Electrified

[Danko]

I saw a couple of videos of it on you tube. The thing scoots! I dunno how good this idea is but I recently saw a local guy that scratch built a boat and it had a weed whacker engine in it. Not sure how effective that is. But he did it.

My boat is coming along good I have pictures but I'm on my tablet and I can't post pics here for some reason. And the plans finally got here. Mine is like 4 inches longer than the one on the Plan I thought the electrified was 22".

[jstolz]

I saw a couple of videos of it on you tube. The thing scoots! I dunno how good this idea is but I recently saw a local guy that scratch built a boat and it had a weed whacker engine in it. Not sure how effective that is. But he did it.

My boat is coming along good I have pictures but I'm on my tablet and I can't post pics here for some reason. And the plans finally got here. Mine is like 4 inches longer than the one on the Plan I thought the electrified was 22".

My boat is 20" long. A little longer would be better to keep it upright.

[Danko]

Ok here we go pics...20130114_143044.jpg20130114_214948.jpg

I'm still working on it The strut doesn't look right on the pic because it still wasn't glued inside on that pic. The other is of the motor attached on the inside and fitting stuff to see how much space there is inside. Plenty I would say

[Southwest]

Answers; the stuffing tube should be 7/16" from coupler . The strut should be level with the keel. The way to do this is to have a 1' ruler under keel and extend that outward toward the the dogdrive and including the dogdrive. The space at transom and bottom of strut should be equal at the dogdrive, follow me.

[Southwest]

Electrafied

You are only using 1 lipo, correct. If that is the case, the motor should be moved toward the transom and lipo placed crosswise in front of motor till you get the CG ( center of gravity ) which is 30%. Measure the lenght of boat to get the 30%. Now if boat is 22" Divide by 10 = 2.2" x 3 = 6.6" from transom =30%, follow me. You'll place receiver in left rear and rudder servo on the right rear and both fairly close to transom.----Let the stuffing tube extend 3" beyond the transom. I will be standing by!

[Southwest]

electrafied

Do me a favor, mark on boat where 30% is and take a picture so i can help some more, ok! I didn't have that much cable showing here and had only about 1/2" showing.

[Danko]

Crap I glued everything already. The measure from the transom to the end of the prop shaft is 2.5 inches If I am not mistaken. I understand you say 3". I guess it's nothing the good old dremel can't fix : ) Inexperience shows right here!

[Danko]

Plus I will have to move the motor too since I will be using one battery. Yeah I had calculated the CG at %30. But I haven't balanced it yet. Man what a mental **rt I should've though of that before gluing everything. For some reason my plane skills aren't transferring well into boating...I did test the motor and all and it runs great and the setup is smooth. but the balance could screw me up. I will check tonight.

[Southwest]

Easy answer. Take dremel and put a cut off wheel in. Next use carefully and cut with ease around motor supports and ease out. Next, place motor close to stuffing and then place lipo in front of motor and see where cg is at. My guess is this your going to have to cut stuffing tube after you pull cable out. I would cut 3/4" off the end of stuffing tube that's in the boat. Place motor and coupler close to cut off stuffing tube and leave 3/8" between stuffing tube and coupler. Then place lipo in front of motor to see where CG is at. 2.5" is fine. When it comes time to cutting the cable, measure many many many many times and measure again.

[Southwest]

electrafied

Now a gentleman from Netherlands said the motor was one of the best around. I have an electrafied with one of those motors in it and it zips real good. The stuffing tube has a liner in it, just use a pliers and pull it out before stuffing tube is cut. After you finalize everything just ease liner back in and if stubborn, just sand liner alittle and will slide back in with a hair of force.

[Southwest]

Ok, if cg doesn't work , you may have to cut more off the stuffing tube to get cg right but now is the time to do it and get it right. Won't hurt anything but stuffing tube will more than likely have to be bent to get alignment correct. Just use a right size drill bit in bending gently. Take your time.

[jstolz]

jstolz, what running gear you using? Motor?

The motor is a 27t Trinity brushed motor. The running hardware is Fuller 1/8" strut and rudder.

[Southwest]

I sent him a 1700 outrunner which can use 3S lipo. Stuffing tube is .130 with liner ( .130 ) and a blue HK 34mm prop with a brass tube inside prop for a step down cable shaft. I had a 05 brushed already for him but finding brushed crystals never came from California outlet, so had to go bl. I also made turn fins and trim tabs for him. I heard he epoxied the stuffing tube in and strut extended 2.5" which is fine. I have that setup in a couple of electrafieds. I have 2 sets of strakes on mine and they work great. I haven't heard from him for awhile. I'm retired and had some equipment left over and still have 20 some left in perfect shape. I've got a no step 1 and that thing really moves out. I'm helping like you did. I have the mag. for the electrafied and sent pictures but could get them sent for some reason. That's my story and i'm sticking to it,LOL!-----I make my own rudders and struts just for the sake of trying to see if i could make them and improve as i go, learn all the time.

[Danko]

WOW! This thing scoots! I can't believe the power on this thing! I didn't expect it to have this much power. I flipped it on the first run. And then I didn't dare to give'er more than %25 throttle. Next time I will try more power since I moved the battery to the front of the motor. Man I am hooked! I also lost the cover that I had put on top of the electronics but thats easy to make so...tomorrow I'll give it another try!

[Danko]

http://youtu.be/0r6_BXGaJzU

Here's a video of the boat. %75-60 throttle most of the time.