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Some of you may recognize this boat, as apparently I'm something like the 5th or 6th owner of this hull from this forum...
Anyway, I bought this late last year on the swap shop, but have been been busy with a bunch of stuff so it took a while to build her out.
Setup:
-Castle Creations 1518 1800KV motor (a beast!).
-CC Hydra 240A ESC
-5S2P 5000mah (so that's 10,000mah!).
The 5S2Ps are created with 2 sets of 3S1P + 2S1P wired in series, then each set run in // to the speed controller. The boat has a flood chamber so I like this config vs. 2 large 5S1P packs which would be difficult to place and have the boat self-right. You can see in the pics below how I have them arranged for the boat (the imaginary boat nose would be pointed to the right).
Hydra 240A ESC makes it handy to run a 2P config, as there are already 2 sets of leads for pos and neg (although you need to bridge these wires together to mix the power correctly).
Did a test run at the local pond, ran a little 442 prop, runs ROCK solid, probably mid 50's already...
Pulled the boat in after 2min, then after 5 more min, so 7min so far, everything is cool. I suspect I can hit 10min runtime with so much lipo capacity. After I nail down the runtimes, I'll try an X642 prop.
Will post some videos in a few weeks when we hit the larger lake.
Cheers!
Chief
Anyway, I bought this late last year on the swap shop, but have been been busy with a bunch of stuff so it took a while to build her out.
Setup:
-Castle Creations 1518 1800KV motor (a beast!).
-CC Hydra 240A ESC
-5S2P 5000mah (so that's 10,000mah!).
The 5S2Ps are created with 2 sets of 3S1P + 2S1P wired in series, then each set run in // to the speed controller. The boat has a flood chamber so I like this config vs. 2 large 5S1P packs which would be difficult to place and have the boat self-right. You can see in the pics below how I have them arranged for the boat (the imaginary boat nose would be pointed to the right).
Hydra 240A ESC makes it handy to run a 2P config, as there are already 2 sets of leads for pos and neg (although you need to bridge these wires together to mix the power correctly).
Did a test run at the local pond, ran a little 442 prop, runs ROCK solid, probably mid 50's already...
Pulled the boat in after 2min, then after 5 more min, so 7min so far, everything is cool. I suspect I can hit 10min runtime with so much lipo capacity. After I nail down the runtimes, I'll try an X642 prop.
Will post some videos in a few weeks when we hit the larger lake.
Cheers!
Chief
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