Options past heng long electronics

[10 horse mclaren]

HI
I have come to the conclusion that if im going to persue this as a hobby with my son I have to be able to find a way to get rid of the Hl electronics side of it. I have looked at the Elmod bits and another set up, but both seem to offer more to teh IR tank battle side of things than I want.
In reality all I am looking for is a way to use a decent duel speed controler with a good quality radio set up. Maybe something from Futaba or one of the other good makes.

After ordering a few bits of HL electronics from Ebay and being ripped off, and then finding the bits i have been sent dont work I see this as the only option.
For teh time i am going to fit another RX18 unit and reciever from Forgebear (I wish I had found him earlier!). BUt later on I will want to make the move to decent electronics.

Ill take the chance and plug Forgebear one more time, GOOD GUY TO DEAL WITH.


Any ideas welcome.

Cheers

[[ICE]monkey]

hi the elmod units are great , but dearer then hl and the ir side is seperate so you could go that route, or for around the same money you could get that tamiya dmd/mfu units

[971wright]

Hi As Ice as pointed out both Tamiya and el-mod are very good ,you dont have to buy the I.R. stuff for either ,but if you later wanted to go to a meeting, then you could add the I.R. which is on both Types it is quite easy to retro-fit.

regards pete

[Johnf]

I use elmod and have no IR fitted. I also use futaba 7c. Expensive but works really well and sounds great with Heng Long. If doing another 1/16 tank I will probably try a Tamiya as the upgrades to the Heng Long cost too much compared to the original cost of tank.