Using some rigid packing foam as a base so the electronics don't touch the metal tin. Did a bit of car stereo extras trick screw stuff to the carpet and hide wires through to carpet and underneath, well also used glue as well.
Added volume control, on/off switch and on indicator at the back
And finally added some more rigid foam under the turret to stop wires getting caught up in the turret ring gear.
So just needs painting now. Think I give back to Mark to paint as he's tanks are better finished than mine.
Ian.
Statistics: Posted by Tankbear — Wed May 01, 2013 6:27 am
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I'm sending you a MAKO2 PM me your address - no one should have to use those ancient MAKO boards. The M2 has separate outs for the LEDs and the signal back to the RX18. It also has a much better LED flash routine - the number of flashes increase with increasing number of hits.
Cheers
KG
Statistics: Posted by Phyrephish — Mon Apr 29, 2013 7:04 am
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Ian.
Statistics: Posted by Tankbear — Mon Apr 29, 2013 3:08 am
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Tried with 3mm red LED and works. So next will try keeping the 5mm LED's but with a 100ohm resistor to see if that works. If not looks like I need to swap to smaller LED's.
Kevin, these MAKO boards might be huge compared to your latest line but are just perfect for this situation as no restriction of space etc.
Ian.
Statistics: Posted by Tankbear — Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:36 am
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If the hit LED is lighting up otherwise then there is no signal being received by the chip from the IR receiver. Fault could be between the chip and the 5 pin connector on the MAKO board OR the MAKO is not sending power to the receiver. Do you have a multimeter to do some continuity checks?
You need newer boards anyway I'm embarassed looking at those huge old things
Cheers
Statistics: Posted by Phyrephish — Sun Apr 28, 2013 10:36 am
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Tried using couple of receivers and wiring looms but nothing yet.
Suppose when I say it isn't receiving hits, the hit LED isn't lighting up (but is working) I can check the motor outputs to see if the RX18 is doing the silly recoil jerk, as not having them connected I over looked that
Ian.
Statistics: Posted by Tankbear — Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:50 am
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If the MAKO board is not receiving hits triple check the connections to the IR receiver both externally and on the MAKO board itself (the solder tracks). A chip replacement will probably not help as it is not really possible for the program on the MAKO to not do a part of the program yet still do other parts unless there is an external factor.
It's just after 6 in the morning here in Oz and last night Phil and I worked on bring helicopter attack to the tank battlefield I hope I can get out and do a video.
Cheers
KG
Statistics: Posted by Phyrephish — Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:11 am
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This one is intended for RC control so it has that plus sound. I let the pictures do the talking.
And a quick video.
Plus figured out the issue of not receiving hits. The MAKO chip is damaged, it still fires and hits all tank types just not receive them will have to see about getting a couple of replacement chips
Ian.
Statistics: Posted by Tankbear — Sun Apr 28, 2013 4:32 am
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Well that's a bright solution for your constant firing. Should of thought of that - well done.
The MAKO code could be adjusted to have a varing reload time if you wanted a little randomness in when the gun fires
Cheers
KG
PS Geez that is an OLD MAKO - still it can do everything the very last MAKO1 can do with a firmware upgrade.
Statistics: Posted by Phyrephish — Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:49 pm
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One thing though is it stopped been able to receive hits tried different tanks in case faulty ir emitter in the tank. Couple of receivers and even different wiring harness but no luck.
Any way a member of our team gave me a kv1 turret, RX18 and mako board to make another for spectators to use and interact with ir battles without risking damaging peoples tanks. So will post that soon.
Ian.
Statistics: Posted by Tankbear — Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:18 am
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So used HL Tiger turret and cannon, metal mantlet and Asiatam recoil. Also extended the cannon as well. Put it all together and sits neatly on a box of quality street (tough job but someone had to eat all that chocolate
)Originally I planned to constantly power the recoil unit so every time it fired it would trigger the microswitch to activate the flash and IR emitter. But this was two frequent so decided to leave the recoil as static for now.
Moving onto the electronics using a RX18 and original MAKO board. And if you add a 0v supply to the trigger pin on the RX18 it constantly fires but using the MAKO it adds a time delay until next fire, on this board it is about 7 seconds. And this MAKO board has a LED flash output as well so using that.
Once I got it all working as an automatic firing device I thought about adding the Panzerturm too receive hits. Originally wasn’t going to bother as this MAKO board was the original and didn’t support HIT LED. But with comparing it with a later v2 MAKO board I figured out how to add a HIT LED indicator. So added all that wiring to the turret as well.
Think I take it to the Hyde meet on Sunday and see how it performs, sure hitting any tank in it’s line of site should add a bit of extra fun to the IR battle.
Then it needs painting.
Ian.
Statistics: Posted by Tankbear — Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:42 pm
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