Rio EP Brushless *Soon*

[SweetZ28]

I agree with you both lower Kv ratings and a little more voltage keeps things cooler. Not as many amps.

V-Spec thanks for the info on the Carbon, I'll be waiting to hear from you Friday.

Hi but if you use a much smaller prop on a higher KV motor won't it draw less amps and kind of work the same way as lower KV with more voltage ?

[Steven Vaccaro]

I ran it yesterday on a 3s pack and it was crazy fast. But heated up the esc a tad. Motor was still nice and cool.

[v-spec]

You should post some of your boats on the site Steve! I've not been able to make up my mind on what to do motor esc wise with the Rio so in the meantime I'm working on my UL-1 and H&M Eco.

I'll get the Rio up and running as soon as I got everything here and get some updates. I'm pretty anxious to get it going again!

[chummer]

Any updates on this.

[Brushless55]

any up dates v-spec??
I got mine in the mail today, and will be heading to the lake this week with it!

[hyrulejedi86]

Hey V-spec How'd you get the plastic battery holder and Dry box off without damaging the hull?

[chummer]

Hey V-spec How'd you get the plastic battery holder and Dry box off without damaging the hull?

If you look at the pics closely it looks like he cut it out and just trimmed it as close as he could and left the remainder glued to the bottom of the hull.

[Brushless55]

anyone with a brushless Rio EP yet?

[soulreaper]

Next week. I was holding off from saying anything. In fact I already have a brushless in the boat. Im working on fitting the brushless esc in the water tight compartment.( It is a pain and progress is slow). However it will still be done. Im waiting for Mike's PISTIX to arrive. The brushless esc im going to use is an align 75 esc, but it is an airplane esc, so the Pistix will allow me to use it with a pistol grip radio. I had these brushless items laying around so I thought I might be able to put them to good use. I also found out that I will be needing a smaller prop, so I have to order one. I dont know if the smaller prop will be here by Wednesday but I will still try and do a test run with the prop I already have, Ill just have to take it easy. The first run is only a test anyway. My next day off from work will be Wednesday. I dont have a video camera, just a camera that records video, so the video quality wont be that great and I should have video posted Wednesday night. If I have problems posting a video I will beg for some help on this forum. I'll tell all Wednesday.... Here a couple of appetizers. Oh yeah the date on the camera was wrong.

Reaper.

[Brushless55]

Hey v-spec, hows your Rio comming along?

[SweetZ28]

Hi What's the KV rating on your motor?

Next week. I was holding off from saying anything. In fact I already have a brushless in the boat. Im working on fitting the brushless esc in the water tight compartment.( It is a pain and progress is slow). However it will still be done. Im waiting for Mike's PISTIX to arrive. The brushless esc im going to use is an align 75 esc, but it is an airplane esc, so the Pistix will allow me to use it with a pistol grip radio. I had these brushless items laying around so I thought I might be able to put them to good use. I also found out that I will be needing a smaller prop, so I have to order one. I dont know if the smaller prop will be here by Wednesday but I will still try and do a test run with the prop I already have, Ill just have to take it easy. The first run is only a test anyway. My next day off from work will be Wednesday. I dont have a video camera, just a camera that records video, so the video quality wont be that great and I should have video posted Wednesday night. If I have problems posting a video I will beg for some help on this forum. I'll tell all Wednesday.... Here a couple of appetizers. Oh yeah the date on the camera was wrong.

Reaper.

[shannon87]

hi vspec, my names shannon and i noticed all the great work you have done on the rio. Now im going brushless too and a few people gave me some awesome advice,

as they said im goin to suffer with torque roll/ prop walk and the suggested to change the prop and add an adjustable strut i was thinking of doing wat you have done is using the sv27 hardware.

I was wondering how easy was it to mount , how did you go about it, also how did you go about installing the other parts of the drive such as the stuffing tube ,

did you use the stock servo and if so or if not how did you mount it,

as i am going to attempt this conversion my self and any info would be greatly appreciated. Also what did you use to remove and clean up the battery tray etc