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« on: December 19, 2019, 04:42:49 PM »
Hi Luke You could try moving those various cannon fire functions off the turret stick and assigning them to a switch on your transmitter and seeing if the problem goes away. Although the behavior you describe shouldn't happen, I also don't think the turret stick is really an ideal trigger source if you can avoid it. I had exactly the same thought. There is a spring loaded trainer switch on the tx, I am going to transfer the functions there and everything should fall into synch. The only reason I hadn't done it when I started the project was because I had freshly installed ER9X firmware and didn't have a clue how to use it. I have since figured it out.
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« on: December 18, 2019, 03:21:42 PM »
The only changes I made were to which slot the main gun sound was in. The only way that I got it to work was by having one sound in that slot. Anything in slot 2 just repeats as soon as the power is switched on. The gun sound will only operate if the left stick is about 1mm to the left of centre at the top, otherwise i just get the flash and recoil. I don't know if this is due to the Prop settings in diagnostics, it seemed to work ok when I tested the mini. The v1 won't allow uploads of settings, the v3+ allows Luke's files to be uploaded. I am happy with it as it is, and may build another system as I have a Leopard 2A6 sat on the shelf, as well as an M41 Gorilla, neither of which have control boards fitted. The motor control is as smooth as silk.
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« on: December 17, 2019, 04:27:12 PM »
I did it, the DasMikro Micro, now plays the Cannon sound, and without using TBS Flash 4.
It was the engine start up sound glitch with the Mini that made me think.
Screenshots are attached of the settings that I used. I used the Tiger 3 soundset. The bottom two sounds will need to be removed as they take up to much memory, they are only voices anyway.
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« on: December 17, 2019, 01:42:28 PM »
Having visited a friend, and having had a play around, I now have everything working. Eg Engine sounds, and cannon fire. I used the Mini board, and set everything up as per the Mini wiki.
One exception, I had to use Autostart in the TBS Flash, as otherwise I got the start up sound on right stick up, but once that stopped there were no running engine sounds.
It was downloading your parameter file for the Prop settings that did the trick in the end. As to whether this file will work on the old version of Flash I don't know?
It would appear that Flash 3 or 4 is required to allow the DasMikro boards to play with the TCB nicely, but as to whether there is a way around this, only you will know.
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« on: December 16, 2019, 02:30:02 PM »
Managed to test the servo on Prop 2, with the Micro. I hooked up the servo +/- to the VR and the signal to the Prop 2 pin on the Arduino. Blipped the left stick up and the servo went one way, so I am assuming that this confirms the correct signal going to the micro. I will have to wait till I can get access to V3+ Flash to check out the compatibility of the Mini board. Hopefully within the next few days, it's a 140 mile round trip! 
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« on: December 16, 2019, 03:44:49 AM »
Hi Luke Quick question. Haven't had a chance to test the Micro signal with a servo yet, well I did try it but the servo never moved a muscle, but I need to check it isn't a duff servo just to be sure. If I can get to a friends this week, and get him to download V3 or later of the TBS Flash, would this theoretically allow the Mini board, rather than the Micro, to function seamlessly? I only ask because the engine start (blipping the right stick) is a much better way of starting the tank, and also shuts the sounds down after a few seconds of idle. The board is quite loud, so having it auto shut down would be the preferred way to go. 
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« on: December 14, 2019, 10:22:44 AM »
Lol, that was exactly what it was doing originally, I thought I was going mad, I was checking and rechecking the wiring, the TBS flash parameters, and the TCB. I'm just glad it was working it was designed to do. Ok, I will revert it to how it was, and await a suggestion for the cannon sound. No rush at all. The only pointers I can give are that the muzzle flash is working off the high intensity flash pin, and that the servo recoil works fine, and that both are driven off left stick up centre. If the missing sound can be linked to a function, I can add it to the same trigger. Your knowledge is far greater than mine, if the TCB is reading the TBS sound library and can isolate individual sounds, then being able to read Sound 2 from the function set up would solve it. Then again I may be hallucinating....  I did wonder whether the cannon sound defaults to a different trigger, but tried all stick positions and switches (though none of the other switches are active) to no effect. (Just for anyone that is reading this and wondering what the TBS parameters are on the right side, PWM etc. The Benedini is primarily a sound board. These settings allow anyone to create a sound, and then trigger a servo when the sound is activated, the far right parameters determine the servo range and speed. It's quite clever, as it can drive two devices, such as a linear servo or a standard servo, it can even be linked to lights).
