Wolf in Sheeps clothing

[Brushless55]

very cool!
that sucker should run real nice on 3s..

[NorCalZ71]

Lookin good! Cant wait to see what it'll do in the water.

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[Make-a-Wake]

Thanks guys,

Cooling now done too.......................whew! been a long one here. Get to run her Wednesday............

[gsbuickman]

Heya make a wake, I like the choice of esc's you used. How did you plug them both in ?. Did you solder the ends together, so they both run off the same plug ?. Or is their a sweet esc for dual brushless motors i dont know about ?.

I am going to be doing a build like this on my Villain IV. At the moment, It has twin 19t speed gems with an astro flight hydro esc, their pushing twin graupner metal props.

I like the build so far, its clean, simple and Sweet !!!!

[Make-a-Wake]

Thanks gs, Its ready to go if it would ever quit pouring here.........................maybe later today i can get her in.

[gsbuickman]

Oops, guess I didn't word that quite right. What receiver are you running to support dual esc's ?, or are you running a 2 channel receiver with the esc wires soldered together with a single plug ?. Thanks wake'

[NorCalZ71]

When using 2 identical esc's u can just use a servo splitter plug and run both from the same channel.

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[Make-a-Wake]

Oops, guess I didn't word that quite right. What receiver are you running to support dual esc's ?, or are you running a 2 channel receiver with the esc wires soldered together with a single plug ?. Thanks wake'

I have a Y harness that connects the two esc wire leads together in parallel..................i pulled the red wire from one of them before the Y split as should be done. I have a simple 2.4 ghz reciever, just two channel is all you really need. The ESC's are the Turnigy 60a version.............one is on top of the other.

Fingers crossed here for a good maiden cuz weather has cleared up!

[Make-a-Wake]

Well, she ran like crap the first time out. Bouncing and swaying side to side................hmmmm? I have swapped the prop rotations to what i believe is the correct way and have completely re-programmed the ESC's manually to make sure all the parameters match. I did another bench test and they fire up exactly together and rev out the same to the same top end. May have been a combo of prop rotation and esc's "off" a bit.

Gonna try and get out in the early a.m. for a quick run..................and vid.

[Make-a-Wake]

Video.................still got a bit of work left to do, i think the outdrives need a bit less neg to them. The Villain EX's i've seen really seem to run smoothly in comparison, i got some wobble and a bit of squirelliness to her..............

Camera on tripod, was by myself, and on 'autofocus' it kept trying to focus on the semi's going by..........bleh.........

3/4 throttle was the most at any time..............wasnt in the modd for retrieval today.......

[Make-a-Wake]

Any 'tweaking' advice? I added 8 oz. of weight between the motors to compensate for the lighter lipos...................i may have to take some neg. out of the outdrives........................anyone have rear end pics of how the EVX runs when trimmed well?

[gsbuickman]

Hhhhmmmm i may have a clue ??.

I may have a clue as to whats going on wake'. Back in the day, the stock motors that come with this are 30t counter rotating. The hot upgrades at the time were tamiya rs540 27 turners. My villain iv came with the original manual.

I think she might be just a lil' overpowered ?. She was never intended for this kinda power. Its like putting a blown 455 buick motor in a pinto'. Yeah it's cool and we love doing it too. I was looking at mine and thinking of adjustable trim tabs or turn fins, to help stabilize her. But there's really not much room on these.

You may have to do some prop swapping, a lil' smaller prop to handle higher r's without pushing so much water. But there's nothing like a way overpower boat skipping across the water though, It's a trade off. Wish I could run mine, but my boat holes mostly ice. My pal took his brushless apache out and lost it on the ice yesterday. They had to break the ice w/ rocks to get the boat back. Lucky for him.

I wanna see how this runs with this setup, so I know where to start. I'll compare it to the new villain and see what the differences are, might shed some light on the handling issues. Thanks !!!