Ludwig/Taigen SU-152 (early production)

[c.rainford73]

Big fan of the exhaust system with the enclosed baffle too cool!

[Raminator]

Very impressive on many levels. The interior layout is very well done. Does each speaker serve a separate sound card or are both in tandem on one card ?

I'm running a TPA amplifier on the IBU2, which lets you play engine sounds from one speaker and weapon sounds from the other (with independent volume adjustment for each). It's impressive how much of a difference it makes, being able to have a more directional soundscape; the gunfire is much louder from in front of the tank, while the engine sounds are more pronounced and clearer from behind.

[Raminator]

Been awhile since I've made any progress, too many days over 40° (up to 44° twice!) and our apartment isn't air conditioned. My workbench catches full afternoon/evening sun, too.

The weather's been a lot more favourable this weekend, so I broke out the soldering iron to get the Tarr working. What I expected to be a 30-minute job ended up taking over four hours. To cut a long story short, the voltage step-up was causing the heater element to get so hot it re-melted the solder joints! I ended up running the heater element directly off the battery instead, and it works fine.

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So for some reason my 12 V Tarr wants to run on 7.4 V, and my 7.4 V Tarr wants to run on 12 V. Well whatever, they both work now I guess.

[lmcq11]

Fantastic. My poor SU-152 rendition will soon return to factory for a complete overhaul along these lines. Wish i had seen such build 2 years ago...

[c.rainford73]

Been awhile since I've made any progress, too many days over 40° (up to 44° twice!) and our apartment isn't air conditioned. My workbench catches full afternoon/evening sun, too.

The weather's been a lot more favourable this weekend, so I broke out the soldering iron to get the Tarr working. What I expected to be a 30-minute job ended up taking over four hours. To cut a long story short, the voltage step-up was causing the heater element to get so hot it re-melted the solder joints! I ended up running the heater element directly off the battery instead, and it works fine.

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So for some reason my 12 V Tarr wants to run on 7.4 V, and my 7.4 V Tarr wants to run on 12 V. Well whatever, they both work now I guess.

Looking good! Where did you source those lovely exhaust for your Build? I could use a set for my kv-2. Smoking looks excellent

[wibblywobbly]

Hell, they always look good in the WW2 pics, but seeing it in the flesh and knowing how big the KV hull is, that thing is huge! Absolutely love it, the best looking piece of Russian armour by a long chalk. Super neat internals, keep the pics coming.

[philipat]

Awesome build!

[jackalope]

Where'd you find that conversion kit?

[PainlessWolf]

Raminator,
These are the details in a build that will keep a tank running and amazing folks for years. Excellently done, Doc.
regards,
Painless

[Jake79]

Damn you get a lot of smoke coming out of those exhaust's Ram. Did you change any of the settings on the SD card for the smoker? I can barely see the smoke coming out of my Kv.