Hobby King Apparition

[rdplain]

took you long enough!

Man you beat me to posting a link to my own video!!
The Miss Geico is going 42.0mph according to the gps and the fastest I have recorded with this setup is 43.2mph. We didnt get a top speed reading on the Apparition today as the GPS didnt work properly in the boat, will try and get one tomorrow.

[rdplain]

Check all the screws on the rudder assembly, some of them were loose on mine, just check all screws. I have only ran mine twice, i keep getting water inside, i think its coming through the flex shaft so i got some grim racer speed grease see if that helps. Other than that ots a nice hull, its all about how you set it up. What esc are you running in yours?

I did notice after the initial run, that the screw that holds the turning rod pivot was very close to falling off. Some blue Loctite and all is well!

I greased the flex shaft before the first run and I got about 7 runs before i started getting water in the hull from the stuffing tube, completly dry on every run before that. The temps went WAY up because of the additional friction with water being in the tube. Upon disassembly, it was completly void of any grease, and filled with water.

But i did hit 42.9 mph on 4S !

[penz]

That pin your talking about, it has a small set screw that holds it in place, mine didn't even have the set screw!... and of the 4 screws that attach the rudder/strut assembly to the boat 3 of them were way loose... Geetting a small socket in there to tighten those was a pain in the rear!

I'm having issues with all my grease coming out way to fast... its oozing out where the stuffing tube meets the strut... I wonder if I should seal this area?

[rdplain]

AND... The magic smoke has been let out...

Luckily it was the cheap motor and not the ESC.
Not sure what happened, about 3 minutes into the first run of the day, boat slowed way up, like the batteries were done, then it just stopped. Opening up the hatch literally "let the magic smoke out". A very rancid smoke at that. As I was disassembling the motor, there was no magnetic field left, and the winds looked like they were covered in melted chocolate. Pretty nasty stuff... Going to throw my UL-1 2030 kV motor in it and see what she does.

[lyndon915]

[Just ADD Water]

[ron1950]

let us know what temps etc the ul1 motor does speed also

[penz]

AND... The magic smoke has been let out...

Luckily it was the cheap motor and not the ESC.
Not sure what happened, about 3 minutes into the first run of the day, boat slowed way up, like the batteries were done, then it just stopped. Opening up the hatch literally "let the magic smoke out". A very rancid smoke at that. As I was disassembling the motor, there was no magnetic field left, and the winds looked like they were covered in melted chocolate. Pretty nasty stuff... Going to
throw my UL-1 2030 kV motor in it and see what she does.

Hope that ul1 motor works out for you. The tacon 3674 1900kv I'm running in my app is solid! 4s with an x442 prop and temps only at 100...

[rdplain]

So the UL- 1 motor was a success.
4S - 47.5 Mph
5S - 54.8 Mph
Still with the Grim Racer 42x55 prop.
I was able to walk away from the Miss Geico at will. Boat was very stable, and still very controllable even at 50+ mph.
Very happy with this setup. The UL-1 ESC is NOT meant to anything over 4S, so i only did a few passes on 5S. Temps stayed in the 120's.
The stock bearings in the UL-1 motor were a little rough, so I replaced them with full ceramic bearings from Avid Bearing. I'm sure that was all the difference.

[SLOW]

Got my apparition running today...
4s
Fiego 8xl
Octura m445
old etti 150 esc
53.6 mph...

[lyndon915]

Video or it didnt happen

[rdplain]

Video or it didnt happen

The only thing the video would show, is his boat on it's lid...

TOO MUCH TORQUE~!~