TFL Hobbies "Popeye" Hydro: P-Sport Hydro

[Doby]

Mines there to help support the fin mounting bracket, the fin is plenty tough.

[Jlov]

I have the thicker turn fin mount. It's about twice as thick as yours. Would I still need to do this mod with the thicker bracket? Thx Jeff

[Doby]

Can't hurt.

[ron1950]

just ran my popeye (no vid lol) darn thing was doing wheelies out of the turn when I hit the gas......looked great....still need to adjust the turn fin a shade but very happy with the boat....have no idear what the speed was but its pretty darn fast for now....yesterday tried to run it with some zippys that were new...one didn't want to charge up well the other seemed to do ok but when I threw the boat in it was all ready at cut off...bought another set of giants today....great batteries..so anyone need some zippies ?lol

[lenny]

Ron,
What esc are you using ?

[Jlov]

Lol Ron....got my own set of crappy Zippys that won't take a full charge. Lenny if you noticed in pics of new motor I have the intake for water jacket on low side now.... I remembered you telling me that what I was building the Popeye

[ron1950]

t 180 lennie I can prob take out the jump with my throttle curve but looks cool lol

[lenny]

Yes I did notice in pictures you ran them the right way,
That should help give a little more cooling with the add water in the jacket.
Also will help let out any trapped air bubbles in the line and jacket to.

[lenny]

Ron are you using the LV setting or just timing your runs ?

[ron1950]

well there seems to be a problem there lenny.....my good batts ran for about 2 and a half min and then the boat slowed down considerably...brought it back to shore and batts were at 3.8 per cell totaling 33 percent left in them..thats more then the 3.2 I have set in the esc for cut off....2 2s packs in series....giant power 5000 ma so I am wondering if the big prop and the nue1515 2200 sucked em down fast....they were very cool though same with esc and motor.....any idears? I just ordered some 6000ma packs a few ago we shell see

[lenny]

The LV on all the Seaking/Turnigy ecs is very touchy,
And kicks in to soon most of the time.
Some one said that those esc sometimes needs to be cycled with the LV on and off a few times,
And than for some reason they will work better.
But I have not tried testing that theory on those esc yet,
So I just run with the LV off and time my runs.
But that is only after I do a few short test runs to see how the packs are doing,
And also check the setup temps to.
I do this because a lot of my packs have low punch out till they get warmed up.

[ron1950]

ill try turning off the cut off thanks

[flraptor07]

ill try turning off the cut off thanks

Ron also I've found that a single 4s pack lives longer than two 2s packs. I'm running a single 4s crossways as far forward as I can get it. Mines working great right now.

[Jlov]

Got to run my Popeye a few times this week. Put the new 2mm UL-1 turn fin on as it's much stiffer. Still having the pulling problem but not as bad. Got a few vids. First one was at a pond and no GPS. Second two vids we're runs from today out in bay by my house. Got 53mph on first run and 51mph on second.

Here are the vids. Lower volume on first one if you don't want to hear my girlfriends yapping dog. Lol. Put music to second two vids cause her barking and whining made vids unbearable to watch...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4VAJ2b74Jw0

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WyTZ-aGGSTM

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pK5prkv3yik

[ron1950]

says private vid to me......cant watch em