Darin's Wild Thing 32" P-Mono Build

[peells]

Well is your battery packs 2-3-s or 2-2s in series or parallel? your boat looks real nice and very detailed. Did you paint it your self?

[Darin Jordan]

Well is your battery packs 2-3-s or 2-2s in series or parallel? your boat looks real nice and very detailed. Did you paint it your self?

The packs are TWO 4S in parallel... 4S2P 4500 Elite 30C.

I did paint it myself. Thank you for the kind words...

[peells]

Well did you video it yet? I want to see, and I do not think you drive that bad if you took third, look at my blog and see how bad I drive, But my boat goes pretty fast, I think I am going to step down to the 4s like you I am currently running 2 3s packs in series,with a feigao 11XL, and I made my own motor mount out of aluminum plate. follow the link off my avatar.

[ED66677]

that's really nice!

[peells]

Hi Ed from France
Nice job on your hardware!!

[ED66677]

thanks Peter! It a kind of new approach I'm testing here, nothing exceptionnal just two rigid shaft, one in the stinger, on in the motor bell, and a little piece of 4mm flex between, so no issue with teflon tubing and leakage, the piece of flex is outside of the hull, in the water! certainly heavier than a standard flex drive but I planning to make a new plastic light weigh one.

[Viking]

Beautiful !
The hardware you are running puts the prop several inches behind the transom( there must be a reason for that) then you put 4 trim tabs on the transom. in effect moving the transom back an inch or so, which moves the prop closer to the transom. Why not just put the prop an inch closer to the transom to begin with?
Viking

[Darin Jordan]

Beautiful !
The hardware you are running puts the prop several inches behind the transom( there must be a reason for that) then you put 4 trim tabs on the transom. in effect moving the transom back an inch or so, which moves the prop closer to the transom. Why not just put the prop an inch closer to the transom to begin with?
Viking

The short answer is:

Tabs adjust... transoms don't...

Works so far! :D

[ED66677]

I wanted to have the prop 10 to 12% away from the transom but as this trans is a prototype, I kept the prop shaft long enough according to the hull I would install it on, originally I wanted a DF33" and finally end up with a 29"!
It will be shortened as well as the rudder arm soon.

[peells]

I am sure that with 4 trim tabs you can really dial that wild thing in......Right? Did you make your own battery packs from cheapbatterypacks.com? or dd you buy them already assembled?

[Charlietuna1]

Just bringing this thread back to life so I can find it a little easier later on

[Darin Jordan]

Wow, I guess. Blast from the past! Was a fun boat. Hope you find this helpful.

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[Charlietuna1]

If your pics are viewable, yes it will be. So far I’m only able to view the motor in the first post

[Darin Jordan]

If your pics are viewable, yes it will be. So far I’m only able to view the motor in the first post

OH, Yeah... Me too... Hmmmm... I don't know where those are now. Here is what I have at the moment here, after repainting. Shows the HW setup though.


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[Darin Jordan]

Ignore those turn fins... Make/use something more like this:

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