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Open Panzer Help & Info => Open Panzer Help => Topic started by: laanwj on May 14, 2021, 04:55:58 AM

Title: servo recoil
Post by: laanwj on May 14, 2021, 04:55:58 AM

Dear Luke,

Is it possible to have 2 RC-outputs be used for a recoil servo , each with their own trigger?

Best regards,

Wim

Title: Re: servo recoil
Post by: LukeZ on May 14, 2021, 12:04:58 PM

Hi Wim, good question, but unfortunately no, the TCB does not presently have the ability to control a second cannon recoil.

Title: Re: servo recoil
Post by: laanwj on May 15, 2021, 03:57:40 AM

Hello Luke,

Thank you for the confirmation.

My thought:

Use a second atmega2560 board, flash the TCB firmware, connect the serial3 Rx signals from the TCB board (after the inverting stage) to the second atmega2560 board.

The second board will decode the, in my case, SBUS packets in parallel. The second board can than be configured to trigger it's own recoil servo using a RC channel not used by the TCB board.

Best regards,

Wim

Title: Re: servo recoil
Post by: LukeZ on May 15, 2021, 09:38:42 PM

Yes, that will certainly work, if you have the space for it. There are smaller versions of the Mega, do a search for Mega Pro Mini.

In the past I have considered adding a second servo recoil but the main problem is there would be no good way for the user to set up the endpoints or reversing.