Is this how its supposed to look when its running VIDEO

[dana]

heres a video of some of my friend an i running our boats. there is a motley crue in here running 3 different prop and cell counts. pay attention to catch them. he has his strut set all the way up, but i suppose all boats are not the same. this is what worked for him. he is running stock motor and t180, although a 120 would be fine. anyways here ya go you have to watch the whole 5 minutes because the motley appears in the middle and at the end ch33rs! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7t1NIXm0o

[pavmentsurfer]

Well, I'm in myrtle beach right now on holidays and the MC came with me. Theres a small pond in the centre of the park where were staying and I've been running the boat every day at least twice. Its amazing the difference calm VS mild chop makes in how this boat runs. I ran it on glass and it ran nearly flat in the water. The sponsors were wet all the way down. Nothing I did could bring the nose up. Ive mostly run it in mild chop (wind ripples to a max of 2 inch small waves) and it just floats on top of the water with only about 1 inch of the sponsons wet. Its amazing. Its SO much faster this way and I'm not changing a thing. Packs are in exactly the same location, I havent touched the strut. I found the boat goes faster into the wind but, of course, the risk of blow over is greater (did a great double gainer this morning... landed on its hull and kept going). Overall this boat is attracting ALOT of attention here at the park. I probably had 15 people out watching me this morning, asking questions. Just gotta watch for fishing lines. I snagged one at the end of my run. Luckily it just caught the rudder and not the prop but apparently people leave them out in the pond even while they aren't fishing.

Anyway, I'm going to try and get my wife to take a quick video later on today when the babies sleeping.

[D for Dummy]

I agree, I love running in 1-2in chop. Today we ran in 6in+ waves, lots of subs, lots of blowovers.

More videos on my YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/dfordummy/videos

[Old Sloppy]

where in Myrtle Beach is that pond?
I will be there soon and wonder if the pond is suitable for larger/faster hulls?
I have a 18" mono or a 60" Cat, I guess the Cat would be too much.....

Harry
from Atlanta

[pavmentsurfer]

Its at a trailer park on the beach called Pirateland. The people there seem to LOVE electric boats but anything with a gas motor would be too much for them. Im uploading a video to youtube right now and will post here once its done. You can get a feel for the size of the pond. Perfect for a 30 inch cat for sure. Id have 10-15 people "spectating" every run. I ran twice a day minimum, most days I got through 4 sets of packs. Only one flip that ended with the boat upside down. Sat on the shore for about 10 minutes while the boat floated to me, flipped it back over and kept going. This boat is sweet.

heres some pics. They are screen caps from the video I'm uploading so the quality is pretty bad. But they have a nice action feel to them. As you can see, the boat is running VERY dry now. I have an SV27 rudder to go on so I can run both water pickups. I also have the Turnigy 120amp ESC to go in it. Unfortunately, the boat had to stay in myrtle beach at my parents trailer till they bring it home in about 3 weeks. So, till then, ill just be remembering the good times.

[pavmentsurfer]

Heres the video I took on holidays.

[bdp1174]

Looks like it's running pretty good I am tring to get my MC dialed and and wonder if you can help me.I put my boat on a table after raising the pickup and put the strut flat and level touching the table like grim suggested(had to bend the stuffing tube slightly to try and get the srut level, had about 1-2 degree angle down out of box) and running 2 2s lipos centered on the velcro.It seems like it is running a little faster but the nose is not coming up very much and takes a little longer to get on plane than the stock strut level out of box.Sometimes it seems it want to push the nose down towards the water on inital throttle then it gets on plane and runs ok but I am not sure what else to try.

How is your strut adjusted? Also where are you running your lipos in the boat?

Thanks,
Brandon

[pavmentsurfer]

I have my strut about 1/8 LOWER than the bottom of the sponsons. I could probably try and go up a bit. But I found when I went further up it stopped lifting the nose. I also have it angled UP just a bit (so the nose of the strut is higher than the tail). This worked for me but the biggest thing I changed that helped from my initial setup was moving the batteries all the way back. This is going to be determined by what size and weight batteries you have, mine are relatively light 2S hard case packs and I have them all the way back. This made a HUGE difference for me. I was having the same problem you were with the nose "sticking" to the water... I couldn't get it to lift and "fly" the way I wanted to. Now, as you can see, it flys great. My next adjustment will be to level the strut again the way Grim suggested and try that with my packs all the way back. Not sure what effect that will have but its worth a try.

[bdp1174]

Did you run into any issue with the boat getting on plane at all like I am having?
Btw I am also using a grim 42x55 prop.
When u say all the way back is that with the front of the batteries barely on the velcro?

[pavmentsurfer]

All the way back means the packs are touching the raised area for the servo and ESC... pushing them as far as they will go to the rear of the boat. Mine still has quite a bit of velcro overlapping but its the back of the packs are not on the velcro. Id get a pic if the boat wasn't still on holidays with my parents.

When I was first trying to get the boat to lift its nose I was raising the strut by 1/16 increments and eventually I got to a point where the boat would barely take off. Now, when you first hit the throttle it cavitates a bit (spins but doesnt go very fast) then once the boat starts moving it just jumps and takes off. This is normal as I understand it.

[bdp1174]

Ok that is what mine is doing.I just got in 2 new gens ace 5300 2s 30c lupos today and will be trying these out as soon as I solder on some ec5s to them.
I will post my results and try to get a video of how it runs so you can see it and let me know if it looks like its running good or not.
Thanks again for your help.

Brandon

[Brushless55]

Ok that is what mine is doing.I just got in 2 new gens ace 5300 2s 30c lupos today and will be trying these out as soon as I solder on some ec5s to them.
I will post my results and try to get a video of how it runs so you can see it and let me know if it looks like its running good or not.
Thanks again for your help.

Brandon

I have those same packs, lets me know how you like them..

[Old Sloppy]

Are 5300 Lipo's a little large/heavy for that size hull?

I understand the need for lots of run time and I understand the larger cells have a higher amp capibility.

Just seems a 3700 lipo would jump on plane faster due to less weight.

Harry

[xlandguy]

Wow, I was just looking at batteries and weights online and wondering how much a few ounces can affect these boats. Quite a bit I imagine. So getting some 8,200mah batteries that weigh .9 lbs would be a foolish thing for me then. I own an AC Motley Crew. I run SPC 5,000's and Sky Lipo 4,400. THese are hardcase but from now on I do believe I will buy nothing but NON hardcase batteries. I like the idea of being able to interchange batteries between my boat and my Traxxas Summit, also a 4s machine. The SPC batts I have are only 25c but very good quality I believe, the Sky's are 40c. I got my SPC's soaking wet due to my hatch compartment filling with water. But after opening the case and drying them there seems to be no affect.

[pavmentsurfer]

Im not sure the extra weight of a hard case VS soft case will make that much of a difference. Not as much as say, buying a 50C SPC VS the 25C SPC pack will. My packs get HOT in this boat and I can only imagine how hot the 25C packs would get. It was recommended to me not to run anything less than true 40C packs... which is why I sold all my old packs (I had a few of the 5000 25C packs as a few 6000 30C packs) and bought new 50C packs... and they still get hot. I run them in my EREB, Summit and the MC. I have 8200's but only run them in my summit as they are only 30C.