EKOS clone and upgrade questions.

[JPriami]

no more boat funds atm. i was sick for 2 weeks and missed work that ate up my boat funds

[forescott]

Prime example Venom 60 amp, Turnigy Marine 60amp, Hobbywing Seaking 60amp. These are all the EXACT same esc's with different labels. Notice the venom inflation

Yeah, but those venom decals are expensive!!

[JPriami]

i need a decal machine so i can print up some that say venom and sell them for more

[Diesel6401]

These are the ESC's in it

ESC's are 70 amp

Specs:
Type - Water Cooled
Voltage - 7.4 - 22.2v (2 - 6 cells lipo)
BEC - 5.5v @ 4 amp
Battery Connector - T-Style

It may be a re-labled/badged Suppo with water cooling

[Brushless55]

i need a decal machine so i can print up some that say venom and sell them for more

and call it Venom2

[LarrysDrifter]

Looks like that one too.You have a "mut" esc.

[FighterCat57]

Hota?

Watch the name when you plug in the charger. It's the MFR of the electronics, there are several different cases, models that use those guts.

[FighterCat57]

and call it Venom2

That's the American way... sell the name! Buy the hype!

[LarrysDrifter]

Amen brother.Its BS.

[FighterCat57]

These are the ESC's in it

ESC's are 70 amp

Specs:
Type - Water Cooled
Voltage - 7.4 - 22.2v (2 - 6 cells lipo)
BEC - 5.5v @ 4 amp
Battery Connector - T-Style

Try this? This is a very common 70a ESC which different companies water proof and add water cooling to.

[JPriami]

Something is messed up because when i listen to the beeps and the decode sheet it came with. when you go into the option 1 cell type and number of cells. at the bottom of the section/coloum it says there should be one short beep and 7 long beeps fpr 2S li-po 7.4v- 8v cutoff voltage. well it never gets to the 7 long beeps. it stops at the 6 long beeps and start back over to the one short beep and one long beep and goes back through that all the way to one short beep and 6 long beeps. wtf this is lame
btw thanks for the help fighter cat. ill take a look at it

[JPriami]

It may be a re-labled/badged Suppo with water cooling

OMFG!!!

Dude I think you maybe right about this being a Suppo.
I have looked at the programming sheet to theirs and its identical to the one i have and guess what. it shows that the 70 amp esc will only support 4S and up to 8S. reason i feel this maybe a for sure thing is because i dont have a musical tone then 7 long beeps in my menu for cell type it only goes to musical tone and 6 long beeps the starts back over to the musical tone and one beep and so on.
only other thing diffrent tho is mine has BEC and the ones i see that are so simlair to mine say no bec.


anywho if this is the case and my esc wont do 3S and thats why im having problems running any longer than 3 mins and my batteries are sitting on 12v when i bring the boat back in. Till I can save up the $$ to buy new esc's do you think I can get away with putting the esc's in the nicad/nimh mode and letting it think im running those? wouldnt it think i have like 10 maybe 11 1.2v cells in there and it will limit those by not letting the voltage per cell (weither it counts 12.6v as 10 or 11 cells idk) get below 0.7v that would make my LVC at around or above 7v. But a real LVC set that low would be bad for lipos and something I wouldnt let get that low. I would just run for about 10mins then come in. and this would be the only way i can enjoy the darn thing till i buy new esc's.

[FighterCat57]

Before using brushless ESC's or LVC's, I would use a Low Voltage Buzzer for voltage protection. They would beep at 3.6v and plug in to the voltage tap leads.

[JPriami]

Before using brushless ESC's or LVC's, I would use a Low Voltage Buzzer for voltage protection. They would beep at 3.6v and plug in to the voltage tap leads.

sounds like a good idea thanks
are they cheap and in the usa so i dont have to wait weeks to get? I ordered my first thing from hobbyking over 2 weeks ago now. still waiting for it. i really like things in the states bought and sold here type deal.

I see the link you poasted thanks.
What do you think about this one?tesla voltage alarm

[Brushless55]

OMFG!!!

Dude I think you maybe right about this being a Suppo.
I have looked at the programming sheet to theirs and its identical to the one i have and guess what. it shows that the 70 amp esc will only support 4S and up to 8S. reason i feel this maybe a for sure thing is because i dont have a musical tone then 7 long beeps in my menu for cell type it only goes to musical tone and 6 long beeps the starts back over to the musical tone and one beep and so on.
only other thing diffrent tho is mine has BEC and the ones i see that are so simlair to mine say no bec.


anywho if this is the case and my esc wont do 3S and thats why im having problems running any longer than 3 mins and my batteries are sitting on 12v when i bring the boat back in. Till I can save up the $$ to buy new esc's do you think I can get away with putting the esc's in the nicad/nimh mode and letting it think im running those? wouldnt it think i have like 10 maybe 11 1.2v cells in there and it will limit those by not letting the voltage per cell (weither it counts 12.6v as 10 or 11 cells idk) get below 0.7v that would make my LVC at around or above 7v. But a real LVC set that low would be bad for lipos and something I wouldnt let get that low. I would just run for about 10mins then come in. and this would be the only way i can enjoy the darn thing till i buy new esc's.

Keep in mind, when the boat is under a load while you are running it, the batteries are ging to be under the 12v mark and be well into 11v or possible even high 10s
so if the lvc is set to 3.3v per cell on 4s, you would not even get 3min of runtime.. It would even run at all