Replacing Broken Brackets and Turret Rotation
Some more progress and steps back. I reworked the power system to all work off the main batter so no more AA batteries to run the radar motors. But this increased the RPMs - 3v to 5V and my radar setup didn't like this. So I had to spend time making it more robust. Then when I went to do the turret rotation I realized all the added weight to the turret made the rotation very difficult, even by hand and also not smooth. So I made a friction ring that lets the turret be supported in all places and smoothly spin. But then when I mounted the rotation motor and it was all working I couldn't close the tank. The motor is too big when paired with the HL power pack. Ugghh! I thought I had room but with all the tweaking I'd made the turret gear large diameter pushing back the motor. Now I'm waiting for some other motors to see if I can get one to work. I'm sure that some combo with get things working, but the delays are frustrating. On the good side, this setup is more robu