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« on: December 14, 2019, 08:06:41 AM »
Just to check, should I be setting: Micro - Autostart off, but set to Engine Sound or Manual Start. TCB - Autostart off. I tried swapping the Engine On, Engine Off, for the toggle, but it is still engaging and disengaging the transmission. The engine sound starts as soon as the power is switched on. The repeating cannon sound has gone, but it won't generate the sound on left stick up. I am in no rush with this, so please don't think that I am expecting instant responses, I can pick up the replies anytime. 
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« on: December 14, 2019, 07:26:20 AM »
It appears that I misread the instruction: Due to the way the engine is started on the Micro, if you assign the individual “Engine - Turn On” and “Engine - Turn Off” functions on the TCB to a 2-position switch on your transmitter, the Micro will begin playing the engine sounds when you turn on the device, even if the switch on your transmitter is on the Off position. In order to avoid this, use the “Engine - Toggle On/Off” function instead of the individual on and off functions, and assign that to a 2-position switch. One position will toggle the engine, the other position will do nothing. Keep the switch in the nothing position when you start the TCB and it will then remain synchronized with the Micro. I'll try again using the correct function...
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« on: December 14, 2019, 06:39:42 AM »
The quest continues...  I tried setting the 'gear' two way switch on the tx to Engine On/Engine Off. What this actually does is engage and disengage the transmission. I have tried autostart set to off on both the Micro and the TCB, but the second I turn the power on the cannon sounds repeatedly. I can even unplug Prop 2 and the cannon sound keeps going. If only connect the USB and activate the OP Config this will also activate the repeating cannon sound. It seems that the cannon sound is triggered by power to the Arduino rather than any switch on the radio, or setting in the OP config, or Flash ? I only just noticed that you are in Amiens...I used to live close to Chateaubriant further west. I've been down your side a couple of times to see the WW1 sites etc.
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« on: December 13, 2019, 09:43:03 AM »
I've got these two, but can't see the *.tbp file, even a search doesn't throw anything up?
Just realised I probably need to generate it...will follow soon.
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« on: December 13, 2019, 08:17:56 AM »
I have hooked up the Micro board.
All settings as you have described in the Flash, and I am part way there.
As soon as I power the tank up the cannon sounds, but it repeats non stop. The only way to stop it is to turn the tank off.
Prop 3 isn't connected, just Prop 1 & 2.
If I pull the Prop 2 plug from the Micro while it is generating the cannon sound, it still carries on?
Hopefully you will know what is causing this, I have checked all of the pins and connections, but drawn a blank.
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« on: December 12, 2019, 08:08:18 AM »
Update: Finally got around to loading the Tiger 3 sounds onto a 'micro' board. The Parameters and Diagnostic screens are shown below. The OP is set to 'Micro'. I've tried Prop 3 connected and disconnected. Still no cannon sound?  Interestingly the engine sound is much the same to my untrained ear on both the mini and the micro. The Benedini Flash is on autostart, it now starts the engine sound as soon as power is connected. If anyone has problems with their FTDI USB UART, the driver they should try is v2.10.00. FTDI and Windows conspire to remove it, so if your FTDI stops working you may have to reinstall it. Windows Updates sometimes replace it with a later version that won't work.
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« on: December 10, 2019, 02:54:07 PM »
I don't blame Thomas in the slightest for taking this approach, it is his product and it must have been as frustrating as hell to see the Chinese cloning it. I have Micro boards, so I'll try using one of those. The Mini clones were bought for RC Trucks, and they will work fine on those, so it's not wasted money, it would have been good if they worked with the TCB firmware though.
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« on: December 10, 2019, 07:04:31 AM »
I've just been playing around with it, trying all sorts of different combinations. I managed to get the cannon sound but only when it was somehow linked to the Engine Start. I also had it on left stick down left, and even playing after the engine shut down. Need to figure out which parameters move it to left stick up. The sound is there, the TBS can play it, and the TCB can play it. It's now a matter of identifying what correctly triggers it.
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