propulsion

Started by jim-lake
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propulsion

HI Jim,
best of luck with the project, you are going into unchartered water here! Fireboat has a brushless single screw in his, its quick, but is the 3 foot model, and HS93 has twin outrunners in his small Fireboat, its very fast, but dont know how you will get on with the bigger 4 foot model. The problem is expense I think. You will need the 2 motors, 2 esc's, two lots of packs, if you go to all the bother of the motors and esc's there is no point spoiling things with a poor battery supply.

If you wait a week or two, HS93 and I are almost finished sorting a brushless setup on my 4 foot Huntsman 28, so the size and weight will be very similar. We did many months research, but there isnt much info to go on as most Brushless set ups are with the lightweight and smaller Fast electric race guys who have very different boats to us.

With the 3 foot Fireboat hulls, they become very unstable being narrow, it will be very interesting to see the 4 foot going brushless as it shouild handle far better.
Keep us posted with your progress,
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propulsion

I have the large Fire tender as retailed by Mike Cummings and cannot decide onthe power units. I am toying with the Idea of fitting 2 Scorpion outrunner motors with two prop shafts and appropiate props and batteries. I would like to keep things to scale with twin shafts etc. and the motors would have their own batteries and speed controllers.What Is the general opinion of this Idea, would It work or would It prove ridiculously over powered and be barely controllable.
many thanks In advance, Jim

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