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found a few old photos of my first tank build in 2008,mods 3to1metal gear boxs,small fan fitted to smoke unit,home built track adjusters, fan fitted for rx13 board,gear box covers

I like the gearbox guards,it seems the smoker fan is wired for single speed operation? Blake

hi saxondog,
at the time of this build i did not know any thing about heng long tanks ,just removed the piston and motor and replaced with fan,gearbox guards made from a lager tin had to drink a 4 pack of lager so i had plenty of cans to work with

hi, saxondog if i wire the fan up to a drive motor will it work with the speed of the motor

No,it will not.You would have to have a series of diodes for when the current changes direction I.E.Forward or Reverse.Now here's the good news their will be a new,reliable fan operated smoker avaiable in the next few weeks,and if you want to keep you H/L unit we will have the small board so you can run the fan from one motor,also a replacment element that works much better.I will be posting this smoker in the coming days.Do you live in the UK? If so Dave may be handling the smokers for UK members.It should be reasonable and last much longer.I will keep you updated.Cheers Blake

I forgot to mention,drink four more and make me a set of the cool gearbox covers.To bad the shipping cost would be about 24 cans of good beer.I drink Killians Red when I do drink,always have liked the darker Irish beer.Drank one the other night because we hit the 500 member mark,seemed the right thing to do. Cheers Blake

hi thanks for your reply,would be nice if dave sold them over here.

Hi mate, sorry to ask a probably obvios question, but i've just fitted smoke and sound to one of my old tanks, identical boards to your photo, just noticed one wire come loose during swapover, it's the furthest one of the three off the switch (red like on yours and now i see sposed to go to receiver board, by the black marker squigle on bottom left), can't quite make out from photo if it supposed to be attached to very bottom left component or the next solder up, if you could tell me or stick an overhead photo on, would be v.much appreciated as can't find a wiring diagram anywhere on internet at mo, cheers fella.

hi jon,is this what you want