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My upgraded Castle System showed up today, aside from a piss poor solder job by traxxas on the esc and the esc water intake pipe having to be tweaked the test run was great!
My Spartan it stock except the parallel connector and the dual pickup rudder with second water discharge fitting (one on each side).
With 2 Turnigy 5.0 5s packs in parallel my run times are very long, did not run them down yet but after 15min of mixed speeds the lipo alarms were showing 3.75v in each cell. Im new to lipo but I've found that running these battery's to 3.4v cutoff under load takes about 4400mah to full charge.
Everything stays very cool, the motor and esc were Luke warm after 15 min of mixed speeds with several high speed passes. The packs were cool as can be.
As for the speed, it was plenty fast! Much faster than I thought it would be, I'll stick my cell phone in there with gps running tomorrow for a measured top speed, I did have a little side to side rocking at full power, but sliding the packs forward an inch stoped it for the most part, most of the top speed runs were true and straight, but if you hit a wave just right it starts rocking side to side a bit (the packs are about in the middle right now). I don't see any need for 6s in this boat for the average Joe, it is very fun on 5s and runs cool to the touch! No more Nuclear Meltdowns!
My Spartan it stock except the parallel connector and the dual pickup rudder with second water discharge fitting (one on each side).
With 2 Turnigy 5.0 5s packs in parallel my run times are very long, did not run them down yet but after 15min of mixed speeds the lipo alarms were showing 3.75v in each cell. Im new to lipo but I've found that running these battery's to 3.4v cutoff under load takes about 4400mah to full charge.
Everything stays very cool, the motor and esc were Luke warm after 15 min of mixed speeds with several high speed passes. The packs were cool as can be.
As for the speed, it was plenty fast! Much faster than I thought it would be, I'll stick my cell phone in there with gps running tomorrow for a measured top speed, I did have a little side to side rocking at full power, but sliding the packs forward an inch stoped it for the most part, most of the top speed runs were true and straight, but if you hit a wave just right it starts rocking side to side a bit (the packs are about in the middle right now). I don't see any need for 6s in this boat for the average Joe, it is very fun on 5s and runs cool to the touch! No more Nuclear Meltdowns!
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