Very impressive indeed.

Chris Malton

On 14/06/2009 11:10, Modena wrote:
>
> and here's another vid of some slope climbing
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE5K43jCPGo
>
>
>
> On Jun 14, 5:45 pm, Modena<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Doug: I forgot to add, I welded bolts across my rear idlers on each
>> side to join them together, and I found that this actually made track
>> throwing worse, it threw a track just by pushing the tank along the
>> ground....needless to say the grinder came out pretty quick smart.
>>
>> Our different findings may be due to the fact that, according to your
>> build pages, your track pads are "a little bit loose" on the chain
>> attachments, whereas mine are actually screwed up tight, in this way I
>> am relying on this tension to aid in keeping that two rows of chain
>> running aligned, maybe joining the rear idlers together removed a
>> crucial bit of "give" in my system which meant it couldn't cope,
>> anyway it seems to be running ok now.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On Jun 14, 5:39 pm, Modena<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> well I bit the bullet and bought a Spektrum DX6i and a BR6000, and I
>>> am very happy about it. The level of control these joysticks give is
>>> just awesome, together with newly revised track tension (I don't know
>>> what I was thinking when I tensioned the track last time when I had
>>> problems) and the Victor 883 ESC's, T067 is driving very nicely now,
>>> here is a vid of some further field trials:
>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoQq9RWol_8
>>
>>> I also bought a "smoker" fogger unit, the type that makes "smoke" from
>>> an ultrasonic thingamebob in water, here's a vid of testing that, it
>>> has proportional fan control through the throttle (elevator) channel,
>>> and came from the UK, have a read of this forum if you're interested
>>> in this contraption:http://modeltugforum.com/index.php?topic=921.0
>>
>>> here is the "smoker" test vid:
>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK-vDz_AwvM
>>
>>> On May 24, 8:34 pm, "Sgt.A.Johnson"
>>
>>> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>> The c6c supports wired pads aswell doesnt it. Because if so you could
>>>> hack and IR onto the cable of an existing ps2 controller to create
>>>> your own wireless. Probably not to reliable in proper lab testing let
>>>> alone combat though.
>>
>>>> On May 24, 4:23 am, Frank Pittelli<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>>>> Modenawrote:
>>>>>> FP: it's a Dreamgear gamepad, red lava glower
>>>>>> Just for reference I have a PS3, and the quality of the genuine Sony
>>>>>> gamepad is still far and away better than any third party unit I've
>>>>>> seen.
>>
>>>>> I have DreamGear wireless, Pelican wireless and Sony wired gamepads, and
>>>>> the Sony are indeed the best ones made.  Too bad they never made a
>>>>> wireless version of the PS2.  The Pelican is also very good and I
>>>>> haven't heard any complaints from others who use them.  The DreamGear is
>>>>> usable (I use it on the Goer), but the joysticks definitely aren't as
>>>>> good as the Pelican.  Of course, it was the cheapest of all 3, so
>>>>> perhaps that's why.
>>
>>>>>          Frank P.
> >


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