The best and cheapest answer is, scale model railroad tracks. Hobby stores sell flex rail in lengths of 3 feet and they are very flexible, Even more so when you take the rails off the plastic.
You can use one rail as your common ground like on a car and for every device you want to power you would need a separate rail to carry the current through. If you own a rotozip/dremel/router you can make notches in your turret ring to seat these in to. On the turret side all you would need to make is small springy contacts that touch the rail as soon as the turret is on. You could make these out of thin sheet copper that hobby stores sell. If you dont want to do this then you can make round notches around the turret ring and use a copper wire like the type that ground a house. wont be as neat looking but if you do a good job it should work. I will be doing this with my King Tiger. Here is an example of what flex rail looks like. http://www.dallasmodelworks.com/products/atlas/accessories/150-500.gif On Feb 2, 12:22 pm, [email protected] wrote: > Just let the wires twist. How many times are you going rotate in the same > direction. The wires going too the turret are small gauge and can be twisted > many time with no problems. > > Will Montgomery > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Malton <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 3:52 am > Subject: [TANKS] Re: Turret traversing - circular electrical contacts > > It makes perfect sense to me. > > I know exactly what you want to do, it's just a question of how. I > think what you'd need is a circle of metal all the way around for each > connection you want to make, and then some kind of electrically > connected wheel that rides on these. You'd actually want 3 wheels on > each. With careful measuring etc, it can be done, but to be honest, > > I've never head an issue with twisted wires yet, but go for it if you > want to. It'd be nice to see it working! > > Chris > > Modena wrote: > > Has anyone built/used/found some kind of circular electrical contact > > solution for turrets? The idea being that to get electrical > > connectivity from the hull to the turret, and still be able to turn > > 360 degrees all day long, I need to get electrical contacts through > > some kind of circular connection. > > > This is rather than using wires which will get twisted by turret > > rotation. I realise that most of the time turrets are never going to > > get rotated enough to worry to much about twisted wires, but it would > > be nice not to have to worry about it at all and just be able to turn > > around and around without hinderance. > > > I don't think I explained that very well, but hopefully it makes > > sense :) > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
