Heng Long MERKAVA review, build out and field testing.

[Woohoo\o/]

So a buddy sent me this picture and he’s wondering if this printed gadget would work just as well as the legoDEI. I highly doubt it. He wants to try it out. Any thoughts so that I can relay the info to him?

[Rubicon99]

So a buddy sent me this picture and he’s wondering if this printed gadget would work just as well as the legoDEI. I highly doubt it. He wants to try it out. Any thoughts so that I can relay the info to him?

I worked closely on those with JVM3Dconcepts. In fact that is my photo taken during testing.

It does not work anywhere close to a LegoDEI. It did improve the stock HL receiver performance by about 30% but it could not overcome the other problems of the stock receiver.

To put that 30% in perspective. If the stock IR receiver could register a hit at 10ft without the sunshade, with it it could register a hit at 13ft.

The sunshade was just that a shade. It does not fix the inherent issues of "dead zones" aka angles at which when outdoors in sunlight that the stock receiver can't register hits even at close ranges when it should. These "dead zones" are random and very from receiver to receiver. Because of this "from the factory problem" with the IR receiver and people's unrealistic expectations that the shade would somehow magically fix all the problems it was decided not to make them available for sale. JVM just felt they did not want the hassles of explaining this endlessly and being blamed for the poor performance of the receiver that was not theirs. YES this happened when a dozen were given out to various people for preproduction evaluation.

The LegoDEI does not have any of the issues the stock receiver has and is a night and day difference in performance. It takes a toy like IR battle system to something more along the lines of a fun hobby/club grade battle system.

Given the relatively low cost of the LegoDEI it is money well spent when considering the huge improvement it makes. And compared to IR receivers by Tamiya that cost upwards of $100 and can't be used with the stock HL systems, the LegoDEI is a steal.

[tank_me]

And not to mention, the LegoDEI is easily moved from tank to tank so if you have a lot of tanks like me you don't need one for each tank. I can only battle so many of my tanks at a time... :)

[Woohoo\o/]

Guy I REALLY appreciate this info. I’m going to send it to him.