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Thats really cute and looks like fun. Bring 3 of them to a race sometime and make a class.
Doug
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Originally posted by Drax21A flood chamber will make very little if any difference to the speed of the boat whilst planing, I don't know the Cyberstorm (most Monos over here are stepped hulls) but some hulls require weight to keep them on the water and some don't, if yours doesn't then the chamber wall and possibly lead will add a little weight and affect performance slightly (still well worth doing though), if it does need weight it wont affect performance at all. Balancing a hull with a flood chamber is easy just put your battery as far to the left as you can get it, stick it in the bath upside down and see if it turns over, (make sure you have a race number on it I have seen a fair few boats that passed the bath tub test but failed to self-right on their first heat with the high weight of the number) if it does your golden and if not tip it up and check for trapped air and cut more holes as needed then add lead a little at a time as far left as you can get it, if it rights but not fat enough look at the bubbles, if the bubbles come out for a while you need more holes, if the bubbles stop quickly but it take a while to sink you need more weight. I guess you will be making your own chamber which is a balancing act to avoid adding weight, as the bigger the chamber is the less offset you can have your battery and vica versa. Pompebled wrote a nice guide to installing a flood chamber over on RC Groups.Originally posted by Steven Vaccaro
Our speeds are lower here because of the extra runtime we run that Steve mentioned (mono races are for 6 minutes +10 second mill +in lap, and depending on where in the UK you are the 560g or 5000mAh cell limit gives you roughly half the energy to do it with. A Mono2 has at about 1/5th of the power a balls out American P Mono boat has, 1/3rd the power of a P Offshore and 1/2 - 2/3rds the power of a P Spec Mono.
Do try racing, its a lot of fun amongst a great bunch of friendly and like minded folk. I would guess a good Mono2 would cover somewhere in the region of 4 miles give or take during the course of a race.Paul Upton-Taylor, Greased Weasel Racing.Comment
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I was wondering how long it would take to get on this topic
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Chris your boats are innovative and wonderful to watch.Steven Vaccaro
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I didnt want to crap all over your post so here goes
http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/...705#post372705Steven Vaccaro
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Chris, do you any pics that show how this was done? I'm building a boat for my daughters and this would be great!I'm married with children, you can't scare me!
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