The official 36" zelos twin modding thread

[fweasel]

The cable on my Voracity is a 3/16" from OSE and it has a .050" grub on the dog.

[Mxkid261]

Could be a 1/16.

[stratus]

I will assume it is the .050 cause the 1.5mm barely don't fit,ordered that and will see hopefully will fit.My props also arrived from OSE so this Sunday will have a lot of testing :) pic of props and one with all equipment inside which i like the look with the CF now!
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[Erroneous]

Every set of cables Ive got for the zelos Ive changed out the dogs for the stock ones. The dogs and grub on the upgraded cables just seem chinsy to me. I plan on trying the OSE tapered dogs this time around tho.

[Erroneous]

Blew a motor this morning. Debating a new motor/esc setup or a new boat at this point. Had it in series (73mphPeakGps). Abc1915s. Upgraded shafts. Is it time to move into something bigger with heavier electronics or use the zelos and crank it up in electronics and dial in the timing, etc...

Ive read this whole forum over the course of a few months. Any updated information/recommendations would be highly appreciated.

Dan the Fireman/Chicago

Thats a lot of prop to run on stock electronics. Im impressed it lasted so long.

[Team Lucas]

i never remove drive dogs, I just buy new ones when I get new cables

[ChevyPrerunner]

.050 is the correct size hex key if I remember correctly on the OSE Dogs.
That Carbon looks sexy inside.

[banixj]

Blew a motor this morning. Debating a new motor/esc setup or a new boat at this point. Had it in series (73mphPeakGps). Abc1915s. Upgraded shafts. Is it time to move into something bigger with heavier electronics or use the zelos and crank it up in electronics and dial in the timing, etc...

Ive read this whole forum over the course of a few months. Any updated information/recommendations would be highly appreciated.

Dan the Fireman/Chicago

for my opinion a 1915 prop is really too much for stock electronics... specially if air/water is not cold...
i think the largest prop stock zelos can run is a x447, abc 1715, abc 1814: all have a similar run of around 65mm (pitch x diameter)...
obviously props have to be prepped otherwise you drain more amps for nothing...

[kfxguy]

So fellas I finally got off my butt and went ran the zelos today with the new motors. I was pretty pleased with the speed I got. Same props, 1814-17-45 abc but I ran it on 4s. Yes, on 4s per motor. I wanted to get a feel for how fast it would be before I tried 6s. Well I expecting about 50-55mph. This motor is only 2000kv so I figured it would be a touch faster than the factory motors since they are higher kv but these tp motors have more power. Well I didn't expect this:

[kfxguy]

Btw, stock escs are still being used. I ran several laps and the escs only saw a max of 108f and the motors saw 101f. Timing is still at 7 degrees.

[Brushless55]

Great job!

[kfxguy]

Thx buddy! I'm stoked it went that fast on 4s with less heat in the escs. On 6s it would be nasty. I'm not chancing it. Maybe 5s but I don't have any 5s packs right now.

[kfxguy]

So here's a short video. I didn't run it long because as you know when you make changes you should always check temps. Everything was good so I threw it back in and ran it for a bit longer. It was bouncing a tad going into the wind so I added some weight when I got back home.

[Erroneous]

Nice!!

[banixj]

wow! 65mph @ 4S !!! so impressive.... one more confirmation hull is so efficient!