Tramps Modifications

So today was the day I finally progressed with my spencer project,

My initial idea was to put radio controlled gear into spencer, so I could use a handset to control him. Unfortunately my previous attempt failed, I had trouble with the controller scaling the out put which didn't give me much control - it should have been proportional, but was more like an on off switch, also to fit all the components in, I had to use the tender and the first coach which was far from ideal as it put the weight to far back in the rake. Anyway, today I dusted off the project and here are my results,

Before I post the pictures I'll tell you, this isn't finished yet - but I still wanted to share

Spencer, almost standard looking eh? (Apart from the power cables to the tender)




Here's another extra addition, it's the speed control switch,



So, what's in the tender?





We have the battery, a 2s lipo (7.4v) a speed controller( top) and a 'servo tester' which selects the speed.

How it works,
Well, the switch on the engine is redundant in terms of the electrical system, although it still engaged/disengaged the drive cogs, the electronic speed controller has its own switch (that needs mounting), you switch on the esc switch and then dial in the speed in the dial on the 'servo tester', this can be forward or reverse, and from virtually no speed to full speed,

Here's a video of the bench test





There is still a fair bit of work left to do, the in/off switch needs mounting, I need to be able to secure the tender top to the base and I need try it!

I hope this has kept you entertained for the last 5 minutes as I've had to rewrite it x3 times due to my phone loosing the content!

Any feedback is appreciated,

Thanks
Luke