After taping my hatch shut and walking to the pond, I notice my prop turning two or three turns then stopping as if the motor was energized. I thought I may have bumped the throttle so I paid no attention to it.
About 2 minutes of great running I made the mistake of not easing up enough into a head wind and the boat flipped. Quite spectacularly I might add. The boat was 20' away from me so I left the transmitter on, placed it on the grass next to me while I sat and waited for the wind to blow it back to me. I kept seeing the prop spinning two, three turns then stop every 5 or 6 seconds. This continued for about 5 minutes until I could reach in and fetch it. I disconnected the batteries, waited a minute then powered them on again. Without doing anything, the prop was "hunting" again. I turned everything off and powered on just the boat, no transmitter, same thing.
Anybody seen this?
This is on a brand new leopard 4082 with Seaking 180, fully charged batteries.
I've seen this years ago on my nitro when a bolt on a metal motor mount was lose and the touching of metals close to the antenna would cause the rudder to jitter.
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