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… iPo should do nicely for a scale speed. Alternative; a 28XX brushless around 750 - 1000kV. A battery of 4000mAh and up and an ESC rated circa 20Amp continuous should give you a running time of an hour or so with little or no risk of anythin …
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battery drill motor
… ry for amps so short run times - would be much better to go brushless - more power - less amps - longer run times- even without Lipos In the old days using a heavy draw 400 in my Avatar boat got good speed but only about 5 minutes good run …
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battery drill motor
… ry some different props and lipos, you can hook up two 540s brushless with this esc, I have used the two + wires and the 2 _to hook up. Graupner 700 brushed motors in my PT 109 and 34" Crash tender using this esc and lipo batteries give a h …
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Shaft Movement
… tap and twist method from RNinMunich to rectify it The new brushless motor and shaft were aligned using an alignment tube so all was good two years when the Crash Tender last saw the light of day. Instead of concentrating on my other post …
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Lockdown project
… . I changed the flat bottom hull to a V and put in a 1400kv brushless. The cabin and upper deck was changed to match pictures I had found and a few other changes. I've installed revolving radar, 50cal sound emitter, search light and pursuit …
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A few scale boats for sale at present in NZ
… autiful 6'4" custom built Hatteras ? sport fisher (twin 840 brushless, -$2500)very old perkasa,($105), an evinrude electric o/b (1961, - up to $380 so far) and scale 1910 French yacht Louise Heloise (1.8m supposedly?) $300 +
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New member advice required on what to use
… suming that picture is generic, its not your finished boat? Brushless motors are fine for any application, the choice after the spec is outrunner, or inrunner, the former probably the cheaper and more readily available. Just ensure that you …
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46"Wooden RAF Crash Tender
… ormative and explained the KV’s , torque and other specs of brushless motors which means for the first time I am starting to understand the properties / performance of a brushless motor . Unfortunately with the exception of our old Chairman …
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46"Wooden RAF Crash Tender
… ere. In Summary Ray, keep your esc, its fine, but is it for brushless, and does it reverse? how many cells will it take? motor, needs to be in region of 1000kv or a bit less to haul the heavy hull, and consider its only a single screw. size …
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46"Wooden RAF Crash Tender
… . A heavy boat wanting speed has a play off. I then went to brushless in runner. 900kv, running off 6 cell lipo, faster at 22mph, 10 mins runtime, lipos depleted. I then went to a number of outrunners, as they were cheaper. At the time, nea …
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46"Wooden RAF Crash Tender
… ve me advice on which motor I should use ~ all my boats run brushless except the bow thruster in my Tamar Life Boat . Most of my boats are 36” long ~ GRP / Plastic ( I have a fleet of 5 Arriva Boats that are wood )so the RAF Crash Tender be …
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46"Wooden RAF Crash Tender
… have. Does it have two wires (i.e. brushed) or three (i.e. brushless)? You mention 'kv' which suggest a brushless motor. Both being water cooled doesn't mean much (except agro with the installation!). What matters is that the voltage and c …
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46"Wooden RAF Crash Tender
… y Brave Borderer (about 36"), which has three screws, outer brushless (30mm dia) motors, and the centre brushed.The max current draw, per brushless motor, is under 30 A. There is a video of it on this site and at max speed it is more that f …
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46"Wooden RAF Crash Tender
… he motor, so don't know if you are talking about brushed or brushless set up. My Fireboat was twin screw, two brushless outrunners capable of 25mph, as I recall amp draw on fresh lipos (4 cells per motor) was approx. 60a and I doubt you wil …
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Nostalgia
More - not much new around other than brushless motors - believe hydrojets date from the 1860's
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Hints & Tips - Covid 19
… lock-down. Was anxious to check the ESC programming of the brushless motors in my RAF RTTL project under water load. Used an idea had once seen tried by another modeller. Have refined the idea into a Hi-Tech version using constant water to …
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Nostalgia
… still going strong. Took it out of my Sea Scout during the brushless upgrade. The 'perm was much too sedate for the Scout. Would be good for tug towing competition though Cheers, Doug Ps Glad to see your pics are behaving themselves now
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ESC Wiring (Turnigy)
… f the issues raised by my wheelbarrow test was that neither brushless motor would run smoothly. Decided to investigate as one ESC wire had also pulled out of the pin. Determined on these ESCs, that all the wires going into the plugs are jus …
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ESC Wiring (Turnigy)
… g me on to the Quicruns three years ago when I was still a 'brushless novice' and asked for advice on upgrading my Sea Scout. It worked a treat and still does
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ESC Wiring (Turnigy)
… 2 x Turnigy 50A Escs we have been talking about. It has HK brushless motors and the limited trials have, so far, always been terminated because of either motor water leaks or the wire problem. Think may have resolved both issues. My future …
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ESC Wiring (Turnigy)
… 0 connectors on the PTB. "Beginning to wonder if some of my brushless reservations could be linked to this issue." I don't think crimped or soldered was / is your issue there. Having looked a the Turnigy specs of the ESCs you appear to have …
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ESC Wiring (Turnigy)
… ctors, had miserable luck with Tamiya. Will try 2 x Quikrun brushless ESCs on my next project; from your experience they sound better than the Turnigys. Must agree the programming steps are coarse and could well be a contributor to my chall …
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ESC Wiring (Turnigy)
… ob to reinforce with solder. Did not realize they also made Brushless ESCs, suppose it is too much to hope the HobbyKing programming card will work with them? Afraid, in the current circumstances the Chinese are not on my Christmas card lis …
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ESC Wiring (Turnigy)
… stick to the HobbyWing Quicrun series, for both brushed and brushless. Have had no trouble at all with them and find them very easy to program, using the HobbyWing Program Cards with LED display. Including Soft / Progressive Start (7 steps …
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Perkasa Refurb
… eep things simple, Im not going to do my usual convesion to brushless, and luckily found a new Electronize esc in my spares box. Cant find anything in relation to instructions, But Im sure these where good for two motors?, Ive fitted an inl …
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First Disaster
… ting. 1MPH. It has never run since. But soon. Nice powerful brushless going in soon. Probably hit something and sink.
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Receiver Controlled switch
… red a bunch of stuff from Krick Including a pair of Quicrun brushless ESCs for my PTB restoration. Getting supplies in is somehow therapeutic Except to the bank balance! But we gotta have summat to do during our incarceration don't we? Chee …
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RC help
… post a picture to help confirm. Most likely brushed though, brushless are not as popular