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Re: New planing hull design.
… eliminate them?)* I know you're not hesitant about choosing brushless motors over brushed ones, but I'm asking you to make an effort to answer this question. Given that when it comes to fast boats, brushless motors are almost a must for man …
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Re: Sea Queen 2026 (Aerokits).
… Crash Tender Base on the Aerokits one. Great boat !!! 50mm brushless motor 450kv on 6S Lipo ( two 3S setup in series). 52mm 2 blade cnc prop. I finally ended up placing the batteries, one each side of the rudder. This made the boat handle …
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Re: Maiden Voyage
… n as my recently completed Sea Urchin, but also considering brushless power - I reckon a motor with around 1000kv coupled with a 2s lipo or 7.2v buggy pack should do well - of course the lipo pack is much lighter, but the extra weight of th …
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Re: SHIP MODELING: WHICH MODEL COMPANIES ARE STILL ACTIVE? WORLD OVERVIEW, CHARACTERISTICS AND PECUL
… ion. A Monoperm super is fitted is fitted but I might run a brushless motor, same fittings so can swap, after seeing how she runs. Roy
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Re: Maiden Voyage
+To me that is the down side to brushless, silly revs. Ok in the right boat + Nothing to do with being brushless. Problem would be with having too high a kV motor and battery voltage. I use brushless in all my builds including two very slow …
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Re: Maiden Voyage
To me that is the down side to brushless, silly revs. Ok in the right boat
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Re: Speed Control
… ect is exploited in the more sophisticated units (eg. Shark brushless ESCs) to provide audible programming information in the form of bleeps. I also believe it’s more efficient. Older ESCs operated at lower frequencies: my early experience …
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Re: SHIP MODELING: WHICH MODEL COMPANIES ARE STILL ACTIVE? WORLD OVERVIEW, CHARACTERISTICS AND PECUL
… modeling. The hulls are structured to accommodate electric (brushless) or internal combustion engines, rudders, and radio-controlled systems. SLEC has preserved and modernized the legendary designs of historic UK brands such as Aerokits and …
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Model Slipway Vosper RTTL
… by a 6 volt Speed 400, and one was included, but I’m going brushless with this build. First thing after cutting out the hull, deck and interior liner is to clean up and trim, then you’re supposed to build up the rudder from 2 abs halves an …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… a small fuel tank of fuel to carry in the hull. Our current brushless motors and LiPo battery packs with suitable ESC probably weight quite a lot more and should make quite a dent in the suggested additional ballast weight suggested? Bob
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Re: New planing hull design.
… /overlander.co.uk/product/3536-06-1300kv-tornado-thumper-v3-brushless-outrunner-rc-motor/ +"Here, with 300 mm of immersion (the 700 mm you mentioned seemed excessive), I would also like an immersed volume of at least 2 kg. That seems like a …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… any progress with the project), I'll show you the only two brushless motors I have (hoping to find their construction characteristics as well). I have a lot of brushless motors.
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Re: New planing hull design.
… 0mm) then for good performance you don't need more than one brushless motor as that will provide all the speed that you need - for a brushed motor you are probably looking at a smaller boat but why go brushed at this size? So, only reason f …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… y hot though - battery is a 7.2 volt NiMh). But I'm sold on brushless and use them in all my builds, even the slow models. I like the engineering and the fact they are more flexible for voltage used - for better performance you can just use …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… o you think it can't plane with a brushed motor? I have two brushless motors I can use (I'll show you later), but I wanted to start experimenting with my own brushed motor. I know you're a fan of brushless motors, but do you think brushed m …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… egrees if it isn't already. As my round bottomed Faun has a brushless motor I have had a mad idea to see if I could get it to plane! But I've shelved it as I think it could end in tears!
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Re: New planing hull design.
… izes partly by considering the motor size (though outrunner brushless will turn bigger no problem) but also by what looked right - I didn't want a prop that looked too big. So far performance from all of them is very good and I don't want t …
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Re: Malcolm Campbells Bluebird K3
… r-charged Rolls Royce Merlin engine would be nice.....but a brushless out-runner would be a more likely choice, facing forwards and mounted in the rear of the model with a geared drive shaft running underneath it - just like the prototype. …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… between 30" and 40" long are mostly driven by an out-runner brushless motor and run on a 45S or a 45X size propeller, but when building or restoring a power boat (of this size) I choose to allow clearance for a 50X propeller as I know this …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… to try both. 3. I need to decide whether to use brushed or brushless motors. But at this stage, I'll prepare the internals for both. ...continued...
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Re: What Engine? Vosper RAF Crash Tender 34"
… showing my RAF cash tender running with the ProDrive 1000kv brushless motor etc. https://photos.app.goo.gl/BYx8BWcqoXb4Yyzu8
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Re: What Engine? Vosper RAF Crash Tender 34"
Hi I have a ProDrive 1000kv brushless motor with a three bladed propeller and 3cell LiPo. The ESC is a water cooled Shark rated at 50 amps. Hope this helps.
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Re: New planing hull design.
… go too steep as you will start to waste power, though with brushless motors it's not really an issue - it is with full-size though as performance and fuel consumption will be affected. I think that the stern lifts slightly when power is fi …
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A new naval project. What to do now?
… the mechanical and electronic components, particularly the brushless motors. I'll need to find a size and scale that will allow for acceptable space both in the basement and in the car. I could then complete it to make it visually pleasing …
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Little Shelley Foss
Dual counter rotating props driven by independent 1000KV brushless motors. 6V / 3.5Ah Lead Acid Battery 2 16BL30 Quickrun Hobby Wing ESC's 3 ch. 2.4GHz Hobby King receiver Built to replace the Beaver Tug
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Building from plans
… eless designs that really does suit the modern era of small brushless motors and LiPo batteries - possibly even better than the original intended .21 glow engines. My Remora is a few years old now, and although it was designed as a competit …
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Building from plans
… plan and the design still performs really well today with a brushless motor - although the one I built in 1965 had an OS21 Marine engine to power it. LewZ showed us his idea of making a lighting box as a way of copying plans, and this idea …
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
… s. It performed as I'd hoped pulling away smoothly with its brushless motor and maintaining slow speed when required, very slow speed in fact and no cogging! Only issue, though not that important, is that it could do with a bit more port ru …