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Brushless Motors - Waveney Lifeboat ( Metcalfe Mouldings)
HI Joe, what is it you are after, a small fast electric boat, ready to run? Alan
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Brushless Motors - Waveney Lifeboat ( Metcalfe Mouldings)
hello just after joining hope to contribute in the future. just bought the same boat. my past models have been recycling rc helI motors on other boats. need smaller motors and speed contr any tips. ? not much space to play with. All the bes …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
So, you will be pleased now, but lets face it, you are just a hooligan at heart. Alan
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
HI dave yes I am going. it falls on our club 500 race day so that will be happening with an open invite if anybody else wants to join in. its really good fun. Roger what battery is it and what helI was it from. its not so much the volts but …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
HI Paul Glad to hear you have sorted your earlier problems. With the amps you are pulling I'm not surprised your older batteries were struggling. Did you have to change any ESC settings? Be good to see some video but I guess you would need …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Help this thicket, how many volts per lipo cell and do you think I could use 7 volt helicopter batteries in a fast boat Roger
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
little update, after a miserable winter with this boat, having a number of problems, which were esc settings, I decided to give it a treat with some Xmas gift money. My other big fast boat runs two 5000mah 3 cell lipos, and I only have one …
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On / Off switch for Brushless ESC's
HI Alan & Dave I rather suspected that might be the case. I've trialled them in my Rib and they do work well so I'll just have to find a way of making the battery access easier! Hope your beauty sleep wasn't to disturbed Dave Thanks again t …
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Brushless Motors - Waveney Lifeboat ( Metcalfe Mouldings)
Thanks Alan and Dave for your advice - two very different opinions, maybe the answer is to go somewhere in between as I must admit I think that I shall end up being a speed freak or will get very bored.
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Brushless Motors - Waveney Lifeboat ( Metcalfe Mouldings)
That ESC is the one that I am going to use with mine. Performance Models don't do a bad price for them, I have a few in my fast electric boats and up until now they have been alright. A program card for them is a good idea as well Alan
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
After Roger, I reckon it would have been too difficult glassing over the rails. We had to pin them on to keep the shape, after heating the plastic square section so it would bend, then fill the pin holes with cyno, using a torch inside the …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Thanks Alan, been looking everywhere Roger
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Here you go Roger, this is where I got mine from, so that I could copy Paul http://www.ba-bolts.co.uk/brassba.html Alan
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Paul, did you fit the rubbing strakes before or after fibreglassing? Roger
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Come on Paul own up where did you find BA bolts that small! Roger
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
HI just looked at your phots seems to be a too large gap between pros and rudders and I would try larger rudders mihael1
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
cheers chaps, don't forget Alan, the hook was a cheat, the main body is brass, the base is plasticard, once painted with that humbrol metalcoat (fab stuff) and buffed up, it all looks like metal. My fav part of the build, those small BA bol …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
HI Paul, pleased that you have just about got it sorted. like Roger I am always referring to your build, at the moment I have photo's of your tow hook in the workshop, and I am trying to replicate it in 16th scale. Alan
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
HI Paul, boat looks superb just wanted to say thanks for your blog, find I am referring to it more and more as my build progresses, Roger
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
HI Paul Glad to hear you are making progress. Low Volt cut off will trigger on each occasion the volt drops below the set value, that is its purpose. Two thoughts - have you tried additional capacitors on the ESC input from the battery? Tim …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
This might help people doing a twin screw build. The real boat was same direction, propshop advised have then turning outwards, the explanation made sense, lets face it they are the experts. I wanted counter rotating to stop torque roll, wh …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
well we are back to normal, not convinced I have altogether solved it, but I think its a combination of things. I turned off the low voltage cut off, and things seemed to be much better. I tried the castle creations esc's and things where v …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Good luck Paul, I'm sure you will trace the cause. Just a thought is the water cooling in series? and if so is it possibly not as cool when it reaches the second device? Have faith,
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Cheers dave. I might just set fire to it and give it a viking funeral! Its niw ready to r test again. Roll on the weekend! . Now where are the Swan vestas!
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
HI Paul The symptoms all point to the ESC. Alan appears to have sorted a similar problem by changing his ESC's. Its possible that the ESC's actually measure the voltage over a period of time and are therefore registering and accumulating ea …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Just a thought, but if you are setting up the ESCs using the musical notes, perhaps you have got the cut off setting too high, they are very hard to set up properly without a program card. Or you could set them up without cut off, just run …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
could be Alan, I need to try some others as soon as work permits, its like having a black cloud hanging over me till its sorted once and for all, real set back as I had drawn a line under this build thinking it was completed, PCF boat will …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
If you gently build up to top speed, does it still do it? I have been having a similar problem with a fast electric boat, it would go alright for a very short time and then the speed controller cut it to half speed as though the batteries w …