Venom/Atomik New 58 Inch Electric Catamaran

[marksp]

Thanks Chris! I'm in Seattle area, so a bit of a hike from Venom/Atomik HQ, but thanks for the offer! I'm ready to rock, so get those bad boys sorted so I can get one before our limited summer is over

[Chris Nicastro]

Yep working on it!
Whats up with our short summers! Oh well but we do run in the winter so dress warm and go!

[EricSchlaifer]

arc 58 12S upgrade

Hey its been awhile since I last posted on this. I had ordered a new ESC and motor from fightercat and the usb programmer was DOA. I got a working one and eventually got it installed. Here's a pic of where I'm at.
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Excuse the sloppy wiring, I'm waiting on some quality 8 awg wire so I had to fudge it a bit just to test it. Basically I ordered a 520kv outrunner and the 20S 120 Amp ESC from fightercat. The installation has been fairly easy so far, I opened up the coupler to 6mm to fit the shaft of the fightercat outrunner. I had to shorten up the flex shaft about 10mm and add a reciever pack (no BEC on that esc).

I'm in Los Angeles and had to wait for the weather to cool down a bit. I did not want to test the setup in 100 degree plus heat. Yesterday was around 90 so I took it out. Unfortunately one of the motor leads let go after my initial pass to check heat

I'm anxious to get it back in the water though, I want to get some GPS readings.

[EricSchlaifer]

its ok bro..
this motor if you want to know is very close to what comes in that boat for only 45 bucks
but it is rated to 3k watts vs only 2k watts in the venom.. so about 50% more rated power
http://fightercatracing.com/index.ph...chk=1&Itemid=1

Hope its better than the 520kv version I ended up with...

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[rpedro]

So is anyone actually running this??? Would love some ACTUAL feedback...