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I'll do all that tomorrow for all to see. I want to get it on the pond for a straight away ruin to check the top speed. If that other guy got his to 48mph I saw it run mine looks alot faster. My boys are going to flip when they see this thing. Lol
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I'll drop you a note and maybe we can get together to do some boating sometime. I just finished a 42" DaVatte Aspect Shallow V boat in an FE version. Here is a video of my latest boat if you want to take a look at it:
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Wow that is bad ass. Ya for sure that would be great. We will get together sometimes I don't have nothing that fast yet though lol.Comment
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If you stay with the hobby you will soon. Here is a link to the build:
http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/...c.-help-neededComment
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post link to said video? I dont want to sound like a debbie downer, but I think you have poor judgment of these boats.... If your set up is the stock outrunner motor from a minimono, I can tell you right now its nowhere near 50. I have one I know how fast it goes. the mini mono does maybe 25-30(MAYBE) on a 3s. that boat is smaller/lighter and will go faster than the 17" cat. If you want to get near 30+ with the mini Geico, youre going to need a 2445 motor with a 50-70 amp esc, the right prop, and you will have to change it to a flex shaft with strut.
these smaller boats zip around and turn crazy good, so it may seem like its hauling a$$, when its really not. the vid you posted(cant really see) but youd be able to tell by sound if it were going over 30... and its not.Comment
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yeah I know I'm not sure how fast it really went but you're correct I know the many miles do you run about 30 miles an hour. I plan to put it on a straight away this weekend and use my GPS to see how fast it goes. I have a leopard motor that I just got that I will be sticking it today it is LEOPARD 2030 12T KV7780.think of this motor and I have an 80 amp esc I plan on sticking it today also. I will have a video of the day time running on the pond as soon as I can do it within the next day or two.how could you put a flex shaft in it? And drive strut as it is made as part of the hull.any suggestions would be great.Comment
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also what kind of KV motor should I put in it from what my understandings it should be a lower kV rating am I correct?Comment
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30000/ voltage = approximate kv
Ex 30000/14.8 = 2027kv
30000/11.1 = 2702kv
Just examples aim for a kv in that range + - a few hundredComment
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okay this is per your post of what motor I should get this is what I found what do you think of it is it a good motor and with this work?http://www.nitrorcx.com/96m268-2445-2900kv-17t.htmlComment
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okay so let me know then if that motor I post the link to would work if so I'm going to go ahead and order it or do you think I should just stay with the leopard motorComment
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Youd have to modify it... as in cut the entire thing off flush with the bottom of the hull and replace it with a flex shaft/strut. its the same thing they run on the MG29. it allows you to angle the prop so it isnt pointing at the bottom of the lake lolComment
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that motor would work, youd need a nice esc to power it though... just an fyi, as soon as you have it set up with that motor though, anything past half throttle is going to be very difficult to keep it right side up and in the waterComment
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yeah that is true I think that's probably getting a little bit more into it than I need I went ahead and put a horizontal triangle on the rear rotor Anne is kept the boat gliding through the water really nice which was an idea that I got from another person on the form. Show for last night it seems to fly to the water really well and I had tons of trigger left and it wanted to just go but I had no room obviously I wanted to test it in a large pool first before I got it in a lake or pond whatever you wanna call it. But I might look into doing not that way and Cutten off the shaft might be something fun to doComment
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I don't know if you saw the post that I did with the video on what my boat look like. But what I did was I removed the little foam like donut thing they had up front in the bow and I placed the battery dead center of the front of the bow and injected foam all up front.then put the esc in the middle of the boat the stock battery wentand mounted the receiver where the old receiver used to be.in: stalled larger water cooling lines for the esc.and I had to drill out the coupler that goes from the motor to the drive shaft.I also mounted 1 ounce weight on the left in rear side of the back of the boat and another one ounce weight on the middle left side next to the batteries old location to keep it from wanting to torque over.I think I need to add at least one more pounds to the left rear as last night when I would punch the gas it would get up on plane and then as I would get ready to pull the trigger all the way it would start to take off and it would literally flip itself completely over and land perfectly normal as if it were to be driving so I think I need to add just a little bit more weight. My only concern is what it is going to do on a long straight away I'm wondering if it might blow over.Comment
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yeah these things take a lot of work/money to get them how you want it... my 17" MG should be at my door today then I get home:) ill probably test it once stock and then switch everything over from my minimono... i also just finished building a UL-1 that i need to go test. It should do 35-40 on 4sComment
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