter. The emitter mount is designed for those that have minimal modelling ability (aka skill to mount in the mantlet, or other semi hidden fashion).

Like some, I like the ability to use my cannon elevation/depression to my advantage and prefer the IR emitter is tied to that. But is it necessary? Not really.
That being said, the twin magnet mounting system works on metal turrets on Taigens with mounting/aligning magnets inside the tank and on the emitter housing.

I do have the DGS receiver and I use the same IR bulbs that DGS uses in his kits. They work well.

However I cannot comment on the kit's usage in the HL system as I only run Clark boards.

[MrChef]

Hello all, I was looking for some insight to the above IR units. Has anyone owned/installed one of these units?

I have seen these tested and used a fair bit. The IR Receiver is top notch for a cheap aftermarket alternative to the Tamiya apple.
The IR Emitter LED is a good quality emitter. The emitter mount is designed for those that have minimal modelling ability (aka skill to mount in the mantlet, or other semi hidden fashion).

Like some, I like the ability to use my cannon elevation/depression to my advantage and prefer the IR emitter is tied to that. But is it necessary? Not really.
That being said, the twin magnet mounting system works on metal turrets on Taigens with mounting/aligning magnets inside the tank and on the emitter housing.

I do have the DGS receiver and I use the same IR bulbs that DGS uses in his kits. They work well.

However I cannot comment on the kit's usage in the HL system as I only run Clark boards.

Ok, something that I have read is the IR Emitter bulbs have a certain use "life" and need to be replaced accordingly. I don't know much about this and if it effects which system but maybe you or someone with experience with this could elaborate?