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Hi this might be a daft question. I have some taigen steel gearboxes in my niece's Jagdpanther and just spent half the afternoon fitting some taigen 380 motors I have. Since I've fitted them the tank now goes left when going right and vice versa. I checked the wires are in the right plugs on the circuit board n they are if I switch them it goes backwards instead of forward. The question is before I have to strip them down again theirs not a left and righthand motor is their. Having a bad eye at the moment it's hard to locate the screws. But is got me puzzled. It worked fine before I changed them
Cheers Lee

Greetings Spinwell....just as a curious troubleshoot... have you tried switching the motors ? could be when you installed them you put the right motor on the left side ....and the right motor on the left side....think the resistor controls direction

ALPHA

Thanks Alpha I thought that might be the case but with having trouble seeing at the moment I didn't fancy taking them apart again. Looks like I will have to try this. What a ba ball ache taking your sight for granted everyday and when you need to mess about with small screws it take an age
Thanks again Lee

spinwell.123 wrote:Thanks Alpha I thought that might be the case but with having trouble seeing at the moment I didn't fancy taking them apart again. Looks like I will have to try this. What a ba ball ache taking your sight for granted everyday and when you need to mess about with small screws it take an age
Thanks again Lee

Yeah...I know how you feel...especially since it's only a troubleshoot...thing is the motors are pretty much all you touched...my thinking is that Taigen has them prioritized

Good Luck spinwell

ALPHA

Well I tried swapping the motors round and I'm afraid it's made no difference. Back to the drawing board
Thanks Lee

it may be me are the wires solder the right way round on the motors

They came already soldered on but I'm no expert but forward n backwards are fine it left n right that are wrong wouldn't swapping the wires round affect forward n backwards
Thanks Lee

hi what i meant to say was try and swap the plugs over if that makes the gears run the wrong way like forward is back and back is forward then you will need to swap the poles over ie swap the wire round on the motors that should do it

Hi forward n backwards are fine it's left n right that are mixed up. If I swap the wires round then the steering is correct n forward n backwards are mixed up
Thanks Lee