Euro dump truck

[Digger_Bear]

Originally Posted by Midtown

How many channels do I need to build a truck like this? I like the price point of the DX6i. Is a 6 channel radio enough if I want to run a MFU?

If your buying a radio maybe look at the FlySky FS-TH9X or Turnigy 9X (both same basically) and come with 8 channel receiver and when you get use to it quite flexible with programming. Or if you've a bit more to spend the Turnigy 9XR Pro is the updated version.

Like Rimrock said the Tamiya MFU isn't that good and was the first thing I changed on my Tamiya truck. I won't say what I swapped it with as I sell them and don't want to break any rules.

For your information this is what came in the in my Hercules tipper

http://www.wtbcar.com/shopping/index...product_id=136

It does speed control, and sounds. Looking at instructions it does have a tipper hydraulic pump control output but it doesn't give any details.

It appears to have good slow speed control but the truck does have planetary gears so really low ratio so that might hide low end speed control

http://www.wtbcar.com/shopping/index...product_id=356

and a lighting system like this, I can't find the right one now but there is a version which also has a reverse buzzer.