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Solitary Sailor:
Moving along, the next photo is the boiler room or motive power source. Originally a 12 volt Gell Cell, but this, like the original MFA motors adversely affected the centre of balance of the boat in the water ... again, too much mass, too high above the waterline ... so it had to go, to be replaced by 2 7.2 volt NiHM  batteries. These batteries, together with the "Beuhler" motors, give a reasonable length of run on the water, when not also coupled to the smoke generator.

The next photo shows the smoke generator from "Harbor Models" a company out of California. This generator really does put out a lot of smoke, so much so, that I have it controlled by its own speed controller... a little "Mitroniks Viper 10" Even so, this little smoke generator is very thirsty on the juice and as a consequence, is not often used. Maybe the addition of another pair of NiHM battery packs, dedicated to the smoke generator on its own might resolve this problem, but as it stands, the generator takes more juice than the motors, unless the motors are run flat out all the time.

The copper manifold, seen in these photos, is the smoke distributor to the funnels

Solitary Sailor:
Hi Stew

It's nothing too complex, just a lot of it, much of which I managed to hide quite well.

Solitary Sailor:
Moving for'ard to beneath the bridge we have the radio receiver and related controls. The radio set up is a "Robbe" F-14 Navy version, a 7/8 channel radio set up with an additional module incorporated into the set up, allowing one channel to be split up into 8 possible extra functions ... good for controlling the sound modules and the smoke generator.

Right in the bow, is the servo set-up which controls the sound modules, this of course could have been done by a digital switcher, but I already had some spare cheap servos, so this is what it ended up as.

spuddevans:
That is a mighty fine looking piece of work there  :thumbup: :thumbup: Nice work on the wiring too.

Those "Beuhler" motor's sure are sweet runners arent they. My dad's railway (LGB stuff)  all uses them. They are super reliable, strong and smooth running. Easy to replace the bushes too.


Thanks for posting up the pics and write-ups  :thumbup:

Tim

Solitary Sailor:
And finally, back to the stern, and the steering gear.

The model was originally envisaged with rotating turrets and elevating guns, and "Fire Control", controlled by some more of "Action Electronic's " wizardry, however, the original set-up was not too successful, and so was removed ... for now, will retry again when I get my hands of some different servos, as the original ones I used, (Sailing winch type), did not respond well to the commands from the "Action" servomorphs

Any questions, feel free to ask ... hopefully I can answer them in a way that makes sense to all :smart:

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