Another successful Revolt maiden! W/video

[Mike Caruso]

Hey guys, big update on my Revolt 30. After approximately 8 runs, I had a malfunction yesterday. I wanted to post my experience to help anyone in case they encounter this issue.

I was running yesterday on some heavy chop (was good fun!). I didn't flip or anything, just hit a few 5" waves and it stopped running. It then "sailed" back into shore. I found that when I gave it throttle, the prop would vibrate back and forth. To me it appeared that it binding. So I took everything apart, flex shaft, collet, motor off mount, prop, drive dog. Reassembled and it would still do it!

I continued to fiddle with it for another hour and by chance was wiggling a motor wire while giving it some throttle and it magically spooled up. Turns out one of the three wires coming from the motor (red wire) was internally broken from the base of the bullet connector!

I've read of people recommending changing out the connectors, now I'm living it. So I just ordered $50 worth of shrink wrap, wiring, bullet connectors for motor, EC5's to replace the deans on the grimracer batts, soldering jig, etc.

See as how I went cold turkey into this hobby, the "getting started" price I told my wife was $320 for the boat, and it has now ballooned to $750 for accessories, batteries, charger.....etc....

Correct but next time you can tell her hey I have batteries already LOL

[fwlbp]

LOL Mike, I also now have charger, checker, soldering station, lipo bags, etc. It makes getting a micro boat a "cheap" proposition for my upcoming birthday, hmmmmm

Anyhow, I got my Revolt back in the water over the weekend. Received new EC5's for ESC, batteries, & Charger. I also got castle creation 4 mm bullets for the motor. I thought about using 5 mm, but the small 14 gauge wires on the motor don't seem to necessitate larger ones. The cotacts on the male castles have MUCH more surface area than the stock 4mms that came on the motor. I also got a weller WLC100 40 watt station to put it all together.

I didn't get a pic of the poor solder joint because I just wanted to get the job done and get on the water! The red wire was not soldered at all and I am suspicious if ever had a connection. I think the heat shrink was giving it a mechanical connection! The solder in the bullet looked like the surface of the moon, pitted and flat grey. My new joints were nice and shiny with fillets up to the shrink wrap, so I was happy.

Took it out and did three runs. Ran beautifully. Now I'm not sure if it is me or not, but it appears that it is running a tick faster, maybe 2-3 mph. I seriously wonder if the cold joints were giving some resistance and impeding the motor from reaching full chat. I didn't make any adjustments other than connectors and it ran much looser than before. It had some slight chine walk even, which i had never encountered. Overall, very satisfied with what I've accomplished with my boat!!

*Edit*
Just wanted to give a shout out to Kintecracing. Every order I've placed to them has been flawless and quick. I received the above components within days and was back in the water in under a week, minimizing my down time.

[fwlbp]

Hey guys, just wanted to enter another update on my progress so far. I ordered and received a S&B Octura M545 prop from here at OSE. Pulled off the carbon Graupner K48 and ran with the m545 yesterday for the first time. My jaw dropped when I saw the top end of this prop, amazing! My dad, who has been an observer of my FE boat journery this summer, was laughing like a mad man. It was running extremely dry with chine walk & air time over wake. To my untrained eye, it looked like it was in the upper 40's.

It was interesting to see the difference in performance. It definitely didn't accelerate as hard as the Graupner, but the top end is well worth the trade off. Even mor interesting is how cool my entire setup ran. Motor, ESC, batteries, connections all were luke warm to the touch even though it was running the fastest I've ever seen.

My last point of discussion after seeing it run at these speeds is why do people feel the need to bump it to 5S or 6S. The 48 to 50 mph range seemed like about the most I'd want to run this boat as it was slightly unstable. I feel like I'd have alter the setup and run the hull wetter just to handle the 5S/6S increase. So not sure what the point would be as everything would run hotter and more unstable.

[G-UNIT]

An M445 works great on this boat also running 4s and stock esc.

[fwlbp]

Thanks for the suggestion, how does the m445 compare to the m545? The m545 runs so great I don't know what the advantage of the m445 would be.

[Brushless55]

Thanks for the suggestion, how does the m445 compare to the m545? The m545 runs so great I don't know what the advantage of the m445 would be.

The m445 has less pitch

[G-UNIT]

True it has less pitch and would load up faster I believe, also your temps might even go down a bit.

[fwlbp]

Hmm, well maybe I'll pick one up in the off season to try out in the spring. I'm just having too much fun with this M545 to take it off the boat!

[Brushless55]

Hmm, well maybe I'll pick one up in the off season to try out in the spring. I'm just having too much fun with this M545 to take it off the boat!

If you like that prop I would not prop down with a M445