Good evening, the original plans for the build was to have a full lighting harness - navigation, fighting lights
and some interior lighting. I them decided I would not be sailing her at night so I decided the electrics would be
for two radar scanners - one on each mast, both 4.5 gun turrets and the gunnery director to rotate together
two 6v smoke generators(1 only had a pathetic smoke output) and finally a computor fan under the funnel
which would do two jobs - take away some heat from the motors and boost the smoke coming out the funnel.
The stern was straightforward fit the rudder servo, fit the motor battery between the prop shafts.
From the motors forward the wiring has been re-fitted three times and I heeded the forums advice and fitted
fuses and a control board from Dave at ACTion. after that the drive and power has been no trouble.
Between the fuse boards is a 3v battery box to run a micro geared motor on the main mast radar.
Forward of this is the space for the fan and smoke generators
It's in photo 3 I had the problems and there is a spaghetti nest of wires - Buried deep out of sight are two viper ESCs
and Daves control and distribution board then another 6v SLA to run fan, smoke, turret motors and the bedstead
radar on the foremast. The turrets and director each have a 300/1 geared Jotika motor controlled by the servo sitting
in the wooden frame. There is probably some gloriously simple electronic way to do this but my way does work even
if it looks a bit Heath-Robinson. I couldnt use geared shafts to run the turrets because I couldnt fit a shaft to the
forward turret. to get power to the sperstructure I make 4 spring loaded terminals ( in the white plasticard fitting and
made up other spring loaded terminals to run power to the main and mormasts as I wanted to take off the
superstructure withoug having them connected by a miriad or wires.
I works on the bench - we will see about the lake - I promise more pictures and less print in future
Geoff