clark board airsoft problem

[FreakyDude]

usually when a tank fires and continues to fire it is because the wires are shorting or the relay at the back of the airsoft is closed keeping the firing in a closed loop. Something is certainly wrong with the wiring here, I have never heard of the Clark being stuck in this loop before, HL tanks do it all the time.

[lister fiend]

thanks for that.
i'm off to bed now, so won't get a chance to look till 2moz.
cheers
lister

[MichaelC]

Hey lister, I opened up my Pershing last night and check the wiring. The Airsoft/Recoil motor wires are wired to the CN9 plug on the clark board, PIN 3/4. PIN 3 also has the headlight+ and the MG+ on it so it is triple tapped. The micro-switch on the Airsoft/Recoil is connected to PIN 4/5 on CN3 to trigger the cannon sound and the hull recoil. These should be the only connection to the Airsoft/Recoil unit to make it work.

So I assume when you say it just keep firing, you also get the firing sound and the hull recoil as well non-stop ?

[adamlim]

Hi guys , I've just done the wiring of both my tiger1 and Panzer3 . Not only remove and add wire but also have to switch the airsoft and gun elevation wire swap over . Work fine now gun elevation up and down when moving stick up and down position , as for airsoft no problem too activate with sound too as promised form Clark TK22 . But do you'll guys add 2.2 ohn resistors for airsoft and evaluation ? Ive seen the instructions as stated, I did not add the resistor wonder its ok ?

[adamlim]

Mine fire the the round when I switch the airsoft safety ON after that everything works fine for both my tank

[MichaelC]

I never added additional resistors and they are all fine. I noticed that there is one on the safety switch but you can just leave that on.

[lister fiend]

sorry guys, I never did get back to you
I've just sent my boards to clark for repair after I went a wire to far

ooops.
i'll try again when I get them back.
i'm moving over to infra red, so that pesky airsoft won't be a problem for me anymore!

[adamlim]

Yes there's a resistor at the safety swith , so I guess after rewiring not necessarily to add two more resistors every just work fine ...

[adamlim]

I guess to let my friends know abt the rewiring . I never change to 4p connector but I use back the 3p one , push it with a smsll screw driver n pull the the pin with cable out swap over next for the added wire I solder it directly followed on the instructions.
For Panzer3 much simple added wire goes directly at the correct place at the 8pin board solder it, for the rest have to swap n resolder .

[adamlim]

I guess to let my friends know abt the rewiring . I never change to 4p connector but I use back the 3p one , push it with a smsll screw driver n pull the the pin with cable out swap over next for the added wire I solder it directly followed on the instructions.
For Panzer3 much simple added wire goes directly at the correct place at the 8pin board solder it, for the rest have to swap n resolder .