Armortek

I have just brought the new Futaba Radio set here in Australia radio and receiver only. Today when I was looking at the motion packs on the armortek site I noticed that the futaba sets that armortek are selling come with 4 x S3003 servos plus a switch and receiver battery . Do I need these ?????? I thought with the motion packs we only need the radio and receiver . Dale.

Hi Dale

If you have the Late tiger you only need a transmitter and receiver, as it has a built in receiver supply. All other models require a battery or BEC.

None of the Tanks require servos but the wheeled veichles do. I think you'll find Armortek sell the Futaba radio as a complete of the shelf package. Guess they don't want to be left with hundreds of servos. (Could sell them on a well known internet auction site. )

Mick

Thanks Mick . Thats was the answer I was after . I have the early tiger . Because it has taken me two years to save up for the motion pack . I'm going to buy the late tiger motion pack as it should be better and easyer to install .. Dale.

Hello Dale

How are you. I dont get rid of them as i use then to see if the reciever is working correctly when i get a wierd problem or suspect a faulty receiver.As i have had a couple of duff ones in my time.I Allways keep one in my spares box whenever i take my tanks out for a spin or reckie.

Lee

This might seem like a dum question . How do you guys have your futaba 6EX set up ?? EG. forward and revese on right stick plus turning . Then turret turn and elevation on the other . Or do we have both sticks to operate back and forward like a dull dozer. With the new motion packs the control box supplies power to the receiver what happens when the batterys go flat will I lose control of my tank or will it just stop . Dale

Dale,

I think that they way in which people set up their transmitters is a matter of personal preference. Many people like the twin stick approach, often called "Tank Steer" I prefer fwd and rev on the left stick and tun on the right stick. You can set the mixing in the 4QD interface unit by setting the jumper.

I am not exactly sure what will happen as the batteries get flat , it depends on how the ESC's behave with loss of signal because eventually you will demand high enough power from the motors and hence current so that the battery voltage will drop and the receiver will fail to opperate.Either the tank will just stop moving and not respond or in the worst case it will go jumpy. But with the battery charge that low it won't have the power to run off. You may get warning of this with the sound volume dropping.

Gentlemen

The new Armortek control box (which is what we are supplying to Dale) has built in protection. The unit monitors and displays battery voltage and provides first a two stage visual warming light and then auto powers down the tank. The power down threshold is set at 14Volts. At power down both the radio receiver supply and the main tank power are switched of. The system is designed to allocate priority to the regulated 5V radio supply, so even when the battery voltage has dropped to 14V the radio is still receiving full power.

Mark

Mark,

This is certainly a big advance and very useful.