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I have purchased a Clark TK22 board for my WSN/Torro T34. I have probably not been looking in the right place, but I am unable to find its operating voltage. The tank, like most Torro I think, operates of 9.6 volts as opposed to the 7.2v for HL and Tamiya. Will this voltage kill the board? If I do have to fit a 7.2 volt battery, what effect will this have on the motors?

I've heard people having issues with 7.4v lipo batteries so at 9.6v you probably damage it.

Richard Hi,
As Ian says there have been reports of plus 7.4 LI-POs damaging CLARK Boards,
The suggested solution is to initialise the board using a fully charged NIMH or NICD Battery which appears to "Harden" the board which will then accept the higher output LI-PO Battery's,
And no I havn't tried it.
Shaun.

Also the tank will run on 7.2v although a little slower.

It sounds like the safest option is to replace the battery. Unfortunately this will involve some major surgery I think. The battery box is square and a normal battery will not fit.

Yeah cut battery box out, it’s what I did with mine and it leaves a decent amount of room in side for battery and parts.

Richard Before you do anything drastic with your battery box you might want to view -----
www.componentshop.co.uk
They have an almost infinite range of NI-MH,/NI-CD,/ and LI-PO batteries of all sizes and voltages AND if they don't have on sale your size of battery contact them and they will build you one,
Shaun.

Or just wire in a little and inexpensive voltage regulator to step up or down voltage?

This one just steps up:

I thought Torro/Taigen/HL all run with 7.2 volt batteries??

Torro M16 Half tracks runs on 9.6v, as well as the rebrand WSN (now Torro) which is what this one is.

I am running the Torro M16 on a 7.4 lipo with no problem or loss of performance as far as I can see, but that's more of a toy RC variety.

On the subject of freshly charged lipo on Clark boards, I might be the first one to bring it up with Clark himself, as I blown couple of vol-reg on the Clark board with freshly charged lipos. The problem is that freshly charge lipos can go up over 8v, and Clark's spec is really 7.2v/7.4v.