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Slec Fairey Huntress
One of the reasons I like brushless is because they are so well engineered! If you haven't got one already get a decent balance charger for the Lipos. It will charge your NiMh etc. as well. Will watch your build with interest. Chris
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Slec Fairey Huntress
… 7.2v….so I’ve decided to bite the bullet and go 3s Lipo and brushless… I’ll go to Slec and get the motor and controller they have for it. Will make a start on it in next few days, looks a very good kit. Thanks all.
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identification required please
I have several. When buying a brushless motor off E Bay, these are often included in case the application is an aircraft. Not much use for a boat as too light for ballast!
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Slec Fairey Huntress
… to suggest as per the others i.e. use your batteries with a brushless motor but if you want to go brushed then something like the MFA 540 should fit the bill. Attached is from the Component Shop. I always reckon you need around 10k. RPM to …
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Slec Fairey Huntress
… t was me and i already had some batteries, I would go for a brushless motor and suitable speed controller, that if you found that your batteries didn't give the performance or duration you wanted, you could upgrade to lipos at a later date …
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Slec Fairey Huntress
… ad used a brushed motor and nicads instead of the suggested brushless and lipos. I’ll probably price up the brushless and brushed alternatives and go from there. I have nicads from my car and truck rc days. I guess the weight of the nicad/n …
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Slec Fairey Huntress
… teries, then personally, I'd be seriously tempted to go the brushless route, but not running lipos. As I said before, you would still have to buy an ESC, but if you got them both from eBay or Banggood, they'd probably cost you £50 or less f …
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Slec Fairey Huntress
… a lighter, more powerful(size for size) and more efficient brushless set up. You could run a brushless motor on a different battery to a Lipo. The cost of a brushless motor and suitable speed controller wouldn't be particularly great, espe …
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Slec Fairey Huntress
I suspect Dave Milbourne the designer chose the brushless motor to give the model the scale performance he desired. I searched our Boat Harbour section and there is at least one Huntress shown but no details of the motors used. I suggest yo …
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Slec Fairey Huntress
… re any particular reason that you don't want to go down the brushless/Lipo route? Will
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Simulated Cooling Water discharge
… that the brushes would have a really long lifespan. Would a brushless motor survive this treatment any better? Don't get me wrong, NONE of my boats are ANYWHERE near this stage of build/repair, it's just something that I have wondered for q …
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Simulated Cooling Water discharge
… p for the smoker and a water pump which cools the in-runner brushless motors and also provides water for the exhausts. The front 'exhaust' is the constant cooling water and the rear is for water, smoke and air together to break up the water …
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Simulated Cooling Water discharge
Hi Will, As you know, all of my power boats have brushless motors mounted on water-cooled alloy motor mounts. The water enters the boat via a water scoop (just like when we were allowed to run our two strokes and glow engines on the UK club …
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Simulated Cooling Water discharge
Maverick, yes, I will be running a water cooled mount (brushless outrunner), but that connected to the outlet will give a constant discharge of water and will probably be what I will actually end up doing. It was nothing more than simply wo …
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Power and Control
… ze electric motor do I need for a 48" Huntsman, what's best Brushless make ( without breaking the bank), also what size ESC ( 100amp maybe) please
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Power and Control
… urn of speed. So I'd use at least a 50mm diameter outrunner brushless motor for the torque. As diameter increases the available kv (to determine the battery voltage required) tends to decrease and unlike say 28 and 35 diameter motors where …
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building Katie
… speed control to it? I sure hope it is a brushed and not a brushless motor. There are several views of the finished model on this website. Something I had not mentioned in my earlier post, is that I add fiberglass to my models’ deck to sea …
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SILICONE TUBE COUPLING
… with success, but would not personally use silicon with any brushless motor as they produce a great deal of power and need good a good solid mounting and drive train. Any problem with either and you are likely to see magic smoke or worse an …
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SILICONE TUBE COUPLING
… shafts. My Hartley jet boat can pull 30A with a 3000kv 45D brushless inrunner on 3s, and it seems to handle it ok. On brushed motors or brushless inrunners, you will need to make a 'stopper' at the motor end to stop the tube migrating up t …
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President Huntsman kit
… s an old 500 series electric motor, will be replaced with a brushless one. I also have just the fibre glass hull with the deck on it but no superstructure on it. I hope to build a top for it, but it will probably be totally different to the …
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RUNABOUT SLIPPING SILICONE COUPLING SOLUTION ?
… der, (sometimes 'vertical lathe' for light stuff) press for brushless motor shafts etc. One of the handiest tools is an Austrian EMCOSTAR multi machine, (bench saw, band saw, disc sander, belt sander, jigsaw etc) which I was given,- a perfe …
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Jet PT Boat. looking for best model as base.
… purchased another Turnigy AquaStar 4084-1050KV Water Cooled Brushless Motor. They no longer seem to have thier UK warehouse running. So it now come from thier GLOBAL one. The motor has gone up about 30% since I last bought one and the posta …
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Jet PT Boat. looking for best model as base.
… ve. Even food prices are rising every few weeks. I bought a Brushless motor and ESC from Hobby King back before the Pandemic and the same parts they have gone up by about 75%. I wanted to buy a second set the same, but I am now I think just …
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Jet PT Boat. looking for best model as base.
… nd has a 26cc 2stroke petrol engine. I plan to convert to a brushless motor.This picture was taken about 11 years ago I think. There a few more pictures on my harbour listing.
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43” RAF Fire Boat
Thanks for the info, brushless seems to be advice by most people I’ve asked.
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43” RAF Fire Boat
… st enough to plane. What are your views about upsizing with brushless motor, brushless motor controller and what size of battery and whether to stay single drive or change to twin drive. Hope someone has product info for upgrading. Thanks P …
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43” RAF Fire Boat
Brushless will give you all the power you need with the right propeller and battery. I have a 48" Sea Queen and use a 750Kv 36XX type with a 60amp controller and 11.1v LiPo and 35mm 3 blade PropShop prop. Use a Wattmeter to measure the curr …
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What are you building?
… ck Najade motor yacht. It comes complete with rather a nice brushless motor. MIR might buy the same model which I think will suit him as it is a reasonably straight forward model but has elements of difficulty thrown in for good measure. It …