Steves winstones MG

Dale jordan · Post by **Dale jordan** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:45 pm

Can someone Please tell me how Steves MG with the 3V light hooks up to armorteks new sound unit what plug to I need etc . Dale

Paul Morris · Post by **Paul Morris** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:20 am

Hello Dale.

Somewhere on the forum I think I have posted this along with someone else, but here you go first off I have not been able to get the fitted lightbulb to work so you need to remove that and replace with an ultrabright LED then chop one end of a servo extension lead and feed the wires through the M.G. this is a bit of a bugger to do and you may find you need to take the gun apart and replace the main steel tube that goes through the centre as its too tight and not enough material at one end to drill out on the lathe at least thats what I found, then solder the leads to the led and pull back into position with the bulb slightly protruding I find best same as you would on a Tamiya model then feed the wires back through to the sound module where you will see that Mark has fitted a very handy socket for the servo lead to plug into.
All the above sounds a faff but you will see its easy.
Any bother give me a shout and I will always help where I can.
Cheers Paul

steve winstone · Post by **steve winstone** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:05 am

Hi Dale & Paul,

I have now fitted a 3V bulb instead of 12V the steel inner barrel is now drilled out to 2mm, and this should enable you to fit the larger wire if you need to fit the LED bulb.

Regards
Steve

Paul Morris · Post by **Paul Morris** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:12 am

Hi Steve.
Thats brilliant news, I never liked taking your barrels apart as I was always worried about losing a piece in my very tidy shed

lol
Cheers Paul

Richie Wignall · Post by **Richie Wignall** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:05 pm

Hi Steve & Dale

Great news on the MG

Dale

Just plugs into Thomas's sound card, (plug 6) universal onboard outputs(optional) ether orange to the top or brown for muzzle or mg flash.

i posted this on here a couple of years ago. very easy mate.
Just like Armorteks new units, just plug and play, in fact fool proof

.

Richie wiggytronics

r-wignall@sky.com

01772460902

Dale jordan · Post by **Dale jordan** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:00 pm

Thanks everyone I've found your old post ... I'm going to get my stuff sent out today from Steve .. so just to clear one thing up ,will the bulb in steves MG work but it just wont be bright enough ??? Dale

http://www.armortek.co.uk/forum/viewtop ... c&start=30

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:23 am

Dale, how is the MG sound/flashing function going?
With the new Amplifier Module & Auxiliary Module, is the way of wire-connection still the same to make the MG sound synchronized with the flashing bulb?

Any expert tankerâ€™s advice will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
L Chang

Richie Wignall · Post by **Richie Wignall** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 4:30 am

Chang pm sent

Richie

Dale jordan · Post by **Dale jordan** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:15 am

Help Richie and Paul . Because I'm real bad at this stuff , how does this look ? I tried it today and nothing happen is this the right way around ? do I have to reprogram something ?? .... Dale

Richie Wignall · Post by **Richie Wignall** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:26 pm

Hi Dale

Try selecting muzzle flash, does it work? if so spin it round again, then it will be mg flash.

Richie

Post by **Armortek** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:49 pm

Hi Dale

I believe that the bulbs that Steve supplies are LEDs. If so, they polarity specific. Try reversing your connections to the bulb itself.

Mark

Richie Wignall · Post by **Richie Wignall** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:04 pm

Hi Guys

Is it a buld or LED? i have tried bulbs before and they didnt work on the sound card, i dilled out to fit a 3mm super brite LED instead, and works great. if you dont want to drill it try fibre optic cable insert, works well too.

So Dale check, i bet its the bulb one.

Allso on Thomas TBS5 boards you just spin the servo cable plug round for muzzle & MG flash, it will also run 2 MG LED'S aswell.
LEDS i use below, cheap as chips

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

Below is two of Steves lovely MG's with the LED's fitted.

Hope this helps

Richie

Richie Wignall · Post by **Richie Wignall** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:25 pm

Hi Guys

If any one is struggling and wants a lead making up please contact me. Â£8 +Â£1 p+p. around a 1mtr long cable.

Richie

P.S DONT NOT SOLDER, WHEN IT IS STILL CONNECTED TO THE SOUND MODULE.

Richie Wignall · Post by **Richie Wignall** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:50 pm

Hi Dale

Any luck?

Richie Wiggytronics

r-wignall@sky.com

Dale jordan · Post by **Dale jordan** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:01 pm

Hi Richie . I've been all over town can't find any 3mm LED'S Also can't find any on e bay Australia . So it looks like I'll have to order them from your link ... I'm looking forward to having the flash working ... Dale