Help!!!!!! Prather 46 prop/esc/motor combo??

[cmoo]

update prop is an octura x457 and the batteries were almost completely full. and ran the two batteries in series. not parallel.

[tlandauer]

As said, you need more than 10,000mah capacity ESPECIALLY for Castle Creation's ESC, they really want that capacity, personally told by the tech people from CC. Low quality batteries and inadequate capacity is the worst enemy for ESCs in boat application.
I have a DF 45" Sniper with Neu2230 on 12s2p with the same prop, runs fine. But not sure about your particular case,,,, not an expert on prop sizes.

EDIT: I would strongly suggest you post pictures of the areas that have been asked for by the real experts here, before people losing interest in your problem. There is a timing factor in these forums, if you got momentum, take advantage of it, posting more questions/comments is not going to "speed up'' their answer, concentrate on the area and go from there.
Good Luck!

[cmoo]

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Although now taken apart this was my wiring.
Thanks for the info @tlandauer

[Fluid]

Wow, where to start - wish we'd seen these earlier.

The battery wirng is terrible. Way too long, and those plugs are really only good to about 50 amps. Above that draw and they have huge resistance. Combined with the low pack capacity this can destroy an ESC which is asked to handle a lot of amps. Try to reduce the wire length as much as practical, bet it could be cut in half. The motor wires are much less critical.

The submerged drive is......antiquated. It has been two decades since I have run a non-surface drive. I would suggest converting it, but that is a lot of work so we can see what can be done with the current setup. The boat can certainly run okay, it is just out of most of our recent experiences.

The 10 mph top speed is silly slow. The fact that you ran three minutes but hardly drained the packs leads me to think that you never had full throttle applied, either with a weak throttle finger or a poor binding to the transmitter. That will kill an ESC quickly.

Let me do a bit of research of my old notes.......


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[cmoo]

appreciate the continued interest in my issue, and i didn't realize how much i have to do. i was giving full throttle for the few passes i made before pulling it out and will rebind the transmitter prior to my next run. also willing to do the work for a surface drive.