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Adding a Reverse to Forwards Only ESC?
… o allow you to swap/reverse 2 of the 3 supply wires to your Brushless motor.. You might want to try a Watt meter on your setup to see what the actual peak current your motor draws.. A 150amp ESC on full load would blow the brains out of ANY …
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Re: LesRo Sportsman (?) Restoration
… the bench for a refit and minor restoration. With a decent brushless motor and a 5mm prop-shaft coupled together with a Maxi-coupling the Sea Queen should run smoothly for many years to come. Bob.
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
… idea, Bob, but I can't imagine where they'd have found the brushless motor & ESC or the Lipos back in 1975!
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
Maybe Dave, ….or perhaps they fitted it with a good brushless motor and a 4C LiPo and powered it into the side of the pond and were too embarrassed to to let you know just how much fun it was. Bob.
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Adding a Reverse to Forwards Only ESC?
… into a Sport Fisherman/Offshore Power Boat, using a 1000kV brushless and 3S Lipo Cheers, Doug https://www.krick-modell.de/shop_fachhandel/Texte/67069_LEDProgrammierBox-EN-kl.pdf
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Adding a Reverse to Forwards Only ESC?
… have bought out an updated version namely the WP 16BL30 G2 Brushless Sensorless Mini 30A ESC which does accept card programming! As you've been using yours for many years doubt that yours are the updated version.
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Adding a Reverse to Forwards Only ESC?
… f the motor current draw. Cheers, Doug PS Precisely how the brushless motor/ESC would react to such treatment I don't know
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Adding a Reverse to Forwards Only ESC?
… he 30amp Quicrun, ...' I must beg to differ The Quicrun 30A brushless ESC, type 16BL30, has been my go to brushless ESc for many years. I have a stock which I bought when Krick here in Germany had a special offer going It is most easily pro …
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Adding a Reverse to Forwards Only ESC?
You can reverse the direction of a brushless motor by swapping two out of the three connections between the ESC and the motor. It should be possible to use a servo to do that, though with the cost of brushless ESCs, I am not sure it would b …
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Adding a Reverse to Forwards Only ESC?
Hello Lazy Ferret, I am using brushless motors and matching brushless Electronic Speed Controllers, so I am not sure that idea would work? Bob.
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… of prop that I would probably use on this craft with a good brushless motor would probably be an S40 …or with a really torquey out-runner motor possibly an S45 or an X40 could be tested to see what works best. My guess would be that the S40 …
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
… r and it reduces the amount they bob around a bit. And with brushless motors power isn't a problem to get good performance.
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Re: 48" Aerokits Sea Queen
… tching it now and driving a Classic Model Power Boat with a brushless motor rather than an ic engine. Both modern versions are faster and more efficient - but both have lost their soul Bob.
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Re: Aerokits Sea Commander. Strange Handling ?
… n build or restoration at the moment when combined with any brushless motor (in-runner or out-runner) that I have to use. Should make an interesting test session as I always use the same size water-cooled engine mount in all my boats so swa …
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Bloody AliExpress
… d Ali Express apologise for an issue with the delivery of a brushless motor - the supplier somehow lost the tracking, so Ali Express fined them and ordered them to give a full refund, which turned up in my bank account a week or so later. I …
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
… with all of my boats, I would like to have them all running brushless motors and lipo batteries. The last picture is an online image of the kit box. Will
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
… Launch. This has changed many times over the last 54 years! Brushless motors were not available back in 1971/2 when this build first started, but I doubt that the MFA 380 that is pictured will be the final choice. I did see a Fast Patrol La …
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VIC SMEED'S VIVACITY
… d to Vivacity. My continuing analysis of the brushed versus brushless question has, I believe, reached a sensible conclusion; - there is no longer any point pursuing a geared brushed set up with this size of model, when there is a viable (a …
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Re: 48" Aerokits Sea Queen
I know you won't be able to hear it over the sound of the brushless motor at speed but I'm going to install a sound module in at least the Swordsman to provide engine start up and lower speed engine noise as I think when just pootling aroun …
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Re: 48" Aerokits Sea Queen
… er before it overheats etc. So for me, electric, especially brushless, wins. Will
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VIC SMEED'S VIVACITY
… with shallower drive-angle (better thrust/efficiency) as a brushless motor is more compact than an old-school petrol engine! I will also have to decide on whether I use large slower moving prop or smaller fast revving prop for Vivacity - B …
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Re: 48" Aerokits Sea Queen
… e full-sized electric racing vehicles e.g. Formula E (yawn) brushless motors in model boats do make some noise and sometimes quite loud and when running fast aren't too dissimilar in sound to a diesel or glow-plug motor without all the mess …
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Re: 48" Aerokits Sea Queen
… t I wouldn't have been able to sail it anywhere. So the big brushless and a pile of soulless Lipos it will have to be. On the plus side, I won't have to clean all the spilt fuel and oil that inevitably gets everywhere.
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Re: 48" Aerokits Sea Queen
… to look at! As I have said plenty of times before, the new brushless motors have no soul - but they are much easier to live with, clean and easy to use and have more power too! Bob.
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Re: 48" Aerokits Sea Queen
… Queen kit on my 'to build' shelf. I think I even have a big brushless motor to go in it as Merco 60s are frowned upon in most clubs these days. One day, I might even build it!
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
… around 150-160 watts or a bit less under load, so any small brushless set-up that can comfortably put out 150watts+ should work well. I am intending to replace the original brushed motor in mine with a brushless I have just ordered, so I'll …
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
… around 150-160 watts or a bit less under load, so any small brushless set-up that can comfortably put out 150watts+ should work well. I am intending to replace the original brushed motor in mine with a brushless I have just ordered, so I'll …
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
… Remora. My current Remora has its own Blog on here and its brushless out-runner motor produces far more power than either of my glow engines could.