My Pershing

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My Pershing
Topic Started: May 23 2006, 08:41 PM (238 Views)
sig p232	May 23 2006, 08:41 PM Post #1
Swayed by the Trax Posts: 9 Group: Member Member #84 Joined: May 23, 2006	I got mine less then 24 hours ago from mato toys and the thing already died. THe lights flash, then I fire it up and nothing. I drove it all of ten feet. Turned it off, pulled the battery, turned off the smoke and now it allows me to fire it up, but does nothing else. Damn it! Hopefully they get me a solution soon. Nate



outcastrc	May 24 2006, 04:15 AM Post #2
Administrator Posts: 1,150 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: December 13, 2005	Check the wiring. When I took my pershing apart one of the wires came off the board a little too easy. Makes you wonder what they use for solder.



sig p232	May 28 2006, 09:12 PM Post #3
Swayed by the Trax Posts: 9 Group: Member Member #84 Joined: May 23, 2006	So Mato is sending out new stuff to fix the tank, but I am highly irritated with this whole situation, so I am taking matters into my own hands. First, on ebay you can pick up tamiya ESCs for about $20 each. So I am getting 2 of these. They are forward reverse. Next, I am going to connect the turret rotation to a standard msc, just to handle the left and right movement. The Up/down action can be accomplished using a micro switch, servo, and zener diode. The same is true with the same is true with the firing mechanism. I am going to just wire it to a 6 channel radio and call it good. The pershing does appear to have a great chassis, I just wish that I would have said "forget the electrics, just send the chassis." But what can you do. More pics when the ESCs get here. Nate



Jackson	May 29 2006, 07:34 PM Post #4
EV-less Posts: 94 Group: Family Member #3 Joined: December 13, 2005	I am very interested to see this Tamiya ESC conversion. Please post pictures of your progress! Thanks!



sig p232	Jun 6 2006, 08:56 PM Post #5
Swayed by the Trax Posts: 9 Group: Member Member #84 Joined: May 23, 2006	I will have to get you all some pics of the guts of the tank, but I did do the tamiya conversion. I have 2 of the TEU speed controllers for the drive motors and then I used some beefy servo boards to control the turret up/down, left/right, and fire mechanism. The entire build was fairly straight forward and now this thing runs as good as my old tamiya. I need a few more mods: 1. I need to install an LED in the bb tank so that I can fire the glow in the dark bbs and have them glow 2. I picked up a high power laser pointer for $7 the I am going to wire into the firing circuit so that I can aim a little better. Nate



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