optik-tank (pics for dela)

[epoxy]

waiting restlessly for more news from the "messe",
i made a small movie of the tank introduced in the
Megabotz von Megatech thread.


so i finally got one, time to put it to the test.
link to youtube
tomorrow it willl be taken apart, detailed pictures will follow.

[dela]

What an ugly tank!

Thanks, epoxy, for presenting the tank. Nice to see that he is realy able to follow the line.

Where dit you buy it?

[epoxy]

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What an ugly tank!

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agreed, it ain't much to look at.
so we tear out it's guts and see what's inside.
it's all put together with little screws, no glue.


it comes with batteries (4X ag13/lr44) and textmarker included.
also included is a simple teststrecke on a A4 paper.

how big is it? it's a monster ! we could call it "fat bertha" ?

the tracks are about the same length as a digiQ,
but just half a track (3-4mm) wider.

why is she so fat ?

it holds it's batteries in a bay under a little hatch.
and it has a fat gearbox too.

lots of reduction on this one, it measures
about 25x21x15mm.
directy under the smallest gears in the back are the two 6mm
motors.
also visable are the 4 cell's on the underside of the platine
that make it "see"
(ugly, fat, foureyes, what's next?)

a closer look at the platine. (for the techies)


yellow/black is - (null)
the black wire to the right is + (2xlr44)
and the yelow wire conected to the red and black
on the platine is + (2xlr44)

all in all, a fun toy, maybe some parts of it can be used.
with a little work maybe the platine will fit in a combatdigiQ body, it's just a little bigger (26x21mm)

where did i get it ?
it came along with some combatdigiQ's from japan.
just some side "bounty" of the combatdigiQ "panzerjagt"
i'll bet that in japan these are very cheap and could be a
exxelent source for parts.
shippingcosts to europe far exeed the costs to buy one.
i just bought it out of curiosity.

[dela]

...bau den mal vernünftig um, dann hol ich mir auch welche.

Schurz beiseite: sehr schöner Bericht von dir! Tolle Beschreibung, klasse Bilder!

Was ich gut finde: voll kompatibles Fahrgestell, Mega-Getriebebox, und die echte Innovation: Fotozellen

Schlecht: Knopfzellen als Energiespeicher, Abmaße. Sieht aus wie Ferdinand Porsches Rache. Tiger auf Anabolika.

Aber von wem du das Teil hast, weiß ich immer noch nicht...

[Meltdown]

This one sure needs a mod!
Never saw one so ugly, lol

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[epoxy]

yes, it needs more than just a paintjob

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Was ich gut finde: voll kompatibles Fahrgestell

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das fahrgestell is not 100% compattible,
the digiQ laufrolle just about fit,
but the little (king)pin's of the digiQ are to small and are to short
to fit.

on the other hand das fahrgestell is just a few mm wider than a digiQ, it could just be enough space to fit the wider kind of metalkette like the friul atl-43 ?

my first idea was to build the platine into one of my digiQ's,
one of my "static models" that got killed by batteryrot
could be running around like a undead zombieQ
sounds easy enough to me, if i could just fit the platine into a
Qbody and make suitable holes in the bottom of the tank.

i'm also wondering how fast it will run if i just connect the digiQ
motors/gearbox to the platine.

maybe it could be combined with a panzerabwehr platine ?
have a zombieQ run over your combatstrecke shooting
IR ray's all over the place ?

with me being a sort of modding n00b i don't know if
it's possible at all (i think it is),
how small is such a homemade IR platine ?
is there a "how to build one for dummies" on this ? *lol*
could it fit in a digiQ turm ? do i have to learn how to
burn PIC's for this ? can it work on the small +/- 2.5V cellpack
of the digiQ tank ?
many questions.
any help on this would be most welcome.