My coil conversion on the Taigen Sherman didn't work out so well in the long run. I assume the coil resistance played a large part in making the smoke switch on the MFU in-operable. Had to buy another Taigen MFU. Now to my question:
I decided to try and make the 25mm fan conversion setup like I did for my Henglong Tanks-It works quit well. As we know, Henglong uses a 2 JST connection for the smoke unit. 1 for the heating coil, and 1 for the blower motor. Taigen on the other hand, uses 1 JST connection for both-presumably because its proportional controlled by the speed. So I thought if I simply combine both the fan and the heating coil together, using the stock PCB, then all should be fine. Not so much. Nothing happened. No fan motor spin, nothing. I then checked the resistance of both the factory setup and my rig. The factory Taigen has a resistance of 11.2 Ohm. My rig had a resistance of 1.2 Ohm. So I robbed the little resistor from a spare blower motor and put it on the Taigen PCB. Now both setups are reading 11.2 & 11.0 Ohm resistance....all from 1 JST plug. I figured a home run, but again NOTHING happens. I dont understand WTH is going on here. I hooked the stock Taigen smoke unit back up-works flawless.
The smoke output is LAME on Taigen Tanks-even at full throttle IMO. I'm at a loss as what to do. Anyone have any ideas? Here is what I did. I even made sure the palcement was exact so all 3 screws would line up from underneath.
I decided to try and make the 25mm fan conversion setup like I did for my Henglong Tanks-It works quit well. As we know, Henglong uses a 2 JST connection for the smoke unit. 1 for the heating coil, and 1 for the blower motor. Taigen on the other hand, uses 1 JST connection for both-presumably because its proportional controlled by the speed. So I thought if I simply combine both the fan and the heating coil together, using the stock PCB, then all should be fine. Not so much. Nothing happened. No fan motor spin, nothing. I then checked the resistance of both the factory setup and my rig. The factory Taigen has a resistance of 11.2 Ohm. My rig had a resistance of 1.2 Ohm. So I robbed the little resistor from a spare blower motor and put it on the Taigen PCB. Now both setups are reading 11.2 & 11.0 Ohm resistance....all from 1 JST plug. I figured a home run, but again NOTHING happens. I dont understand WTH is going on here. I hooked the stock Taigen smoke unit back up-works flawless.
The smoke output is LAME on Taigen Tanks-even at full throttle IMO. I'm at a loss as what to do. Anyone have any ideas? Here is what I did. I even made sure the palcement was exact so all 3 screws would line up from underneath.
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