Hey guys,
So I got a new Shocker hull w/ hardware -- 2x 180 Seakings V3's + 2x 1900kv 2200W 6pole motors, 38mm 3 blade props + 2x 6s revo lipos.
I take it out for just a couple minutes with a few short bursts to make sure everything was looking OK. So after that I take it out of the water and as I'm walking back... I could start to hear a high pitched whistle going on within the hull and with the boat still in my hands a loud BOOM goes off... so as I almost *!***!***!***!** my pants-- I throw the hull onto the grass and run for my life. I could see 2 streams of smoke pouring out of the tips of the 2 front sponsons. After like 10-20 seconds I realize it'd be a good idea to disconnect the batteries to avoid any further damage or possible damage. I tear off the gorilla tape off the hatch as fast as I could... the only time I ever regretted having super strong tape lol and just start disconnecting all the battery wiring as fast as I could without trying to inhale of that smoke and I just let the hull sit there outside for at least 2 hours to let it vent out. I went back inside the house and took a shower. Even after the shower... I still smell like... the famous magic smoke that you guys keep talking about. My hands still smell. The entire hull smells. The lipos smell...
So anyways as I inspected the damage I noticed that the only thing that was really hot was that 1 ESC that blew up... everything else (both motors and other ESC) was fairly warm but not even close to as hot. There was not a single drop of water inside the hull either. Water tubing had water in them too, so I'm kind of stumped here.
Don't these Seaking ESC's have Thermal protection? What on earth would have caused it to blow up like that-- perhaps faulty ESC? :/
Here are some pictures of the damage ... if you look closely it looks like the explosion blew through the front seams of the hull.
One thing I'm surely thinking to do now is increase the size of the hull water pickup there and increase the cooling tubing diameter size from 3mm to 4-5mm.
Thinking maybe even going as far as putting a small water pump in there to provide adequate cooling no matter what.
And here I thought these ESC's would probably be overkill for these motors...
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