KV recommendation for circle boat racing

[NativePaul]

if you listen to other racers you will at best be as fast as them.

He says, while ironically listing all his wins in his sig line.

[Fluid]

Let’s play nice boys. There is a forum Ignore function for a reason, perhaps it’s time to use it.




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[tbonemcniel]

Looking for KV recommendations for T offshore class racing. Was looking at running little higher KV and running 8s. New to all this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Gosh, to get this back on track a little....

1. There are a couple good clubs in Texas. The biggest electric club would be HOTMBC (Heart of Texas Model Boat Club) in Katy/Houston area. We only run FE boats.
2. There's also Dallas Thunderboats up in, you guessed it, Dallas.


As far as running 8S in T class, it can be done, but you're starting at both an advantage and disadvantage. One of our HOTMBC members runs his MHZ Caiman on 8S against the other similarly sized 10S boats with good success. But he's pulling a ton of amps to do so. If a 10S boat is pulling 300A, then the same boat on 8S has to pull 375A just to go the same speed. That's the disadvantage. The advantage is, with the Castle XLX2 Hydra ESC, you have the controller than can do it without breaking a sweat. This member regularly pulls 400A+ during a T Offshore race using the Castle XLX2 Hydra and a Castle 2028 1100kv motor. He had some issues with motor wires desoldering at the tabs on the motor, and eventually stepped up to a higher melting point solder to help keep it together. If you used a non-Castle motor, like a Leopard or a TP, that would negate that issue.

[lohring]

A long time ago Brian Buaas drove my 1/8 scale boat to 1/8 scale and T sport hydro two lap records and a NAMBA Nationals win. Below is the article I wrote about it. It's a lot more modest setup than those being discussed above, but the NAMBA two lap records still stand.

Lohring Miller

Electrifying Adventures in Scale.pdf

[T.S.Davis]

Let’s play nice boys. There is a forum Ignore function for a reason, perhaps it’s time to use it.

Haven't seen one so bent on pissing up legs since our good friend out of San Fransisco. I had typed a response to another thread that I deleted before posting. Felt I had been baited again. Same with this thread. Experienced guys respond. Less experienced guys tell them not to listen to the experienced.

Ignore may be the best advice. Although......bad advice will still be supplied. Posters just wont know they're getting it. I don't know. Thanks for the reminder that the option was there Jay. Haven't used in at least 10 years.