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Yea! Very very purrrrty!@ (get it cuz it is a cat!) 
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Fleet: 55" Quad inline T600 Cigarette boat, Twin Mean Machine, Twin T600 47" mystery mono, 4082 Surge Crusher, 1717 8s Genesis, 4074 Villain, "mini mono", 52" Bonzi, Prather Funcruiser, 2 DPI 3.5cc tunnels, 5' Styrofoam recover barge -
very sweet indeed
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It did wonderful today with the K40's. Killer acceleration and low temps after a few minutes of run time. The core of the outrunners is getting hot though. ~150F. I'm starting to think I may need to adapt some sort of cooling plate to the front of the motor mount.
I'm comfortable enough with how it runs that I'll go ahead and put on the 442's. I think the motors have quite enough grunt to handle K45's, but a little concerned about motor temps without any added cooling...FighterCatRacing Team CHING BLING - Ching Bling. Brilliant, Advanced Sparkle for your hull.Comment
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If the mounts are aluminum you could attach some aluminum tubing with aluminum solder or to a plate and put it beween the motor and mount. or use one of those esc coolers they have here and cut it in two and use half on each side of the motor between the motor and mount.Fleet: 55" Quad inline T600 Cigarette boat, Twin Mean Machine, Twin T600 47" mystery mono, 4082 Surge Crusher, 1717 8s Genesis, 4074 Villain, "mini mono", 52" Bonzi, Prather Funcruiser, 2 DPI 3.5cc tunnels, 5' Styrofoam recover bargeComment
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I had a similar event with my big cat last week.
It was very nice on K40 props and after a couple of minutes the escs and packs were warm and the motors were quite warm, nearly hot.
I fired on a pair of K45 props and this thing went nuts. Wot was only an option down wind and that was hairy.
What was interesting was that when I bought it in after just over a minute the packs were quite warm, speedies were as warm as expected but the motors felt cooler than when the K40's were on there.
The 45's gave me a hell of a lot more performance and this showed in the pack temps but the motors seemed to like the bigger prop.
Just thought I would mention it as you are looking at the K45
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Had some fun with Das Boot this morning.FighterCatRacing Team CHING BLING - Ching Bling. Brilliant, Advanced Sparkle for your hull.Comment
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Sorry for the poor video, It ran out of memory and I can never tell when it's recording...
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OK, finally got some new motor mounts made and ready. Pete Z did the fancy aluminum carvings. Sweeeeet job for sure!
Getting ready to run twin 6s/1600kv w/K40 props to start ~1500 watts/per side. Should be a fun lil boat!
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Where do you buy your EC5 connectors Ben?
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I put 50pcs (100 bullet pairs) in an order at the beginning of the year with Hobbycity. I just don't use the blue casings and they make perfect bullets. At the time I was learning about brushless stuff and didn't know what I wanted to use/do. Just that Deans were $3/pair and EC5's were 1$ a pair so I bought a bunch.FighterCatRacing Team CHING BLING - Ching Bling. Brilliant, Advanced Sparkle for your hull.Comment
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Wow, the USB Linker for the Swordfish ESC's is an interesting piece...
Works though. Figured it out in Vista 64.
Somehow both sides were programmed differently and had some really messed up settings. 7.4v cutoff, mixed timing, etc. Not sure how that happened, but it was a bit disturbing and explains the puffed lipos when I ran to what I thought was the LVC.
So, now that they are straight, timing is right and new caps (over 12kuF) added with a 10 Ohm 5w resistor for anti-spark. Both ESC's are calibrated and ready to rock.
Bench test is exciting. The throttle control has an excellent feel to it.
Next up... WATER!
(can you find the ESC's in this photo? HINT: There are TWO of them. )FighterCatRacing Team CHING BLING - Ching Bling. Brilliant, Advanced Sparkle for your hull.Comment
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Looking good! She outta move real nice! Video?Comment
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If the batt's are over top the esc's beee carreful....
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I'm looking for 50's w/K40's. Probably upper 50's w/442's. May try the K45's if I get there, but that's really fast for this little hull.
Nope. Opposite ends of the boat. The ESC's are tucked under the hull and velcro'd along the drives... like the fly. Should help keep them cool.
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Wow! This thing is a ROCKET! It sounds wicked too! I have to lighten up the battery setup as the COG has it running really wet, but really fast!
Didn't last long though... hit a turtle and killed a nice new x442. The bump knocked the GPS off and didn't get a reading either...FighterCatRacing Team CHING BLING - Ching Bling. Brilliant, Advanced Sparkle for your hull.Comment
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