Hobbyking Flowmaster

[Hi8iS]

If you look at the rating on the side of the ESC you will see that the V3 60A ESC is only rated to 3s. If you want to exceed the manufacturers recommendations then it is at your peril. The 60A V2 versions were rated to 6s.

Check out this thread on the Turnigy 60A which is supposedly just a rebadged Seaking http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1703108

If this is true it should handle 4s without to much problem. Will be fun to find out :)

[lt130th]

I often pull opinions from my car-modding experiences. I say (especially if you already have upgraded ESC's sitting) go for 4s & see what happens. If something breaks, gives you a reason to upgrade. Just always be prepared for the worst (fire, offshore). And share some emperical data/results & setup from your trials.

[785boats]

Check out this thread on the Turnigy 60A which is supposedly just a rebadged Seaking http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1703108

If this is true it should handle 4s without to much problem. Will be fun to find out :)

Look at the date on the thread & the pic in the first post. That was the older V2 model which we know is a 6s ESC.
Even on the Hobbywing/Seaking site, this new V3 is only rated to 3s. It could well be a mistake in labeling, & they may really be a 6s ESC.
If anyone knows for sure, ie has actually contacted the manufacturers, (Hobbywing/Seaking) for confirmation, it would be good to know.

[boilo56]

How would you expect the performance to compare to a stock Blackjack v3 (4s)?

Why selling the blackjack?

[Hi8iS]

Look at the date on the thread & the pic in the first post. That was the older V2 model which we know is a 6s ESC.
Even on the Hobbywing/Seaking site, this new V3 is only rated to 3s. It could well be a mistake in labeling, & they may really be a 6s ESC.
If anyone knows for sure, ie has actually contacted the manufacturers, (Hobbywing/Seaking) for confirmation, it would be good to know.

I can't say if the ESC's that come with the boat are version 2 or 3's. (Not even sure the Turnigy Marine version came in more than 1 version) But it is a Turnigy Marine 60A. And if you look at that thread it states that the Turnigy Marine 60A is only rated for 2-3s but he has successfully ran it on 6s in 33" mono spinning a Prather 225 & the esc came back at a cool 105. The version 3's look different if I am not mistaken. Below is a version 3.



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[lt130th]

I would be plenty surprised if this little thing could handle 6s. All the leads are 14 gage stranded wire. I think you might get away with 4s, using conservative props and making sure all drag factors are reduced as much as possible.

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I guess this is the older SeaKing that looks similar: http://www.ultrahobbies.com.au/store...cat=281&page=1 I would still be amazed to see that one handle 6s, even though it says it can.

[SD Eracer]

I know someone on this forum who purchased the boat, was initially impressed with the paint work, but after tearing it down he found it rather cheap, even for a TFL hull.

He began doing reinforcements to the hull, which is normally carbon fiber layup, but he starts with epoxy in the tips. While he had the boat tips in the bucket it actually started to fill up with water because the tips had tiny pin holes in them.

Not good when the stock hull is already leaking water from tiny holes you can't see. But of course, anytime I buy a new hull, I am expecting to do some work on it, regardless if its ready or almost ready to run or not.