Help Request - Taigen Tiger 1 not binding
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 9:51 pm
I'm not sure if this should go here or in an electronics section, if it is in the wrong place maybe a helpful mod will move it.
Having retired and getting bored, and then going straight into lockdown-level of boredom, my older brother ordered the only Taigen Tiger 1 kit he could find anywhere, which was from a shop in Germany. Then his health took a major downturn. During lockdown he's lost 75% of his vision, had some toes amputated, and been diagnosed with chronic kidney failure and leukaemia. He also spent 7 weeks in hospital but amazingly came out COVID free.
The tank is now assembled. When it is turned on it goes through the expected boot sequence: there's a click from the speaker, one red flash from the machine gun, the front LED lights blink, and the CPU fan spins. All that seems to be the expected responses, so that makes us think the tank itself is basically OK.
The instructions say to turn on the controller very quickly after the tank is powered on, and to hold in the machine gun button. The controller's red light blinks rapidly, as expected. Soon the transmitter's red LED stops flashing, as if it has found and bound with the tank. Moving the left-hand toggle switch towards the operator is supposed to start the tank, but nothing happens. The tank stays in the same state, with flashing front lights.
I've read the threads here about other people having difficulties binding controllers to tanks, but none of them have helped. All batteries are fully charged or brand-new purchases. There were no batteries or charger in the kit, they've been purchased separately.
What we've found is the controller goes through the flashing LED / steady LED sequence even if the tank isn't powered on. So I suspect the controller is at fault. But I have no way of verifying this.
What I'm hoping is that someone with a Taigen Tank using the newest 2.4GHz controller (the one with a machine gun push button and the right-hand toggle switch that used to be the machine gun on/off now controls the smoke unit) can give us some assistance. The chap in Germany is trying to help but we can't do any fault-finding or diagnostics because we have no other RC equipment. My thinking is, if we can temporarily bind someone else's controller to it, we'll know the fault lies in our controller. We can then take that up with the shop in Germany. If it doesn't work, the fault obviously resides within the electronics in the tank and we can proceed on that front.
I'm in North East Wales but happy to travel. I really need my brother to see this thing moving. If anyone is in a position to help with this I'd be very, very grateful, as would my brother. Seeing the tank move will mean a huge amount to him.
Fingers crossed,
Dave.
Having retired and getting bored, and then going straight into lockdown-level of boredom, my older brother ordered the only Taigen Tiger 1 kit he could find anywhere, which was from a shop in Germany. Then his health took a major downturn. During lockdown he's lost 75% of his vision, had some toes amputated, and been diagnosed with chronic kidney failure and leukaemia. He also spent 7 weeks in hospital but amazingly came out COVID free.
The tank is now assembled. When it is turned on it goes through the expected boot sequence: there's a click from the speaker, one red flash from the machine gun, the front LED lights blink, and the CPU fan spins. All that seems to be the expected responses, so that makes us think the tank itself is basically OK.
The instructions say to turn on the controller very quickly after the tank is powered on, and to hold in the machine gun button. The controller's red light blinks rapidly, as expected. Soon the transmitter's red LED stops flashing, as if it has found and bound with the tank. Moving the left-hand toggle switch towards the operator is supposed to start the tank, but nothing happens. The tank stays in the same state, with flashing front lights.
I've read the threads here about other people having difficulties binding controllers to tanks, but none of them have helped. All batteries are fully charged or brand-new purchases. There were no batteries or charger in the kit, they've been purchased separately.
What we've found is the controller goes through the flashing LED / steady LED sequence even if the tank isn't powered on. So I suspect the controller is at fault. But I have no way of verifying this.
What I'm hoping is that someone with a Taigen Tank using the newest 2.4GHz controller (the one with a machine gun push button and the right-hand toggle switch that used to be the machine gun on/off now controls the smoke unit) can give us some assistance. The chap in Germany is trying to help but we can't do any fault-finding or diagnostics because we have no other RC equipment. My thinking is, if we can temporarily bind someone else's controller to it, we'll know the fault lies in our controller. We can then take that up with the shop in Germany. If it doesn't work, the fault obviously resides within the electronics in the tank and we can proceed on that front.
I'm in North East Wales but happy to travel. I really need my brother to see this thing moving. If anyone is in a position to help with this I'd be very, very grateful, as would my brother. Seeing the tank move will mean a huge amount to him.
Fingers crossed,
Dave.
Hello,