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!!!!! For those who followed my "is 40 too much to ask for" thread on my 32" cat on BJ26 motor and esc, its over for a while. I hadnt run the boat in about 2 weeks. I peaked out my 2 and 3 S batts this afternoon for a "quick" run. It turned into a 2 hour deal. Boat was runnin fantastic and for about 1 minute. Then it stopped dead, about 15 feet out from where I was standing. Wind was blowing towards me, but of course, it seemed all wind died as soon as the boat stopped. This happened before. A motor wire came undone out of the bullet. (motor side of the bullet on a BJ motor) Turns out one fell out and one came apart after I pulled on it. I re-soldered those 2 and left one alone. All that was 3 weeks ago. That my fellow boaters was my mistake. If 2 break, chances are the 3rd isnt far behind. Today, the other wire let go.. well, lets back up. As I said, the boat goes dead 15 feet out. I stood there for 30 seconds laughing because at the exact time the wind dies. 15 more seconds and I here a whistling sound and the deck of my hull begins to swell. 3 more seconds, the seem at the front lets go, big bang and A LOT of smoke. I quickly ran the 150 yards to the house, grabbed my rescue rig and dashed back to the scene. Smoking at settled, still above water line. I threw the rescue in and retrieved it. grabbed the hull out of the water and it was very hot. I slowly pulled the lid and was greeted w/ a lot more smoke and the most awful smell. The entire inside was covered in soot. Soot, is that how you spell that? Anyway, I expected to see a turnigy battery all puffed... but nope. Batts looked fine... Esc caps? Looked good. Wire popped out of the bullet I did not repair and also the positive wire had come out of the ESC. There was a nasty black glue like substance all over where the ESC was mounted. I dont know what happened? Perhaps it had something to do with the wire coming out. I was wiggling the steering servo just before it started whistling. And I tried throttling it 5 or 6 times. I dunno but this sux!!!! My kick butt boat is now in pieces, it stinks and the hull is blown apart in the front.
Heres some pics....
oh and Im also wondering if it had anything to do with not running an external BEC. It was on 5S. I ran it twice like this before w/ no problems.. no heat issues or anything. Then I added a bec. Then it was giving me lip so I took it out. Something today went amiss.
Oh, oh and... and... I burnt my brand new gps!!!! Son of a........
!!!!! For those who followed my "is 40 too much to ask for" thread on my 32" cat on BJ26 motor and esc, its over for a while. I hadnt run the boat in about 2 weeks. I peaked out my 2 and 3 S batts this afternoon for a "quick" run. It turned into a 2 hour deal. Boat was runnin fantastic and for about 1 minute. Then it stopped dead, about 15 feet out from where I was standing. Wind was blowing towards me, but of course, it seemed all wind died as soon as the boat stopped. This happened before. A motor wire came undone out of the bullet. (motor side of the bullet on a BJ motor) Turns out one fell out and one came apart after I pulled on it. I re-soldered those 2 and left one alone. All that was 3 weeks ago. That my fellow boaters was my mistake. If 2 break, chances are the 3rd isnt far behind. Today, the other wire let go.. well, lets back up. As I said, the boat goes dead 15 feet out. I stood there for 30 seconds laughing because at the exact time the wind dies. 15 more seconds and I here a whistling sound and the deck of my hull begins to swell. 3 more seconds, the seem at the front lets go, big bang and A LOT of smoke. I quickly ran the 150 yards to the house, grabbed my rescue rig and dashed back to the scene. Smoking at settled, still above water line. I threw the rescue in and retrieved it. grabbed the hull out of the water and it was very hot. I slowly pulled the lid and was greeted w/ a lot more smoke and the most awful smell. The entire inside was covered in soot. Soot, is that how you spell that? Anyway, I expected to see a turnigy battery all puffed... but nope. Batts looked fine... Esc caps? Looked good. Wire popped out of the bullet I did not repair and also the positive wire had come out of the ESC. There was a nasty black glue like substance all over where the ESC was mounted. I dont know what happened? Perhaps it had something to do with the wire coming out. I was wiggling the steering servo just before it started whistling. And I tried throttling it 5 or 6 times. I dunno but this sux!!!! My kick butt boat is now in pieces, it stinks and the hull is blown apart in the front. Heres some pics....
oh and Im also wondering if it had anything to do with not running an external BEC. It was on 5S. I ran it twice like this before w/ no problems.. no heat issues or anything. Then I added a bec. Then it was giving me lip so I took it out. Something today went amiss.
Oh, oh and... and... I burnt my brand new gps!!!! Son of a........
Im not so concerned w/ the front crack in the tunnel, its getting into the sponson tips (on the insides of the sponsons) that I cant figure out how Im going to get to. I could probably get my hands close to in there but the stringers are in the way. Thats another reason I was thinking of tearing it all out and starting over.
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