Don't see how this would work. You would need a proportional positioning control for actuating the scooter controllers. The drive motors on the Henlong tanks are forward/reverse with no positioning, but your on an interesting track though. You can expand upon the idea a bit by deleting the drive motors from the 1:16 scale model altogether and wire the motor leads into external h-bridges which would then in-turn drive the larger motors. The Simple H-Bridge from Robot Power would work http://www.robotpower.com/products/simple-h_info.html. Or you could make your own h-bridges from discrete components.
In essence you are using the radio control system from the little tank to drive current amplifiers (the h-bridges) to power the larger motors on the big tank. Steve Tyng On May 16, 5:35 pm, Weston <[email protected]> wrote: > I seen there are 1/16 model tanks that operate like a real tank, and > shoot airsoft BBs. However, they are too small to use. I was thinking > about ripping the inside of one of them out, and using it as part of > the tank. Not as is, but having the electric motors that power the > 1/16 model electric motor turn a hand grip throttle from an electric > scooter (with some major smallification), which in turn give the > electric motors (most likely electric scooter motors) speed control. > > For turret rotation and elevation, I could do the same thing, or use a > high torque, low speed motor and have a relay where the 1/16th scale > rotation mechanism was. For shooting the paintball gun, I could > replace the airsoft gun parts with a servo to trigger the gun. > > I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts about this, or has > even tried it. If I do end up doing this, and it is successful, I have > the perfect call sign for the tank...Tankenstien. If it does not work, > I would have wasted some time/money on it, but then I would already > have the motors and paintball marker set in the tank, along with it > being built. > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -- 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
