My personalroad trip with Heng Long tanks
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 3:20 pm
Hello to all enthusiasts,
I did follow this forum every now and then, but as the closures due to tha pandemic seems to continue, I decided to be a member. I really learned a lot from this forum.
Actually, I am a retired materials engineer but still lecturing part time in a University in Istanbul. In order to keep myself busy,I decided to get involved with RC tanks. I am accustomed to building off road RC vehicles, but I spared my final off road vehicle for myself and gave all others to nephews and cousins.
My first choice for an RC tank was a HengLong Tiger 1, and ohh boy. I was very upset with the quality of almost every component and I started upgrading. I bought a Taigen lower hull, then a Taigen complete turret, then TK 6.1S and several additional parts.I have not calculated the sum of money I spent but easily I may say 4 or 5 times the cost of Tiger 1.
When I thought I was done with the Tiger 1, I decided to buy a second tank in the light of lessons learned from 1st experience.
I decided for a Torro Leopard 2A6 pro version. I estimated it will be much cheaper if the tank arrived with most available options. I was correct except one issue, the Taigen V3 mainboard. Just trying to learn more about the tank I made very small runs indoors.
Within the first week, the turret stopped turning left/right and the airsoft stopped shooting. I immediately informed Torro and speaking frankly they immediately shipped a new V3 and an airsoft unit, free of charge. Before the replacement parts arrived, I fixed the airsoft myself (a broken solder on the motor).
Upon arrival of the parts, I replaced the V3 MFU with the new one (and in the meantime I ordered a flysky transmitter/receiver 10 ch). As the stock transmitter is very limited and basic, I planned to change for a more capable control system.
The second V3 board never binded to the new transmitter, so I went back to the stock transmitter. Guess what,same problem OCCURED with the second V3 MFU.
Currently, I am running the tank with TK 6.1S from Henglong and trying to understand which option among IBU,CLARK,EIMOD and ASP will be technically sufficient and cheaper.
There are several comments regarding the selection among these boards, but indeed it is not easy. But my initial goal is to control all the movements of the barrel and the turret by servo motors, also control the onboard camera direction. And finally improve the airsoft in order to blink some cans in the garden.
Any input for the selection and price of the MFU's will be appreciated.
I did follow this forum every now and then, but as the closures due to tha pandemic seems to continue, I decided to be a member. I really learned a lot from this forum.
Actually, I am a retired materials engineer but still lecturing part time in a University in Istanbul. In order to keep myself busy,I decided to get involved with RC tanks. I am accustomed to building off road RC vehicles, but I spared my final off road vehicle for myself and gave all others to nephews and cousins.
My first choice for an RC tank was a HengLong Tiger 1, and ohh boy. I was very upset with the quality of almost every component and I started upgrading. I bought a Taigen lower hull, then a Taigen complete turret, then TK 6.1S and several additional parts.I have not calculated the sum of money I spent but easily I may say 4 or 5 times the cost of Tiger 1.
When I thought I was done with the Tiger 1, I decided to buy a second tank in the light of lessons learned from 1st experience.
I decided for a Torro Leopard 2A6 pro version. I estimated it will be much cheaper if the tank arrived with most available options. I was correct except one issue, the Taigen V3 mainboard. Just trying to learn more about the tank I made very small runs indoors.
Within the first week, the turret stopped turning left/right and the airsoft stopped shooting. I immediately informed Torro and speaking frankly they immediately shipped a new V3 and an airsoft unit, free of charge. Before the replacement parts arrived, I fixed the airsoft myself (a broken solder on the motor).
Upon arrival of the parts, I replaced the V3 MFU with the new one (and in the meantime I ordered a flysky transmitter/receiver 10 ch). As the stock transmitter is very limited and basic, I planned to change for a more capable control system.
The second V3 board never binded to the new transmitter, so I went back to the stock transmitter. Guess what,same problem OCCURED with the second V3 MFU.
Currently, I am running the tank with TK 6.1S from Henglong and trying to understand which option among IBU,CLARK,EIMOD and ASP will be technically sufficient and cheaper.
There are several comments regarding the selection among these boards, but indeed it is not easy. But my initial goal is to control all the movements of the barrel and the turret by servo motors, also control the onboard camera direction. And finally improve the airsoft in order to blink some cans in the garden.
Any input for the selection and price of the MFU's will be appreciated.