Hello Nicolas and welcome aboard.
When I started I had no idea of electronics. This forum was very helpful.
There are three major chapters in your project:
1. Mechanical (building the hull, tracks, make wheels fit your scale, strong
drive axles, suspensions)
2. Electrics (motors, batteries, fuses, cooling fans)
3. Electronics (RC systems, speed controller, batteries for the RC system,
market available wiring and leads)
I would say that the recipe is more or less tested here and is based on the
experience gained from 70 different tanks, plus all the tanks that should be
in the Wall of Shame, and more scratch built tank models that are not in
scale 1:6 .
Choose a tank.
See if the M01 motors fit in the hull of your tank, in scale 1:6.
http://www.anvilus.com/
They cost about $50 each plus shipping and they are a bargein. There is a
dimensioned plan in anvilus' website.
Go to the How- to articles and see a track system of your choice.
A Sabertooth speed controller with tank steering will cost you about $ 100.
The wiring - from batteries to motors and so forth - you build it yourself .
The remote control system you buy for about $ 80-100, to start with.
This will come at the last stages of the project.
Have fun!
Chrys (trying to preach more people into this madness)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas" <[email protected]>
To: "R/C Tank Combat" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 3:45 AM
Subject: [TANKS] Re: Help me
Hello excuse me for the delay in responding. I've been a little busy.
But first, thank you all for responding and for the tips. Second, I am
Brazilian (my location on this map: http://www.rctankcombat.com/map/),
and I want to help spread the hobby here in my region because I do not
know anyone who practices. As for tanks,I know much about it. But to
return to electronica, which is the control circuit that goes in the
tank, I mean, you build or buy?
Thanks again.
Ps: I do not want to be thick, if I sound like I'm being rude, sorry,
(not on purpose) because I am improving my English.
On 27 maio, 08:50, Phil <[email protected]> wrote:
My tank weighs 18-20 kg or so and is powered by 2 De Walt right-angle
drill motors. The battery is 12V 7ah. A lot of you are using 12 or 24
V 350W motors and 18ah batteries and all-steel construction and up to
150 lbs in overall weight; in which case you need a heavier-rated
speed controller.
Probably the best advice I can give is to look at the various tanks
that have been built and use one as a rough template. My Hetzer
started life based on Joe Somner's, on the basis that it was a simple
and attractive build, though it's probably difficult to tell now.
A lot of people look at our website and think "that looks fun" (it is)
and then get put off by the sheer amount of faff involved and decide
to do somthing a bit simpler, like splitting the atom or solving the
Meaning of Life. The sensible advice of course is to start simple with
an armoured car or artillery piece and work up to a tank, but
obviously NO-ONE does that as everyone wants to build a great big tank
and why not? If you start with the turret systems it can be an
artillery piece, or if you start with the motive power it can be a
support vehicle, and you can get in the battle that way.
You still out there Nicholas?
Phil
On May 26, 1:32 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> Phil, the speed controller you use is sometimes considered light
> weight, so
> you might want to tell him about the motors you are using with it and
> how
> you are keeping them from over heating completely
> Chris,
> _Odyssey Slipways_ (http://hometown.aol.com/odysseyslipways/index.html)
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