Paddler to try independant paddle control

[andrewh]

I have a transmitter with mixing built in, and wanted to try using it for independant control of paddles having been ibnspired by Graham Goodchild's Irene.  (I also want to use a similar system for rowing but that's a different form of paddling)

I had modified a couple of servos for continuous rotation  - but they got snaffled for my 12-year old's robot - so the paddles were fitted directly to the shafts of a pair of tape drive motors driven by servo amplifiers.  Hence 2 channels each with proportional control fore and aft, all worked off one stick of my Hitec 3SS

Pics now, more details later if interested

Boat is a small balsa creation of no special merit, but got painted dull grey to tome with a modelling friend's  blockade runner

andrew

[Eddy Matthews]

Thanks Andrew,

I don't normally build models small enough to suit your chosen method of powering, but quite a few of our members do, so I'm sure they would be interested if you could elaborate on how you hooked everything together, and what needed to be modified etc etc...

[andrewh]

Thanks - I will expand and take some more photos.

This, however is a clunker - little ones look more like: