Converting a Dick Kerr? MM16 Petrol/Electric to Battery R/C

ntpntpntp said:
Yeah the Essel Dick Kerr chassis is totally different to the one Tony's working on.

Rather disappointing that Essel's tag line is "Quality is our Priority" yet all they can manage is a single blurry photo of the Dick Kerr. Would you spend £475 based on just that photo? Is Essel still going, the last show dates listed were all 2015?
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I have a few Essel locos and they are very well made and reliable. I would recommend them 100%. They are still going, I ordered a loco from them recently.

Regards Alan.
 
James M said:
I have a few Essel locos and they are very well made and reliable. I would recommend them 100%. They are still going, I ordered a loco from them recently.

Regards Alan.
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Yes, the quality of their engineering far exceeds the quality of their photography :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:
 
That's great of course, but can't help feeling they could do with paying someone a few quid to keep the web site a decent shop-window for their products, which cost enough after all. I don't know what their main advertising channel is these days, but it was the first place I looked and it didn't come across as "Quality".
 
I have a couple of Essell Locomotives from their very early days 80's or early 90's. Both are excellent build quality. Only thing gone wrong after all these years is that the NiCad Batteries have now failed. But that Battery old tech has pretty much reached the end of its days anyway. I am currently rebuilding one to take a more modern system. The other will probably follow it. Though in those days one just an on/off forward reverce drive with no speed control. The Steam Tram which is currently the one being rebuilt had a Speed Control. Things have moved on some with all apparently having Speed Control. Nite I have edited this message since the original post to update things as I have reviewd my Models.
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Your installations are always so neat, Tony. An example to us all. Mine always end up looking like rats' nests - which is probably an insult to rats.

Rik
 
Thanks for the compliments Rik.
I am not really a neatness freak in life in general. But when it comes to installations I find it is always easier to wire something up if I do it neatly. Then if something goes wrong it is easier to trouble shoot.
I sell a lot of VIPER ESC's nowadays and they use the inline JST connectors that Peter Spoerer specified for his stock. Peter Kindly asked MTroniks to make them for me too. I like to test them before I use them and having in line plugs and sockets makes that chore a snip.

BTW I have finally figured out a way to make the Deltang Tx2 core module a plug in installation. There are just two wires which need to be added to the Tx2 pcb. 3.1 volts and pin # 8. They too plug into the 24 pin Pololu socket I mount on a pcb.
The Ch # 5 button and the ON-OFF switch use shortened servo leads so they also plug into header pins on the pcb. A very reliable low cost way of making connections.
What previously took about 65 minutes to build a handpiece, now takes 42
 
Tony Walsham said:
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What previously took about 65 minutes to build a handpiece, now takes 42
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I think my record was around 80 minutes, but that included printing the overlay and drilling the case. Of course the Tx22 took considerably longer .......

Rik
 
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