Other types of mfu boards

[Sam84]

Hello everyone,

What I am asking is if anyone here has anything to do with the Arduino units and the dasmikro units in 1/16 tanks?

Since ibu3 isn't available any more from what I can search, I've been trying to find other alternatives to mfu instead of the standard henglong ones, I've got a couple of Clarks and ibu3. Just wondering if anyone has installed and used Arduino and dasmikro units and if they are any of them are good?

Many thanks

Sam

[Jib]

I’m going through the process of installing an OpenPanzer TCB and DasMikro for a 1/8 scale build, and it’s great for that. For 1/16 I am partial to ElMod. Beier and SGS are some other favorites around here. I have zero experience with arduino

[Jimster]

I use Elmod and Beier. My Kubelwagen has a DasMikro.

[Sam84]

Thank you heaps for those suggestions will have to look them up, how does the dasmikro stand up against the other boards?

[Kaczor]

My friend uses a dasmicro in 1/10 and 1/6 models. It works fine. Of course, it requires external ESCs and in his case he added an external sound amplifier.

[Xiaoshan_Sailor]

This was posted on a FB group from an RC hobbyist in Vietnam. Offers a nice recap on the various features & user value on commonly available commercial boards.

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[Herr Dr. Professor]

Oh, that is a handy chart! Thank you, Sailor!

[Jib]

Thank you heaps for those suggestions will have to look them up, how does the dasmikro stand up against the other boards?

While I think you can use the DasMikro as a control card, in most cases, I think, it’s just used as a control card.

So no experience with Beier or Clark, but compared to Elmod it pales in comparison. The DasMikro you can have up to I think 93 seconds of total recording time? When used with the OpenPanzer TCB you can have the normal set of tank sounds and then 6 user sounds. Again, you are limited to about a minute and a half total, of sounds.

With the Elmod you can do up to 24 user sounds, and some of my sounds are whole songs, like Master of Puppets or old German parade songs.

Also Elmod is much much more user friendly than DasMikro, and I think Elmod is a larger library of sounds than DasMikro does. But you’re talking $30 versus $300 so…

[Sam84]

Hi all thank you for all of your input and thank you to sailor for that great chart, all have been helpful. I ended up getting a dasmikro unit, USB programer and ESC unit for just over a hundred off Ali express so let's see what happens lol

Thank you
Again

[Shagnifico]

Beier is my favorite, My 2nd favorite is the TK16, it’s non programmable, plug and play comes with a good speaker. Separately sold for tk16 is a slip ring and sister board and gun stabilizer. It’s made by Can Shuo which is heng long so it’s a easy replacement for the heng long boards. Best non programmable tank board imo not sure why it doesn’t get much love. The sound files are Clark sound files. Sound is good and loud if you only use one speaker. I say that because it has two speaker plugs but they’re not separate channels, if you try to use two speakers it sounds a lot worse.

I have used Clark, Tamiya, all the heng long boards, IBU, open panzer, SGS. I don’t recommend Clark. Tamiya dmds are reliable but expensive and they suck.