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Electrical testing started and proceeded in a well orchestrated and methodical fashion as you can see! |
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First thing up would be the rather tasty looking speed controller. |
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Rather than use the radio, I will use by servo tester made by S M services. |
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This is the test set up using a convenient 540 I had lying around. I'm using a 7 cell 8.4v battery. The Corad controller is self sensing, LED direction indicating very smooth |
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The sound unit is quite clever in that it plus into the speed channel of the receiver and has a pass through plug for the speed controller.
The 2 adjusters are for volume
and 'Puffing rate!' |
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This is the Action P44A 'Universal' twin Switcher unit. One radio channel can be used to switch on 2 devices, for our purposes smoke and lights. The unit can be configured so that each relay can be set to be latching or non-latching |
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Both unit arrived from Action promptly and well packed with clear and well presented instructions, well done Craig. |
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This is a close up of the Tomahawk smoke unit.... isn't that a paper clip!!!!! I've got a feeling that this may be replaced with the Hunter system smoke generator that is supplied ready to run - Does anyone have experience of the Hunter unit? www.huntersystems.co.uk |
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After
pondering over the motors for quite some time I changed my mind. I would
really liked to have fitted the twin motors as they ran silently, drew
only a few milliamps and had a 850mA stall current but in the end as
this is not my personal boat and maybe the setup was a little too
experimental, I opted for a more conventional arrangement of a single
540/600 size motor ( a stern email from Jan also help change my mind too!
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