Servo for raising / lowering tamiya landing legs

[Cossett]

The reason I was looking at using a servo is I dont need the rest of the crap that comes in a Tamiya motorized landing leg kit eg the tuntable base & 5th wheel parts and the skid plate parts that activate the landing legs as this is getting use on a FGD A trailer chassis and the bass plate sits about 5mm from the bottom of the trailer floor.
And was thinking of raising then via a linkage going though a servo horn on the servo that connects to the inner legs ....

Cheers Tracy

[ricm]

Originally Posted by Cossett

The reason I was looking at using a servo is I dont need the rest of the crap that comes in a Tamiya motorized landing leg kit eg the tuntable base & 5th wheel parts and the skid plate parts that activate the landing legs
Cheers Tracy

technically all the above suggestions could work....but for all the hassle of custom engineering an alternative, why not use the motorized landing legs kit just for the parts you need? might seem a bit more expensive at the outset but by the time you've mucked about and experimented with other bits and pieces, battery boxes, etc you might not be far ahead anyway. You could work out how to do away with the wiring and switches in the coupler area by working through the wiring diagram in the assembly instructions, so the legs only work off a self-centering switch which you can easily swap out for the standard one provided in the kit.

You might be able to recover some of the cost of the legs kit if you offer up for sale all the parts you don't need? Possible somebody might at least want the 5th wheel parts even without the trailer parts...