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Hi. I decided to take my Tiger 1 out for a spin yesterday for the first time in a few months, and it seems to have developed a problem. When I was driving it, it was fine at first, but soon the commands would 'stick', i.e. I would move the turret, and the sound effect for that would play but nothing would happen, and it wouldn't respond to any other command until after I manually switched the tank off. I thought it was a low battery charge, so I recharged the battery, which indicated that it was almost fully charged. Fair enough thought I, maybe it's the batteries in the transmitter. I changed those this morning, and the same problem developed. So it wasn't the batteries there, thought I, so I put the original batteries back in- then, nothing! Switching the transmitter on results in no LED lighting up at all.

Can anyone help me with this, and explain just what went wrong? I suspect that my transmitter gave up the ghost, which is a shame as I've hardly had a chance to use my tank since I was gifted it. Is this fixable, and would replacing the transmitter solve the problem?

The contacts in the Battery box on Heng Long Transmitters are infamous for their p*ss awful ability to do there job,
Tweak them and try again.
Shaun.

Thanks- I tweaked them, and the LED works now. I still have the 'sticking' problem though, when I start up the tank, any command I give it 'sticks' and won't clear unless I manually switch the tank off. E.G. I tried the MG button, and the MG sound effect wouldn't shut up! The tank won't respond to any movement commands either...

*Update* I had another look at the main battery pack in the tank, and it seems that it does need recharging, and it wasn't connected properly to the charger earlier. It's recharging now, so hopefully full function will be restored...

*Further update* Yep, she works sweet as a nut now!