So for the second time my sons bj took off on it's own, the first time he was able to turn it before it hit shore and it flipped up on the bank.
The second time we were out on the big boats and he was driving it for a few minutes when it took off and crashed into the side of a 47' triple engine Fountain! Luckly the guy was cool and understood what had happen, (he has a couple of kids also), but I will be going over and buffing out the minor damage soon.
It was one of the worst sounds you could have imagined, it wasn't a direct hit but the bj is wiped out, which was the least of my worry's. It sounded like someone took a sledge hammer to the side of a boat!
So why is this happening to the same boat, the batteries in the controller were fresh and the batteries in the boat were good. We didn't reprogram the esc or any other maintenance to the tx/rx. The batteries are 4200 ni-mh and he was just cruising when it took off behind the boats, less than 30 feet away. Are the stock controllers know for this?
I'll take some pics of the damage as i try to figure out what to do with it, i have repaired worse and was considering modding hull anyway but I need to figure out whats going on before something or someone gets hurt.
Thanks Rob.
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