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News & Announcements / Re: OPEN PANZER Tank Control Board from TORRO

« Last post by LukeZ on December 12, 2024, 12:33:16 PM »

Of course you should treat yourself!

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News & Announcements / Re: It's all over?

« Last post by LukeZ on December 12, 2024, 12:31:56 PM »

Yes, the extra cables are now included. They weren't when the product was first posted to their shop, but they have since added them, which is good.

There was a report from an "EMV consultant" that discussed the ferrite cores, and other things that were necessary to be done to reduce the risk of electromagnetic interference and potential electro-static discharge. I forget the details of it now, but maybe it is included if you buy a board from Torro. I recall they even wanted the whole board wrapped in heatshrink during operation, which is not very practical.

Anyway as earlier stated none of that is necessary, but it's just one of those differences between selling a German/EU made product versus something from China. 

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News & Announcements / Re: It's all over?

« Last post by FuzzyJack on December 11, 2024, 02:59:07 PM »

Where would you put the ferrite cores anyway?   Power line or motor cables?

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News & Announcements / Re: It's all over?

« Last post by FuzzyJack on December 11, 2024, 11:15:03 AM »

According to the Torro page it does come with 1x Cable set (Item No.: OP-01014).

Which includes some of the cables needed to connect to other components.

At the moment it is going for 125 euro so around £100 UK.   Still a lot cheaper than an ElMod setup when you add all of the bits on top that are needed for a Henglong tank!

They stock the Sabretooth as well so appear to have thought it through anyway.

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News & Announcements / Re: OPEN PANZER Tank Control Board from TORRO

« Last post by FuzzyJack on December 11, 2024, 11:10:16 AM »

Oooh....

I hope LukeZ is getting some royalties from Torro for that!   

I still haven't been able to find the time to play with an Arduino/Raspberry pi alternative so I might get one of these to play with and add a Taigen Sherman sound board to.

It is nearly Christmas after all.  Maybe treat myself.

 

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Open Panzer Help / Re: Flysky palladin

« Last post by jhamm on December 05, 2024, 07:48:32 AM »

Which receiver did you use?
And have you configured it to SBus or iBus?

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Open Panzer Help / Re: Flysky palladin

« Last post by London_Image on November 30, 2024, 05:13:48 PM »

the documentation is pretty sparse, ill have to go down the you tube rabbit hole, some owners have posted stuff on its functions ill try there as flysky are stingy on their info

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Open Panzer Help / Re: Flysky palladin

« Last post by LukeZ on November 29, 2024, 03:08:37 PM »

Hi London Image,

The TCB doesn't really care what transmitter you're using, or even have any way of knowing. All it really needs is the correct signal to be sent by the receiver.

I've not used the Paladin but it claims to support PPM, iBus and SBus, all of which the TCB can read. I did a cursory search for documentation on how to activate these modes and it's very sparse, but hopefully you have a manual.

I did see somewhere that supposedly on the transmitter there is a receiver setup screen, and in there should be where you select the protocol. Supposedly if you set it to PPM the PPM signal will then come out of the channel 1 position of your receiver - so that's what you'd connect to the TCB. I couldn't see where the signal is supposed to come from when you set it to either iBus or SBus, but maybe that depends on the receiver. 

Anyway, this is what you will need to research, and figure out how to get the receiver to spit out your desired protocol, and then make sure it's connected to the correct pins on the TCB.

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Open Panzer Help / Flysky palladin

« Last post by London_Image on November 29, 2024, 08:20:34 AM »

i recently bought a flysky paladin, and the op software cant find it when i attempt to read radio

any ideas?

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Open Panzer Help / Re: Reverse gear switch

« Last post by LukeZ on November 06, 2024, 12:47:25 PM »

To my surprise, the answer to your question is: yes. I had forgotten all about it, but this question has come up before and we created a work around that does exactly what you describe.

See the Manual Transmission entry in the Functions list.

But basically there are three functions called "Manual Transmission - Forward / Reverse / Neutral" that you can assign to a three position switch. Presently it does require a three position switch for all three functions, so a two position switch wouldn't work. You can read more about when this change was added in this post: "Manual" transmission possibilty.

Give it a try and let me know if you have any issues.