Conversion advice

[Darin Jordan]

Here is the ProBoat I converted to FE... Ran it on 12-cells stuffed into the very front, with a Neu Motor and a Prather 215 Prop... Was absolutly ballistic... but it took a LOT of refining of the hull to get it that way... The sponsons need a lot of work... the hull needs rigidity added to the bottom... and there is VERY little room...

I'm actually considering taking it back off the shelf and trying it on 2S Lipo power... I think it would fly and the weight wouldn't hurt at all given the current power levels available... I'm NOT a big "round-bow" fan, so it would be nice to have something nice and modern looking that could be competitive...

Sealing it from water was a trick, but I overcame that one as well.... I'll dig up some more pics tonight when I get home and post some of them for you... I think you'll get some fresh ideas of how to go about this...

It's tough to get enough weight in the front of this boat to get it balanced... but it can be done... I'm curious as to how well that Llumar ran with so much weight in the back... These are a little draggy in the back anyhow, so I'd think you'd want to get that weight as far forward as possible...

Again, I spent about 2-weeks of filling and sanding and filling and sanding to get the sponsons tuned correctly... From the factory, they are all over the place... A lot of work for a boat that is such a pain to opereate (due to lack of room and difficulty to get sealed...)... And... Don't hit anything... Doesn't take much to expode one of these hulls...

[SJFE]

Awesome looking boat. What motivated you to use that hull instead of buying one of the avalable H&M hydro hulls?

[Doby]

Just back form the pond:p
Navibe informs me that on 14 cells of my home made IB4200's packs,,,,,,,,,,38.5 Mph,,not to bad,,,I'm resonably happy with that.
Now time to try different props:D

[Doby]

Just uploaded 3 videos to RC Flix of the Llumar, I ahve no idea where they went to , my profile says I have not loaded any thing ?????????/
This is frustrating

[Darin Jordan]

ProBoat Conversion to 2006 Miss Oberto

Here are those additional pics I promised:

[Doby]

Just tried it again, everything says it was uploaded successfully,,,still can't find it anywhere on the site,,,,, I give up,,,can someone explain where these video's dissapear to and why the search function can't find any of them ,,,that site does not appear very user friendly

[saleens7]

try uploading them to youtube or asnt their origional format in windows movie player when you first load them to the comp, cant you just give a link to that?

speaking of wich, when i upload my vids, when they are first uploaded to the computer(not to a site) i can view them in windows movie player, but i cant figure out how to give links to that vid, i see it done all the time where you can view vids in WMP. format...and they lose a lot of qualty when uploaded to a site....

[Steven Vaccaro]

Once they upload you you will see a page asking you to confirm the upload. I dont think you got that far. Email one of them to me and I will try to upload it.

[SJFE]

I havent had much luck uploading there either

[Doby]

Hi guys , Steve , I did get the confirmation request , clicked on it and it said i was successful
Maybe it just doesn't like me or SJFE :rolleyes:

[SJFE]

Guess not...lol

[Diegoboy]

Alright, 1 more step closer to completion. I got the SV27 ESC (Thank you Avengersteve)!!! Just waiting on the part from Doby, a motor, and the batteries. I can't wait to get her wet! :p

[Diegoboy]

Big Thanks to Doby! The part has arrived.

Thank you!:D

[Doby]

Thanks and hope it works as good as it has for me, I'm currently running 4 props in this manner and no problems with balencing or anything else . So when is the ETC of the project ?

[Diegoboy]

Just sinking funds into the renegade rigger, mini-V convertion, and this Miss Bud. When I get the Motor, & mount it. Get Battlepack to make my batteries, it'll be ready. :D