Tank Modellbau hull machine gun for Heng Long KV1

[daisycutter]

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anyone fitted one of these? i cant quite work out how to fit this

[daisycutter]

hmm my post moved
any ideas people

[Ex_Pat_Tanker]

Its on my wish list...
Do you want help with the electrical side, or just 'how on earth does this fit..?'
Electrically I would have thought it would have replaced the existing hull mg LED

[daisycutter]

mainly electrical,i know what im doing on the fitting now it is fairly easy going from real photos rather than the product photos(needs to be higher up the mantlet)

questions:
can i run two mgs of the same circit,the turret rear+hull i have two guns if not one will have to be static

do these need resistors? the instructions warn about using them but dont supply any or give any other info

how far can fibre optic cable be bent? the turret rear mg dosent give much room to spare inside because of the elevation gearbox even the stock mg/led is tight

[Ex_Pat_Tanker]

ok, as a rule you can wire 2 LED's in parallel to the HL MG output - the current gets split so no worries about blowing LED's. I think the warning is just for the terminally stupid, who would hook an LED to a raw battery output...

fibre optic doesn't bend to well, better to counterbore the back of the MG and insert the LED up against a short fibre, rather than light it remotely.
(If thats what you were intending?)
HTH
Mart

[shotgun]

I just put one in my Hl KV-2 early vs. I am building. I just cut the lead wires from the old gun and soldered the new gun wires in place. And then cut the fiber optic to fit the gun after I installed it. Works great and I am new to this hobby and do not have the skill sets that many on this forum have and a moron when it come to the electronics. Hard part was drilling out the old gun and not making a mess of it. Shotgun