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Re: Build Time! M1a2 Sep V3 AUS
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 1:28 am
by tankme
Jib wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:01 pm
You’ll also need a motor to servo control board (I can’t remember what it’s actual name is, but that’s the jist of it) for the CITV motor so you can plug it into the servo port on the TK7.1
Since its a PWM connection and you have a motor, you can install a small ESC (Electronic speed controller). The ESC would control the CITV motor using the extra servo channel on the TK7.1. That's what I'll be doing on my M60A2 to move the commander's cupola as it uses a small motor instead of a servo. The ESC will for all purposes be changing the brushed motor into a servo.
Re: Build Time! M1a2 Sep V3 AUS
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 2:11 am
by Jib
Yes that’s it’s! it’s just a really tiny ESC. Then I had to learn that an ESC is not the same as a servo, because the ESC doesn’t use positional information like a servo does. This was an issue for me when I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t use an ESC for something that specifically called for a servo, in my case this was to control gun elevation.