Traxxas Spartan about to arrive Monday morning. ..

[Heaving Earth]

So you are going to run two 4s packs?

[Zackthrills]

I'll tell you the difference with having a big boat going those speeds is pretty cool. It looked amazing on the water. so my goal is to get this boat as fast as I can possibly make it run and keep practicing with it while I build or have someone build me a nice Genesis boat

[Zackthrills]

No i have two 2s packs I'm going to put in it. as I almost made the mistake and put two 4s packs in it.lol I thought when everyone was saying they were running6s that they had two packs in there.lol that would have been a melt down

[Heaving Earth]

Well two 2s packs is gonna be much slower than two 3s packs "shrug"

[Heaving Earth]

Yeah you should be running two 3s packs to get 6s

[Zackthrills]

yeah I will I'm going to sell the 2 4s packs I have and get me 2 3s packs

[MAMBA2200]

I ran 2 3s packs in mine for 6s they were in series

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[Heaving Earth]

You can run two 4s packs but it needs to be wired parallel not series like the boat is pre wired

[Heaving Earth]

Well zach, just have some fun for now. Don't be unrealistic about your goals. Even getting from 50mph to 60 takes some time if you want to do it without swimming after your boat all day. As far as batteries go, once you start putting bigger motors it takes more juice to run them, and running two3s packs is gonna be tough on those packs. Runtimes will be cut way down. Take some time to learn about how all this stuff works.... It doesn't happen overnight.
Glad your kids are having fun

[jetskier]

I would like to see your MG 17 with brushless setup, I sold mine cause it was a dog even for my son. Got a Atomik Barbwire and that think rocks!!!

all I know is the boys had a great time doing it. I also plan on having the Geico 17 up and running within the next day or two. And will post that video and I think it will nasal lot of people how fast I got the bruhed motor boat to run with its new brushless setup.

[Zackthrills]

here is a video of the boat itself and you can see the work that I've done to it. Granted it is just a toy project and it took a lot of abuse.here is the link to the YouTube video I just did forit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2X_...e_gdata_player let me know what you think.

[Zackthrills]

I here the aquacraft minimono is pretty good thought about buying that for my boss so they don't wreck the spartan

[jetskier]

looks good would like to see it in action.

[Heaving Earth]

Turn fins are useless on a cat. Your trim tabs are mounted in the absolute wrong place and will do absolutely nothing.

[Heaving Earth]

Also your turn fins are mounted in a pointless place. instead of just bolting stuff to useless points of your boat, maybe you should research.

Happy boating