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Brushed Motors
… te performance, before her recent renovation and upgrade to brushless. The destroyer was refitted with an ESC using a huge T03 type 2N3771 output transistor and relay reversing! Pic show's her sad state after 20 years of neglect while being …
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Re: Motor, Servo fitted. Fake engine room lifts out to access machinery.
… I've traditionally paired it with a 60 amp Dynamite marine brushless ESC and a 4450mAh 12.6v 3cell LiPo, all from Horizon Hobby. I try to keep everything interchangeable (same battery dimensions, same brand of motor etc) as I like experime …
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Re: Aerokits 1962 34.5" RAF Crash Tender rebuild, including interior.
… r converted to brushed motor, but now has a 2700kv inrunner brushless, with a Turnigy 120 amp ESC, and a 4 cell 5000mah 14.8v battery, not as nice looking as RobBob's boat, but she certainly gets on the plane quick, in less than 15ft, will …
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Re: Aerokits 1962 34.5" RAF Crash Tender rebuild, including interior.
… mation about Crash Tenders on this site. I’ve used a 1250kv brushless with a 3S LiPo and a 35mm prop on my 34” Crash Tender and it gets on to the plane easily. I have to be careful on the local pond not to create too much wake and upset the …
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Re: Aerokits 1962 34.5" RAF Crash Tender rebuild, including interior.
… have a website link? I'm going to use an E-flite #15, 950kv brushless Outrunner with 3C LiPo batteries, driving an Octura 450 three bladed propeller, 1.97” dia x 2.7” pitch. (more on that later!)
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Battery sizing
… rst (Turnigy). The motor is a Turnigy Aquastar 3974 2200 Kv brushless with Turnigy water cooled ESC. Prop is a single 50mm. Please can someone advise me on what size battery I need.
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(Life Boat) R.N.L.B. Maurice and Joyce Hardy
Lovely 1/16 Scale Trent Lifeboat Motors upgraded to Brushless and battery’s changed to LiPos
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Fitting out.
… e disappointed with the speed. I will probably upgrade to a brushless motor at a later date. Today I fitted the railings, added two of the ladders and then started on the windows only to find that I had left the canopy glue in the UK. Never …
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Norstar Wave Rider
… That will need to come out. I will probably put in a small brushless after cleaning her up and repainting.
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Re: Caltex Lumba Lumba
… sion - as MB says a really nice model . Are you going to go brushless & lipos or stick to brushed motors with NIMH?
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34 inch Crash Tender refit
… he reason the boat had been in dry dock for 45 years. A new brushless motor, water cooled ESC and 3S LiPo battery were installed in place of the diesel. The propeller also needed replacing as the old one was too large. This identified the f …
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Re: Rear deck test
… p. The 34" boat, I burnt out the motor some how so fitted a brushless + 2S Lipo. Goes very fast!
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Re: Fairey Spearfish
… a couple of suggestions for the conversion of your hull to brushless. Did similar on a Sea Scout of similar dims. Can then see about shifting your posts here to the new thread. Cheers, Doug @ Chris, your posts re the Spearfish may be bette …
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Re: Fairey Spearfish
… water well, but I wonder how evil she will be with either a brushless motor or maybe even the brushless outboard I have got. Well at least the smaller one out of the 2 of the ones I have got. I have a larger one and that's mounted on a F1 T …
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Re: Fairey Spearfish
… re is film of them on U Tube. Enjoy the model. Would suit a brushless motor and either Lipo cells or Nickel metal hydride. Regards Kevin
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Re: Fairey Spearfish
… ts to my collection in this year. Three motors as well. One brushless outboard and 2 vintage electric motors. Both Taycol motors, I will probably put one on Ebay and I am hoping to fit one into one of my old Aerokit refurb's. It's frustrati …
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Re: Fairey Spearfish
… he's still in the box untouched. I plan to build her with a brushless now. I do have a SC 61 & 2 x 91 marine engines in my shed that I intended to use one of those in her. I will be putting in a brushless now due to the bans on most ponds b …
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Re: (Naval Ship) PT 109
If and when I do go brushless I will probably look on Ebay for a gun to put on the front deck. I do have a Brushless motor and a ESC new already, I don't know if it will be powerful enough for her being just over 4ft long. The motor I have …
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Re: SEAPLANE TENDER, CHANGE OF ESCs
… tly for what they are designed for. I bought some small 30A brushless ESCs a while back and when I asked the seller if there was a card for them he told me they didn't make one . With a bit of detective work I found a card under a different …
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LATEST SMOKER, E-CIG ELEMENT
… e, so the PTC (I think) thermistor between the coils on the brushless motors burnt out (just circulating its own air). All you had to do was replace them with a bit of 5A fuse wire and you had a good fan, (some were only months old). Fitted …
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TRIAL FITTING SMOKE UNIT TO THE HSL
… it at all Martin as it has more than enough power with the brushless motors (will do around 12mph flat out ). Only problem is, being a bit heavy, the exhausts and water outlet are just on the waterline at rest, and like all of those early …
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Re: MORE SMOKER STUFF 2
… oo small to fit much in. The HSL (36") has 2 sound units, 2 brushless in-runners, 2 ESCs, 2 remote switches, water pump 3x 2s LiPos, a separate 3v dry cell pack for lights and now a smoker,- it's fully loaded, - lucky it still floats !! JB
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Re: Fairey Spearfish
… ter to the hobby, about 3 years ago, so I've only ever used brushless (well apart from my Club 500 which was already built). The hull will probably be the only part that I use. Just realised that this build and the Huntsman 31 Sport will be …
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Re: Fairey Spearfish
… ut don't use the marlin 850 as suggested, best way to go is brushless & Lipo's. Cheers, Peter
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Re: More hull work
… an old Goldberg Mirage airplane a few years ago and used a brushless outrunner to power it, the 550 motor was included in the kit. The Carl Goldberg company used that motor in both the Mirage and Electra sailplanes, when I was an avid avia …
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Re: 34" Vosper RAF Crash Rescue Tender - Aerokits model
… gh, but there are so many different opinions!! - 600 or 850 brushless being the most common. M-troniks recommended their G2 Hydra50, which I quite like the idea of, as they are UK based, and "waterproof". I'll do some comparisons of similar …
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Re: 34" Vosper RAF Crash Rescue Tender - Aerokits model
I did a refurbish on one I got on eBay Fitted 2 brushless HPD 2920-4000 with 60a hawk esc’s running with 30 mm 3blade props also fitted rubber gaiters on top of rudder shafts as they were very close to the water line and I kept getting wate …
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Re: 34" Vosper RAF Crash Rescue Tender - Aerokits model
I did some searching on the web and found some info on brushless motor sizes and suggestions based on the length of the hull. Needless to say, I can't find it again when I searched today so that I could let you have the link It was 4-5 mont …