When you pull to many amps........Boom

[skidooguymxz550]

thought id share this. it happened back in july but i could never get the pics on the hardrive.


blew a hole in the hull and weakend everything. blew the motor mount out of hull. blew the hatch off but it stayed on by a thread of tape

[Doozie870]

Looks like the batts lived up to thier name. that was a boom!!

[ReddyWatts]

Did it go boom or ba-boom? lol

Glad no one got hurt.

[skidooguymxz550]

it sounded like a shotgun. i'm glad they wern't charging on our porch. my mom would cut me and my dad off from rc


it was a very manly boom. you could here the air pressur blow the hatch off. the battery casing was loged into the expanding foam in the front

[kck741]

Holy smokes really HOLY SMOKES

[Jeepers]

Boom Boom batteries huh! I think I would be nervous about buying batteries with a name like that attached to them

[ED66677]

yeah Kck741!!! HOLY SMOKES!!!

how many amp did you pull?

[Steven Vaccaro]

Wow. Any pictures of the hole in the hull? Did it crack the hull/deck seam?

[skidooguymxz550]

i could get a pick. it's about the size of a quarter, so i just epoxied it. the joint was fine but the hairline cracks keep pooping up in the gel coat every where

[FE_Chris]

Hey dude, looks like you where running a HV-maxx system? I see the novak all over the gear, and 12 cells, long can....

That motor setup was NOT made for marine use. I am sure with a gear drive you could do something with it, but I have read of lots of issues with those..

I feel for ya.....Just thaught you would like to know. I once was gonna use my HV-Maxx in a boat, but I sold it cause people told me not to. The last post I read about one, the guy kept blowing the motor out cause of the load.

So when the hole blew in the hull, did it start to sink?

[skidooguymxz550]

don't worry, i haven't used it since the first ten runs or so. i now run a 14xl on twenty cells .


no it didn't, the hole was in the freeboard luckily

[mr.mauian]

I have done it twice with max amps batts 4.4k and it blew my hatch off and the floatation off, luckily it was shallow water...lol.