KING TIGER 211,506 S.PZ.ABT,GERONSWEILER,DEC '44

[Rad_Schuhart]

But first of all, Hermann, why do you say the DMD does not work? I never heard about any DMD unit failing so far (but MFU yes)
If I remember correctly with my king tiger DMD, to start running I had first to fully throttle back and forth, and then I was able to drive.

[HERMAN BIX]

Well, being that I am completely retarded when it comes to electronics, the guy that knows these things told me so.........and I have no reason nor smarts to question it...........thats it basically.
Plus the fact its a very old model, and not had any maintenance or care for years.
Unless there is something these units 'do' to stop them working, its done

[HERMAN BIX]

Fuses ??..........is there such a thing in these Tamiya units ?

[HERMAN BIX]

Look out, I'm reading instructions.........
Reset button........flashing diagnostics
Watch for smoke.........

[Ad Lav]

Video or photos Herman?

[HERMAN BIX]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/R-C-Tank-TWIN- ... xy7vJTeG8e

Any advice as to if this thing would work as a suitable replacement for the genuine DMD.?

[tomhugill]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/R-C-Tank-TWIN- ... xy7vJTeG8e

Any advice as to if this thing would work as a suitable replacement for the genuine DMD.?

I'd read that they aren't, I cant see a connection to an mfu or outputs for rotation and elevation.

[HERMAN BIX]

Thanks mate, I read it again and it’s for a T01 unit replacement.
I’m going to have another go at resetting mine just now, even though I was told the reset button is not working.
Worst comes to worst, I will use an IBU in it that I have.
I assume to do so I will need to chop off the TAMIYA plugs and replace them with suitable ones ?

[Rad_Schuhart]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/R-C-Tank-TWIN- ... xy7vJTeG8e

Any advice as to if this thing would work as a suitable replacement for the genuine DMD.?

Thats a scam! Ugly, bulky, expensive and nowhere near to what you need. That does not have controllers for turret functions and no connection to the multifunction unit.

I really would go with aftermarket boards.

And regarding your faulty DMD... Maybe you can send it to somebody for testing, resetting, whatever. If you want I could try to fix it, not going to charge anything just the shipping back to you.

EDIT: yep, Tom said the same, lol.
And yes, you need to replace the plugs...

[HERMAN BIX]

Progress. Followed the system reset process in the manual.
Changed the motor wires around and now I have

- correct forward/reverse & steering as per manual with relevant sounds.
- turret traverse(forgot to check left-left-right-right though!)
- barrel elevation but that works in reverse. I may need to change the polarity on the wires to the new motor. down is up etc.
- machine gun fire sound.
- I cannot get the fire or recoil to work on main gun & with that the battle system wont work I assume.

So, at this moment I have a tank that can drive & rotate turret & elevate barrel, fires it MG & will look ok, but without the main gun & battle unit working I have a Heng Long