I will bring it on the battle day and you can look at the set.
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Ah you got the LA Craigslist one. Nice. I hope you don’t plan to strip it down and repaint it. That model had a good price tag on it too.RC tank parts and accessories I make
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Very good. Great tanks and so sad they discontinued them. You know I have several of those.RC tank parts and accessories I make
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The Tamiya battle unit base arrived yesterday. I installed it along with the LegoDEI Clark IR receiver and the emitter. Since the flash unit is inside the barrel, I used the IR emitter from another Tamiya tank and attached it on top of the barrel. I added the remaining accessories that the previous owner did not put on. I will touch up whatever that is needed later. Everything was functioning accordingly. It is battle ready.
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You can engineer a tube into the gun sight hole next to the main gun in the mantlet so that you do not need the fake mount on top of the gun.RC tank parts and accessories I make
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Originally posted by DavidN View PostThe Tamiya battle unit base arrived yesterday. I installed it along with the LegoDEI Clark IR receiver and the emitter. Since the flash unit is inside the barrel, I used the IR emitter from another Tamiya tank and attached it on top of the barrel. I added the remaining accessories that the previous owner did not put on. I will touch up whatever that is needed later. Everything was functioning accordingly. It is battle ready.
The issue is believed to come from the new brighter LEDs now used and their added power draw. The DMD/MFU can read this as a malfunction and default to “test mode”.
Again just something to be aware could and does happen during battles.
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I noticed that after the tank got shot, if its speed slowed down and the engine sound went into the damage mode, then everything was functioning correctly. The tank will be knocked out in the set number of hits according tho the type of tank. If it keeps flashing the same way after the hit without the damaging sound, then it is in the "test mode".
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Originally posted by RichJohnson View PostYou can engineer a tube into the gun sight hole next to the main gun in the mantlet so that you do not need the fake mount on top of the gun.
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Originally posted by DavidN View PostI noticed that after the tank got shot, if its speed slowed down and the engine sound went into the damage mode, then everything was functioning correctly. The tank will be knocked out in the set number of hits according tho the type of tank. If it keeps flashing the same way after the hit without the damaging sound, then it is in the "test mode".
The fault does not always happen and a tank can work fine for a number of battle cycles, but it does happen often enough to be aware of and keep a watch out for it. Once it happens the tank will keep defaulting to “test mode” even after being normally reset.
Disconnecting the battery for a short time seems to work at effecting a full reset, but this takes time.
For this reason I don’t normally use or recommend the LegoDEI receivers in older DMD/MFU tanks. They work great in the new DMD systems like those in the Leopard 2, Abrams, Type10, M551 and Centurion.
Again just be aware that you could have the issue and if you see it come up how to deal with it.
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