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Hey all, thought I'd share a project I'm working on.
I commissioned Wayne Farrow to lay up an R 42 hull for me with both the full and half hatches so I could set it up for both gas or electric.
I plan on running a Gizmo 30+ modified and I also have an SSS 56123 500kv motor and a ZTW Seal 300A Esc.
I ran this electric set up in my 48" mono that previously had a 30 modified engine in it and it ran as fast or maybe a little faster on the 12s set up.
I ran just two 5000 mAh 6s batteries in series before on the mono and it did pretty good running the same props that I ran using the 30cc gas engine.
The run time wasn't too good though and the batteries were pretty old and getting puffed from years of use.
This time I'm going with four batteries. I have a new set of 7200 6s batteries that I plan on running in parallel with the others for a total of 12200 mAh on 12s.
I can switch out the electric motor and install the gas engine in about 20 minutes. I just made a different model memory in the Futaba controller to handle the different throttle settings.
When running this in the mono hull before the motor and esc were barely warm so I think it is a fairly conservative set up. I just need to pick up some more 7200 mAh batteries.
Wayne told me to go with the strut through the bottom of the hull on this boat so I did. It will be the first time I've done it that way. All my other boats over the years have been done in the more traditional way off the rear outside.
Looking forward to playing around with this one.
Has anyone else run the SSS 56123 500kv or something close on 12s. What props did you run? I have a bunch of props from 65mm to 80mm all different pitches and 2,3, and 4 blades to try out.
Oddly enough, on the mono changing props really didn't seem make a whole lot of difference, at least it didn't seem to make as much of a difference as it does on the gas engine or my smaller fast electrics.
Any thoughts or tips appreciated. 20240530_162228.jpg20240530_162050.jpg
I commissioned Wayne Farrow to lay up an R 42 hull for me with both the full and half hatches so I could set it up for both gas or electric.
I plan on running a Gizmo 30+ modified and I also have an SSS 56123 500kv motor and a ZTW Seal 300A Esc.
I ran this electric set up in my 48" mono that previously had a 30 modified engine in it and it ran as fast or maybe a little faster on the 12s set up.
I ran just two 5000 mAh 6s batteries in series before on the mono and it did pretty good running the same props that I ran using the 30cc gas engine.
The run time wasn't too good though and the batteries were pretty old and getting puffed from years of use.
This time I'm going with four batteries. I have a new set of 7200 6s batteries that I plan on running in parallel with the others for a total of 12200 mAh on 12s.
I can switch out the electric motor and install the gas engine in about 20 minutes. I just made a different model memory in the Futaba controller to handle the different throttle settings.
When running this in the mono hull before the motor and esc were barely warm so I think it is a fairly conservative set up. I just need to pick up some more 7200 mAh batteries.
Wayne told me to go with the strut through the bottom of the hull on this boat so I did. It will be the first time I've done it that way. All my other boats over the years have been done in the more traditional way off the rear outside.
Looking forward to playing around with this one.
Has anyone else run the SSS 56123 500kv or something close on 12s. What props did you run? I have a bunch of props from 65mm to 80mm all different pitches and 2,3, and 4 blades to try out.
Oddly enough, on the mono changing props really didn't seem make a whole lot of difference, at least it didn't seem to make as much of a difference as it does on the gas engine or my smaller fast electrics.
Any thoughts or tips appreciated. 20240530_162228.jpg20240530_162050.jpg
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