Gun turret rotation

[Nicholas. WeetParticipant @nicholas-weet53373]

I need some ideas on controlling the rotation of the turrets on my 1 ;96 scale Warspite. I would prefer not to have a lot of relay contacts or wipers. The A&B and X&Y turrets can be paired. Any ideas?

[Penny LeeParticipant @pennylee76979]

Hi Nicholas

If you had the ability to program micro controllers:-

4 servos wired as two pairs-servo horns onto the turret,servos in hull.Mini sized if space is tight.Miniservos are now < £10

Use the digital electronics to to effect  a combined servo slower and a span adjuster.

You will probably find that,although servo potentiometers have 3/4 turn max,the servo gears and end stop limit to 1/2 turn. Normal servo travel is 1/4 turn on 1.5 +/- 0.5 millisecond.

OR

use a radio tuning style pully arrangement and two servo slowers.

Lee Penny

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

New ACTion P96 ServoMorph does exactly what Lee suggests – and a bit more besides. PM me (or E-Mail via the ACTion website) for further details.

Dave M

[Nicholas. WeetParticipant @nicholas-weet53373]

[Andy HustlerParticipant @andyhustler32076]

I’ve just got that bit of kit from action but have not yet had the chance to wire it up as yet.

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