56" Cat. My First Boat build!

[iridebikes247]

yea, nvm the rust. its clear now

[Rocstar]

56" Cat. My First Boat build!

"You gotta be kidding me"....Wrong way.....

[Cooper]

Yea I kinda agree on all the above. Are your props spinning inward or outward? I wasn't going to say anything but now its out. To me it looks like an unwound cable. Look through the Teflon, you can see the direction. And the unwind is on outer layer, as can be seen the inner layer is tight. Kinda a give-a-way. :) I'm no detective but a fan of Mr. Obvious.

Twisted, when you attach your flex cables just carefully look at the wind of the cable. Now imagine the direction the motor is turning the cable. Now the prop will be resistance, so if you have resistance on the other end and it will twist the windings tighter then that is the correct direction for that cable. Still not sure then just take a napkin and twist it, now figure out which way will tighten it and which way will make it come apart. Most of the time people have the props turning inward towards each other. If you were looking at the back of the boat and the direction of the tops of props. You can have them turning outward also but will have to switch cables to accommodate direction of rotation.

[twissted]

It's the wrong wind on the cable. The replacement I have in know looks to be the one that should have went in. I'm working on the servo horn made of carbon fiber. It will be shorter so that the steering isn't so touchy. Thanks for your help guys. I hope to be tuning, so that I can I get max speeds. The paint will come later. These are 6 pole motors and getting the speed controls set to the motors is also something that will be looked at. From the sound of the hull while running sounds good and solid. It doesn't get to plain as fast as my Zonda. That could be from the hull design, or just some tuning of the stinger. I have a lot of things to learn. This is fun for me at this point.

[twissted]

Here is a SSS5694 800kv motor is a hull that is like mine.

[twissted]

here is another SSS5694 motor that is moving this 45" hull with ease and it is using the same esc's that I'm using.

[twissted]

I thought I would post this. I pulled out the reconditioned hull to work on the inside of the hull so that it is stronger. I added epoxy to the sides with fiberglass mat. It's not pretty but it is strong. I have a little more to do and I will take it out for the 2nd time and see if it will be out for the summer or just out!
I'll never buy anything from Fightercat again!
As for the videos they show the boats doing well with power and at a low price. And that is my point. To build my first boat cheap and Cheap it is. Cheap piece of crap hull with cheap components. I'm not even going to upgrade as this build started as crap and polishing a turd is all this build is.
As for the motors I like them and they make a lot of power.

[twissted]

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