First boat, Delta Force 35" Pirate

[Chuck E Cheese]

up ti 1/2" is ok on the motor side between teh coupler and tube

[millzee]

With .187 cable I would go no more than a quarter inch of space, a little more or less is ok too..... as far as an esc mount , no stand needed, any angle is fine as long as its secure..

Thanks mate, I'm going away for the weekend for my sons birthday so I'll have to hold off the build for a few days, back into it on Monday and hope to be testing on the water next week end. I really appreciate the advise and answer to all my silly newbie questions.

[millzee]

up ti 1/2" is ok on the motor side between teh coupler and tube

Thanks mate!!!

[millzee]

The build is comming along well but I'm just not to sure how short I can make the 1717 motor wires? and the s/fish 240hv wires? I'm thinking I'll need to take about 3" off the motor wires and about 1 1/2" off the esc motor wires, is this ok to do? without running into soldering problems??

[millzee]

The build is comming along well but I'm just not to sure how short I can make the 1717 motor wires? and the s/fish 240hv wires? I'm thinking I'll need to take about 3" off the motor wires and about 1 1/2" off the esc motor wires, is this ok to do? without running into soldering problems??

Just wanna add one really dumb question, can the esc be mounted upside down eg. plate with sticker facing down?? sorry, I know it's silly but I just need to know.

[CharlieBucket]

Millzee,
I'm interested to see your progress. Do you have any recent photos?

[millzee]

Just wanna add one really dumb question, can the esc be mounted upside down eg. plate with sticker facing down?? sorry, I know it's silly but I just need to know.

anyone?

[johnson22456]

anyone?

It doesnt matter.

[millzee]

here's a few pic,s of how I'm doing, which of the esc posi's would you go for, if I put it across the front of the motor, I'll be able to put a flat section in and strap it down, if I put it up along side the motor I'll just velcro it in. This is why I need to know how short is too short on the wires? and if I can mount the esc upside down across the front of the motor.

[millzee]

I just received my speedmaster 4" set back dual pick up rudder that I ordered from here in Oz and was shocked to find that $97 bucks was the price shipped. Damn hard to support local!!! I guess my impatience has cost me again. It fits a lot better and is almost in line with the dog drive.
I think I've answered my own question about the wire lengths from my last post but I would still like someone to let me know if it matters which way facing up on the esc?

[Chuck E Cheese]

no it doesnt, there is no top and bottom to the esc

[millzee]

no it doesnt, there is no top and bottom to the esc

THANK YOU

[millzee]

a few things I got done tonight, made up a Esc mount that I will be able to lift up out of the way if I need to take out the motor or do anything to the coupler, I'm also hoping it'll act like a bit of a sheild for the esc. I installed the servo and made a plate out of perspex for the rx and battery, I'm a tad unsure what I'll do with the rx on/off switch at this point but I have a few ideas. Tomorrow I hope to install the water cooling system, battery straps, more floatation and wire it all up properly and get this ready for testing. All is going well now, the COG is somewhere between 26% and 33%, I'm not too sure how to work out the exact %. The boat with everything in it is weighing in at around 4.7kg's (10.3lb), should I care too much about that as I'm not really racing or anything? For the cooling lines, I'm thinking of running 2 copper pipe from just inside the transom, 1 up to the motor and one to the esc, I found some thread about the pop rivet outlets so I'll just use them.
A few quick question comming off the copper pipe with silicone tube, I assume it'll go into the esc at the top, through to the otherside and then is it best to just loop it down to the bottom one or will it have a better effect to run it back across to the bottom inlet on the same side as the original inlet and then back out the other side making one side of the esc both inlets and the other outlets?

[millzee]

just a few more pic's

[millzee]

the COG is somewhere between 26% and 33%, I'm not too sure how to work out the exact %. The boat with everything in it is weighing in at around 4.7kg's (10.3lb), should I care too much about that as I'm not really racing or anything? For the cooling lines, I'm thinking of running 2 copper pipe from just inside the transom, 1 up to the motor and one to the esc, I found some thread about the pop rivet outlets so I'll just use them.
A few quick question comming off the copper pipe with silicone tube, I assume it'll go into the esc at the top, through to the otherside and then is it best to just loop it down to the bottom one or will it have a better effect to run it back across to the bottom inlet on the same side as the original inlet and then back out the other side making one side of the esc both inlets and the other outlets? or does this not matter?