Venom/Atomik New 58 Inch Electric Catamaran

[BILL OXIDEAN]

I think some of you need to relax, and maybe back off of Bill... These are RTR boats... none of them are perfect, and many of you have NO IDEA just how much give and take goes into actually getting one of these to market. You don't want to know, trust me!

Take these boats for what they are, evaluate what you want, and go on from there. Bashing the messenger isn't going to get us anywhere. We need MORE boaters and MORE people racing together, not polarization.

Well put Darin. Look forward to beers and champagne with you guys at the nationals awards banquet.

[Brushless55]

Venon make crappy products, they are usually out of stock of critical replacement parts, and they are built to a price, in which will usually be Too cheap

thanks for your opinion..
I hope this one is a little different in the build and quality side of things (specially the gell coat) and I hope the motor lives up to the task of this big hull..
I would like to drive one and see just how well or not it performs outside a video..

ps. my Gas KOS had tons of cracks all over in the gell coat..

[BILL OXIDEAN]

thanks for your opinion..
I hope this one is a little different in the build and quality side of things (specially the gell coat) and I hope the motor lives up to the task of this big hull..
I would like to drive one and see just how well or not it performs outside a video..

ps. my Gas KOS had tons of cracks all over in the gell coat..

You guys won Brushless 55 you've turned the world away from Venom
By the way, you're only in Colorado. Are you attending the FE nats? You appear to have deep passion for our sport.

I can show you there how our products work

[Rumdog]

Thanks for adding more useful info, Bill.
B-55 Is posting his experience with the same hull as the boat this thread is about. I've seen a few of these with paint issues after running also. I'd stiffen the hell out of the hull with CF if you plan going any faster than stock.

Venom has been doing a fine job of turning people away from their boats all by theirselves. I mean.... Atomik

[Brushless55]

You guys won Brushless 55 you've turned the world away from Venom
By the way, you're only in Colorado. Are you attending the FE nats? You appear to have deep passion for our sport.

I can show you there how our products work

I may go, but I'de rather be a high altitude tester for this 58"
( I know people with cash, and lots of it )

Thanks for adding more useful info, Bill.
B-55 Is posting his experience with the same hull as the boat this thread is about. I've seen a few of these with paint issues after running also. I'd stiffen the hell out of the hull with CF if you plan going any faster than stock.

Venom has been doing a fine job of turning people away from their boats all by theirselves. I mean.... Atomik

yes, the Gas KOS had massive gell coat cracks in it.. I sold it to a guy who has a boat repair shop up in Wyoming, who said he was going to redo the gell coat and paint it the way he wanted it to look.. (made some money in the deal)
sweet looking hull from 10ft+ away, but 5ft and closer.. ouch
I hope this one has better gell coat on it, and matched paint from hull to hatch

love to have a free one to put a 540kv in it and try 16s to see what could happen!
I could sell a ton, if it turned out good..
I brought a UL-1 to Lake Tracy a few years ago to a test and tune at NAMBA20, and since then, they have hosted the Nats and now have several FE classes..

[forescott]

Maybe the brushless version of this cat will not stress crack so much due to the absence of a tooth rattling gas motor.

[forescott]

New vidio from atomik rc.....

[BILL OXIDEAN]

New vidio from atomik rc.....

Dosen't look freakin' bad! LoL!
I should have one at the nats..

[Darin Jordan]

Doesn't look too bad to me. Would be interesting to see one in person.

[Darin Jordan]

Dosen't look freakin' bad! LoL!
I should have one at the nats..

Bill... remember too... that's a legal "Hydro" as well as Offshore...

[BILL OXIDEAN]

Bill... remember too... that's a legal "Hydro" as well as Offshore...

Now here's a guy not "taunting" but "tempting" me
You know me, if I have the boat, I'll go 'head and run it. Hey, thanx for the class recommendation lol!
From the Vid it looks like with some Oxidean magic it'd dang near hang in there as a hydro..

[ozzie-crawl]

That looked half reasonable. least they did not do one of those videos were the person is trying to do figure 8s and trying to do sharp left hand turns in a small pond and you never see the hull up on plane

[Paul Susbauer]

Hey Guys,
Paul from Venom/Atomik here. Since we're three pages into the pissing contest, I won't acknowledge any of it, but will give you the facts.

This boat has been in the works for well over three years testing a bunch of different configurations.

This is meant to be a first big RC electric boat for the average weekend warrior hobbyist. The goal is to make it run on a cheapo 25C 6S 5000mah Lipo, at a speed comparable to our stock Gas boat. We know that higher voltage is always a good thing, but the average consumer has a programmable charger that goes up to 6S only. (Example, the Venom Pro-Charger, the various HK chargers, etc)

The goal was to get the most out of these components while not stressing them. At most its pulling about 100amps continuous, through the 120 amp esc. The motor itself typically comes off the water at 130 F or less after heat soak. Motor not stressed, ESC not stressed, and even the cheap 25C packs aren't stressed.



We have put a high quality CNC Aluminum prop on there, and have listened to the high end boating community and configured the whole battery tray and motor mount system to be able to upgrade to much greater power, should you choose to do so.

There was a comment someone said that there is very little porpoising or chine walking in the smooth water. We run this in heavier surf conditions too. Example, the other day we were out running with the wind blowing about 25mph, which was putting white caps on the local lake. Still handled it like a charm.

This is an RTR product. Keep that in perspective.

Paul Susbauer
Product Manager
Atomik-RC

[Brushless55]

Hey Guys,
Paul from Venom/Atomik here. Since we're three pages into the pissing contest, I won't acknowledge any of it, but will give you the facts.

This boat has been in the works for well over three years testing a bunch of different configurations.

This is meant to be a first big RC electric boat for the average weekend warrior hobbyist. The goal is to make it run on a cheapo 25C 6S 5000mah Lipo, at a speed comparable to our stock Gas boat. We know that higher voltage is always a good thing, but the average consumer has a programmable charger that goes up to 6S only. (Example, the Venom Pro-Charger, the various HK chargers, etc)

The goal was to get the most out of these components while not stressing them. At most its pulling about 100amps continuous, through the 120 amp esc. The motor itself typically comes off the water at 130 F or less after heat soak. Motor not stressed, ESC not stressed, and even the cheap 25C packs aren't stressed.


We have put a high quality CNC Aluminum prop on there, and have listened to the high end boating community and configured the whole battery tray and motor mount system to be able to upgrade to much greater power, should you choose to do so.

There was a comment someone said that there is very little porpoising or chine walking in the smooth water. We run this in heavier surf conditions too. Example, the other day we were out running with the wind blowing about 25mph, which was putting white caps on the local lake. Still handled it like a charm.

This is an RTR product. Keep that in perspective.

Paul Susbauer
Product Manager
Atomik-RC

Paul, great to know!
I have 6 6s packs for my TRex-600 that could be used for this rtr
I assume you are talking of running two 6s 5000mah packs in parallel for 10,000mah?
thanks

[Paul Susbauer]

BL55,
Nope, just a single 25C 6S 5000 is what we run, and we're also running 50C 6S packs. There are dual battery trays built into each sponson that you could easily parallel a couple packs up for long run time too. Those trays were put in there for that exact reason, or for upgrading to higher power setups.

To note, in heavy wind conditions, with how light it is with just a single 6S pack, she will pick up easily, so be careful heading into the wind. Dual 6S packs, moved forward slightly greatly helped that.

I don't know if anyone mentioned it, but the boat comes standard with EC5 connectors which is what we have been using in all our testing over the last couple years with great success.

Paul Susbauer
Atomik-RC