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To switch or not to switch ?
… ipo; 40A fuse; 90A marine ESC; 3 x 20A fuses; 46 x 50 870KV brushless motor. There are no switches in the circuit yet. 1.Should I have a switch serving the battery ? 2. If yes, what rating ? 3. Should I have a switch between the ESC and the …
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Identification help - not a Sea Rover?
… mpressed with the speed and handling as had fitted a 1250kv brushless. It now has a pumped water cooling system running from a separate battery and a new rudder as the original had a lot of wear. The 2 hatches were warped and ill fitting. I …
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Re: Chris Craft Cobra
Really great build, I have one of them and now run a brushless motor, but the finish is nothing like yours. Hope the water trials go well for you.
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Taplin-Baker Hydrojet, RKH products
… shing. Now, it would be fun to set this up in a boat with a brushless outrunner on say, 4-6 lipo cells and just go to town, but there’s cheaper and readily available alternatives for that. I don’t really collect much anymore, so I’m probabl …
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Re: Construction report whaler Rau IX 1 : 45
… ng for her to come back round the lake She now has a 1000kV brushless running off a 3S LiPo. Much better Cheers, Doug
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Re: Azure Spirit - Second trial run
… also got a Graupner Rhode Island F1 Tunnel Hull that has a brushless outboard on it but not had a chance to run it yet.
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Azure Spirit - Second trial run
After an upgrade from brushed to brushless, this is the result.
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Sea rover cabin cruiser
… s suitable for your use. I can't advise on a motor as I use brushless. Chris
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Think it will work?
… et 30 a rare beast 12v to 24v. May be better to go lipo and brushless if speed is your thing. Regards Roy
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Large lipo
… making a 1m long power boat which will be driven by a large brushless motor and a big lipo battery. The motor is is a 4240- 740, and the battery a 5 cell, 5000mAh. This is the first time I have used a large brushless and a big lipo, and I w …
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Large lipo
… erefore a single fuse is sufficient to open the circuit. In brushless motors my reasoning is this: If I put just one fuse on just one cable, in the event of an overcurrent it will open the electrical mesh relating to its winding. No more cu …
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Large lipo
… re any need to install fuses in all three motor wires for a brushless motor? Given the speed at which power is switched between each, wouldn't one fuse be sufficient? Only one is used in a brushed motor circuit. Chris
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Large lipo
… the three cables, connected to the respective windings. The brushless direct current motor normally powers the stator windings to create the rotating magnetic field, which (due to the effect of combined attractions and repulsions) will rota …
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Fairey Hunsman renovation part 6
NOW SOLD Hi, Have added two brushless motors prop shafts etc, twin rudders as per original boat and also a cabin roof. Did a test run (sorry no pics) but she was great, predictable and stable in rough conditions. I have started on the inner …
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NQD PX-16
… and thought I would add water cooling to a couple of cheap brushless ESCs that have been in my bits and bobs box. along with some spares for my FT011. In my computer box I had some heat transfer tape from a NVME SSD. So my ESCs had an inte …
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Shrimp fishing boat Capt CJ
… ted in Pine Island Florida. It is powered by a water cooled brushless motor. Battery is a 2S ( 7.4 v ) LiPo battery ( a 3S was way too much for it ) and it is still very fast. I run it at scale speed and the duration approaches an hour run …
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Re: NQD PX-16
… lly didn't plan well. but it was my first venture with twin brushless. https://model-boats.com/blogs/39797 Regards Roy
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(Racing Boat) NDQ Modified
… apped NDQ cheap hull, ripped out radio replaced motors with brushless 2845 2600kv add rudder/ servo, trim tabs and turn fins also added strakes to the underside, foamed the hull to make it unsinkable add radio link radio modified to control …
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Pcf Swift boat
… rge ( 4 ft long ) run scale like on a 2S ( 7.4 volt ). Both brushless and brushed motors. My newly acquired 6.5 ft long boat will need 3S battery running 3 geared motors. See how it runs in the water before going to higher voltage. My opini …
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Re: MAS 562 update
… rs and batteries and better buoyancy. I would use lipos and brushless motors and it will run well on the plan, construct with 1mm ply. If you want a small, and easy to construct model I would suggest a plastic kit made by Italeri discontinu …
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Connectors
My latest Turnigy brushless motor, a 4240, 740 has banana type plugs moulded on to the three leads which connect to the ESC. See picture. The pins of these plugs are 3mm diameter. I would like to know what these are. Are they 3mm bullet con …
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Heatsink Fins
All of my boat brushless motors and ESC are water cooled by design. That feature is built in. None of my brushed motors nor their ESC / BEC are water cooled. However, I run my boats at scale speeds ( slow ). I never had any overheating issu …
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Sea rover cabin cruiser
… r for the Crash Tender. I keep swapping from a brushed to a brushless and cannot decide which is the best for it.
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MANUFACTURERS AND SELLERS OF NAUTICAL PROPELLERS FOR RC MODEL BUILDING (USEFUL LINKS FROM ALL OVER T
… fessional rc hobby manufactory, mainly producing multi-pole brushless motors and racing boats. They have ability to design, develop and produce motors. I think they are Chinese from Guangzhou (near Honk Hong) but the pieces are not cheap. T …
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Re: Baby Bootlegger
Hi Peter, I am running a brushless 3660 motor, 60A speed control and a 2s 7.4v Lipo. I get about 25 minutes of run time. RR
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Using gears to match speeds
… I decided to do just that. Though I have used an oversized brushless motor, 35mm dia. in a 23" boat and tootling around everything stays cool. That motor is powerful and only driving a small 25mm prop so not working very hard at all. The m …
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Huntsman
… mit. I used to over power them when I ran IC engines. These brushless motors are now more powerful than IC's. It's just the cost of getting decent LiPo's. Now I am retired funds are not so available. I used to do extra overtime to fund thes …
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Huntsman
… Port corner. I plan to upgrade the 550 brushed motor with a Brushless motor. She then might lift off the water a bit more. She was running on a quite heavy 12volt lead acid battery. Next time (when I get around to it) she will run on a LiPo …