New to theUL-1 and boating.

[SloHD]

Sometimes he's fast, sometimes he's slow. You'll get your stuff, email him if its taking too long. He has a normal day job on top of the website. Do some searching around once and a while, there are multiple threads about kintec on this site.

[stelerzman]

Thank you for the info, I have emailed him on several occasions and he's yet to respond. Very poor communication if you ask me, especially sense I'm a first time customer. What a let down.

[tlandauer]

I can only speak from my experiences: I usually get items from Kintec real fast but I no longer get return e mails from him for the obvious reason that he is too busy. I have stopped e mailing him altogether, since I do all the research before hand and only buy from him if OSE doesn't have the item. There are different opinions on his service but if I know what to expect then I feel confident buying from Kintec.
I hope you get your issue sorted out, best of luck!
Just my $.02

[stelerzman]

Thank you. I guess I'll get him another week, if I don't get the BO items I'll contact Paypal.

[stelerzman]

I'll bedamned, I just received one of the two items that Kintec back ordered on me. Now I'm curious how long will it take to get the last item, another month??????
What is this guys problem????

[stelerzman]

A little update from today, I GPS'ed the boat with the chewed up prop at 40 mph. Then I installed a new stock prop and it went 43 mph. I then installed a GR 40×57 sharpened and balanced prop. Here's the freaky thing, I was heading to the water and noticed the throttle was extremely weak, to the point where I thought I installed dead batteries. I took the boat back to my truck and unplugged the batteries, checked the voltage and both had 8.4 volts. Now I'm scratching my head.
I plugged the batteries back in and tested the throttle again and poof, a large cloud of smoke was billowing from the esc. We stepped back for a second because the smoke was all in our faces. Then we pulled the boat off my tail gate and set it onthe ground about 8 feet away. Then I used a pair of plyers to disconect the batteries. The esc is still smoking and cracking. Once I got the batteries out I started working on removing the esc. After it was removed I threw it about 5 feet away.
Now I could breath, then I thought wtf???. After a couple of minutes I got my temp gauge and got a 210 degress reading. After that I noticed the positive wire came off the esc and it looks like it shorted out on the larger capacitor.

Here are some pic's of the after math.
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Any chance I can send it in for a replacement????

[stelerzman]

I want to upgrade what would the seaking 90 amp esc do for me????

[Arizonaheat]

Here's what I did to the prop.[ATTACH=CONFIG]103402[/ATTACH]

I wouldn't bother even charging the batteries again unless your prop looks like this:


Grim 2.jpg

[stelerzman]

Looks good, just so I know, what side gets sanded?
I've heard backside, away from the transome, which is it? Thanks.

[wayne middlemiss]

the drive dog side is the area you sharpen & do thinning work on the blades from.

[stelerzman]

Thanks for the info, i was misinformed. What is the results if I do the wrong side??????

[stelerzman]

I wouldn't bother even charging the batteries again unless your prop looks like this:


[ATTACH=CONFIG]104855[/ATTACH]

Which prop is that?

[stelerzman]

Wohoo, I finally got my esc. I'll get it in soon.

[sboti74]

Nice thread and I've learned quite a bit. Thank you Stelerzman and all those that have been helping him out. :)

I've just got a used UL-1 and ran it for the first time today. Not nearly as fast as yours but I think I need some tuning. Looking foward to watching the thread and learning as much as I can.

Thanks.

[stelerzman]

Nice thread and I've learned quite a bit. Thank you Stelerzman and all those that have been helping him out. :)

I've just got a used UL-1 and ran it for the first time today. Not nearly as fast as yours but I think I need some tuning. Looking foward to watching the thread and learning as much as I can.

Thanks.

What is your current set-up? Where is your strut, mine is almost all the way up, it measures 7/8" from the bottom of the hull. My rudder is about 82* back and I run my batteries as far back as possible, for now. Once I get the new esc in I'll be playing around with the set-up and see what needs adjusted.
Hope this helps.