Apathic

Did you end up sanding the tires? How did they look?

Has this forum been removed from the Leopard directory? I couldn't find it in the Forums list.

I did receive my, "Certificate of Authenticity!". #24!

Today I finally got around to trying to start troubleshooting my tank - agian. After getting new replacement gun thing, I still have no camera. I tried to swap out P and Q to no avail, restarted both the tank and controller in seperate orders, no luck. When swapping P and Q, I didn't get any new camera result, but hte turret motor did start spinning. What does this motor do (Q)?

Yes, that was kinda uncommon. Thanksfully I had enough track pieces though that I didn't have to use them.

Do you mean the little eye hooks? I had three sets sent to me from Agora, and every time they weren't packed right to NOT break. I just gave up on them.

Camera STILL doesn't work (no signal.) Sound board appears to only be able to play one sound at a time - so the engine is, 'off' when the tank fires. Lights are brighter now. Gun barrel does go up and down now. Turret rotation does not work, but I don't have all of the screws in so that might be the issue there. Figured why @#$% bother if the camera still doesn't work and I'm going to have to re-solder the wires to the side of the turret and to the back three prong exposed copper things. I have a few wires that have pulled from their connections on the turret, no doubt thanks to repeatedly having tot assemble/dissasemble the tank. I do not have any vape fluid in, but I do hear the exhaust motors turning. Tank does now turn and move, for about five minutes before the battery is depleted. Doesn't seem to have enough power to turn effectively on carpet. I'm pretty disgusted that the camera - the main selling point for me - is still inoperable. It might be because of a few wires not being. connected, but that's shoddy programming/design on someone's part. Overall for the price point, I'm still quite unsatisfied. Hope you all have better luck.

So far so good. I installed hte black CPU on the bottom, and now both drive motors work again. Hopefully I can get into the damned turret today.

My kit gets delivered today. I'm pretty excited to see how it works, and to see how the rest of you guys's tanks turn out.

I'd love to find the switch panel decals. Can you please supply a link?

Hatchette Partworks has a Disney Dollhouse that looks AMAZING. Could be a licensing nightmare in the states though. I tried to talk them into letting me get a subscription (would be amazing on display at the children's hospital I program for.) Here's an example: https://hachettepartworks.com/en-en/disney-dolls-house/disney-dolls-house-49/

I think from my limited testing that this may correct a great number of inherent flaws in the parts. I do think one of my main drive motors is bad, though - I've swapped it out on the PCB to verify it does work when switched. If there's anything I've learned in my career as a software programmer though - is that I'm more often wrong than right 🙂 Can't say I'm looking forward to tearing down and replacing springs in the turret - God knows I've taken that bottom plastic plate on and off more times than I should have already. But thanks, Agora.

Are they proactively sending out replacement circuit boards/motors to everyone? I have a pending email to respond to, they have asked me to verify some pretty basic stuff that I knew enough to do, but figured I'd reply with pictures/video in case that helped.

I don't think anyone has a working tank yet, and that we were given electronics and circuits that are obviously faulty.

@Joep one of my drive motors has failed as well!

@AgoraSam - to be fair, that troubleshooting guide sort of treats us like we don't know what we are doing. Anyone that has built this tank is surely smart enough to check for clearance issues with the vertical barrel movement, or too tight of screws preventing the turret from rotating. The camera not working (that was THE selling point for me) and the electrical, 'gremlins' look more like circuit board problems/failures, and some REALLY sloppy programming. I suspect Agora got a bit over their head with importing something that obviously wasn't prototyped correctly, and I do sincerely feel sorry for you guys for being in this kind of position. But for working folks, this was a lot of money, and I do not think it is unreasonable to have expected something a bit more better flushed out. Also, where in the hell is my Ferrari 312? 🙂

World of Wayne couldn't get this camera to work either, or the turret rotation. Also - and I thought this had been addressed via software - firing the gun makes the tank burst forward still - shouldn't that be backwards?

Hey Joep, you can charge the tank until the red light beside the port turns off. I do think that part of it works 🙂

B port on main board is defective. I can swap them out, but only get one side of tread going at a time.

Camera does not work; display on remote says CAM POWER OFF. Headlights do not come on, taillights and front yellow lights do - dimly. Turret motor does not turn. Pretty damned frustrated at this point.

Pack 12 is up. I never would have figured out what that camoflauge thing went to (hint: on the turret.) So one has to remove the entire top of the tank to refill the exhaust fluid?

Holy crap you are right - that is what they are importing (brand wise!) Thanks so much, I thought I had looked everywhere for the source of the kit!

Hey Clint, Agora doesn't really R&D anything as far as I can tell - they just import and sell kits that are available overseas. This tank, though is a mystery - I can't find it anywhere. There are other R/C models that are close, but this one is unique in the FPV camera (main selling point for me.) The tub and suspension arms REALLYL should have been metal - especially at this price point. The tracks should have been pre built as well. Anyhow pack 12 is pretty easy to figure out how to built for the most part.

@Diceman Got it. I now have a working, RC chassis (Jesus Christ, they even make the batteries hard to get in!) Putting it together, and I have an error. P wire inside the turret has come lose at the soldered ends. Now I get to take that thing apart and figure out/fix that. The controller is easy enough to figure out without instructions. Also, those upper track roller end pieces came flying off as soon as I pushed forward, so you all keep an eye on those.

I have one side mounted with 80 links (minus one) and it was a bear. How did you go about mounting the trackes?