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Re: VINTAGE RUNABOUT
… ll this time, -but as I've said before,- there's always the brushless option for more power! JB
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H.M.S.SCIMITAR
… nly, planed really well, but the 3S battery overpowered the brushless motors. Inevitably one of the plastic couplings failed. The model continued to run on the one remaining screw, so this was not readily apparent. When turning the unexpect …
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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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Re: VINTAGE RUNABOUT
… he's putting on the beef At least I can always change up to brushless JB
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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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RIVER POLICE LAUNCH circa 1950
… ng red & blue lights. Power - Turnigy 3548 840KV out-runner brushless motor. Electronic Speed Controller – Hobbywing Quicrun 16BL 30 water cooled. Brass propeller -55 mm 3 blades. Battery pack - Turnigy 2200mAh 3S 25C Lipo Pack. Radio –Flys …
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Re: Motor and Propshaft
… was a free plan in MB many years ago. One good thing about brushless motors is the aircraft ESC's are cheap - and with your knowledge of electrics you should be able to sort out a reverse switch easily............ Will be following your bl …
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HMS SCIMITAR FTB
… onent physically. Biggest challenge came from the choice of brushless motors. An ESC is needed for each one. These are significantly the heaviest items, but have the best performance. Surveyed scores of ECSs and motors trying to arrive at t …
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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 …
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Motor Gunboat
… un boat from Bangladesh. Tried my best to upgrade it into a brushless one. First attempt was brushed and it was kind of a pain in the ass. It runs far better now.
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Gentleman's cruiser
… b with balsa wood of 1mm. 2300KV flash hobby motor with 30A brushless ESC. Normally use a lipo of 850maH for a 10minutes run. It has also a 2cell 2000mah Li-ion setup inside. Ask me anything if you want to know. Thank you, everyone!
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Re: Motor and Propshaft
… y are a little noisier but still probably not as noisy as a brushless motor anyway. I still go to the trouble of aligning the shaft and motor with a solid joint first and then replace it with an appropriate flexible joint. As demonstrated i …
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Motor and Propshaft
… ropshaft. The instruction booklet suggests fitting a 1500kV brushless motor which surprised me as I was expecting it to call for a brushed motor, but I thought 'why not?' so a suitable motor and ESC were ordered. First job once the motor ar …
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Robbe/Krick Paula IV
… standard 600 brushed motor. Instead, I opted for a 1700 kv brushless outrunner. I am adding lights, a working radar and another surprise that I will discuss later. I did the radar same as I did my first Paula, using a continuous rotation s …
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Re: (Fire Boat) Aerokits Crash Tender 46
… s the 46". I have one with a single Scorpion S4020-14 450kv brushless motor on 6S( a pair of 4000mah 3s), 120Amp ESC and a 2 blade 52mm CNC prop. To get it to sit up on the plane right, I had to install to batteries each side of the rudder. …
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LiPo Batteries and Charging problems
… . Not familiar with your Huntress model; but on my 34" long brushless, triple screw Brave Borderer running on a 5000mAh 3S battery running at speed gives under 60 mins operating duration. If you operating at near full speeds your run time i …
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VINTAGE RUNABOUT
… card using an IR remote. Had an issue with the high voltage brushless ESCs not liking being on the same power source (dual distribution board) as the water pump and glitching themselves and the sound unit badly. Fixed that by running the pu …
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Fairey Huntsman 31 (47” SLEC kit) build blog
… motor Turnigy G60 500kv (equivalent to a 61 glow!), 120amp brushless esc, propeller coupling, 18” propshaft, heavy duty metal gear servo and a few bits from my spares box. I will need other items like a 6S lipo and other bits, but I’ll ord …
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Re: Re: VINTAGE RUNABOUT
… ually cheaper than HK and the shipping better. The Banggood brushless ESCs are superior. Work straight from the box, no programming. So far, much more reliable. Was very disappointed recently when purchased HK LI-PO battery charger. It was …
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Re: Joffre
Colin, yes it is a brushless combonation bought as a package from cornwall Propellor is a 40mm 3 bladed alloy, I regreased the shaft and put prop on wrong way( now corrected) and boat reversed well but would not go forward have tried alteri …
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Re: Joffre
Excuse my ignorance, but is that a brushless setup. And which type of prop are you using, mine currently has a 35mm 4 blade brass prop. Motor not fitted yet but will hopefully be using vintage decaperm and 6 volt sla. My preferred ballast i …
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Motor and ESC
… -motors/industry-compact-dc-motors and only two of them are brushless of a similar can size to the standard brushed motor, i.e. around 36mm. https://www.johnsonelectric.com/en/product-technology/motion/ec-motors-brushless/industry-ec-motors …
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Motor and ESC
… agree Doug, wasn't quite sure if Martin was going to use a brushless motor, but I think his best bet would be to use the setup we have both mentioned, easy to work with, and less problems Cheers, Pete
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Motor and ESC
… eed Pete, IF it's a brushed motor! But Martin says he has a brushless. Then he needs the Hydra version of the Mtroniks Marine 15. And he might end up operating on the ESCs limt. Cheers, Doug
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Motor and ESC
Martin, that sounds okay to me. As I'm new to brushless I would ask one of our more knowledgeable members. Cheers Colin.
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Motor and ESC
… p i will be using is a two blade 35mm. And the 600 motor is brushless. I had been advised to use a 500 brushless motor with the combination i have mentioned. Martin555.
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Re: RNXS Exploit
… e internal pictures as requested. A pair of tornado thumper brushless. Perspex mounts. It was old and tatty internally so it’s been tarted up