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aerobats crash tender
… nd that motor on ebay or wherever then pretty much any 35mm brushless motor of 1000kv to 1200kv would be sufficient I would say. A basic guide is that the higher the kv then the smaller the max prop size, but equally if you lower the voltag …
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Graupner Krabbe Ton 12…the kit, not the boat😁
… ntact….never again. I was thinking about my usual outrunner brushless, when I remembered I had a brand new MFA 2.5 to 1 380 sized geared motor in my possession. Went with that. After making up a mount and installing the shaft and tube I did …
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29" Double Horse 7007 Flying Fish
… motor and the ESC (they are very expensive I imagine). The brushless motor has remarkable performance. Can you attach some photos of the propeller area and the point where the water enters? The motor cost £56 including water jacket, the ES …
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Vintage model Company Thames police launch
… ze 'p' frame as per the original design. Also included is a brushless 1100kv motor and esc from M Tronics with a Raboech 40mm M4 prop. I will never finish it so it has to go. I am looking for around £200 ono plus carriage at cost or view an …
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(Naval Ship) Fletcher
… 1:125 (5/10) 2018 refit, Brushed motor + gearbox removed, 2 Brushless motors + 2 controllers fitted, Transmitter setup to enable tank steering. I have taken steps to help prevent my Fletcher from sinking, the addition of foam + several full …
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Re: (Naval Ship) Fletcher
… bit of trouble and eventually I removed it and installed 2 Brushless motors. The 2 speed controllers are to give independent motor control. If you look carefully (zoom in) at the 2 photos, one shows the model with a single brushed motor an …
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Smoke spaghetti
… n/off from TX to save battery power. Could even use a small brushless ESC to control it. Still playing with it. Diagram in pics used the pump from one HengLong to give the pulse, and the fan forced tank from another. yesterdays test, uses a …
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Identification help - not a Sea Rover?
… mpressed with the speed and handling as had fitted a 1250kv brushless. It now has a pumped water cooling system running from a separate battery and a new rudder as the original had a lot of wear. The 2 hatches were warped and ill fitting. I …
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Taplin-Baker Hydrojet, RKH products
… shing. Now, it would be fun to set this up in a boat with a brushless outrunner on say, 4-6 lipo cells and just go to town, but there’s cheaper and readily available alternatives for that. I don’t really collect much anymore, so I’m probabl …
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Azure Spirit - Second trial run
After an upgrade from brushed to brushless, this is the result.
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Think it will work?
… et 30 a rare beast 12v to 24v. May be better to go lipo and brushless if speed is your thing. Regards Roy
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Fairey Hunsman renovation part 6
NOW SOLD Hi, Have added two brushless motors prop shafts etc, twin rudders as per original boat and also a cabin roof. Did a test run (sorry no pics) but she was great, predictable and stable in rough conditions. I have started on the inner …
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NQD PX-16
… and thought I would add water cooling to a couple of cheap brushless ESCs that have been in my bits and bobs box. along with some spares for my FT011. In my computer box I had some heat transfer tape from a NVME SSD. So my ESCs had an inte …
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Shrimp fishing boat Capt CJ
… ted in Pine Island Florida. It is powered by a water cooled brushless motor. Battery is a 2S ( 7.4 v ) LiPo battery ( a 3S was way too much for it ) and it is still very fast. I run it at scale speed and the duration approaches an hour run …
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Re: NQD PX-16
… lly didn't plan well. but it was my first venture with twin brushless. https://model-boats.com/blogs/39797 Regards Roy
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(Racing Boat) NDQ Modified
… apped NDQ cheap hull, ripped out radio replaced motors with brushless 2845 2600kv add rudder/ servo, trim tabs and turn fins also added strakes to the underside, foamed the hull to make it unsinkable add radio link radio modified to control …
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Re: MAS 562 update
… rs and batteries and better buoyancy. I would use lipos and brushless motors and it will run well on the plan, construct with 1mm ply. If you want a small, and easy to construct model I would suggest a plastic kit made by Italeri discontinu …
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Connectors
My latest Turnigy brushless motor, a 4240, 740 has banana type plugs moulded on to the three leads which connect to the ESC. See picture. The pins of these plugs are 3mm diameter. I would like to know what these are. Are they 3mm bullet con …
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Re: Baby Bootlegger
Hi Peter, I am running a brushless 3660 motor, 60A speed control and a 2s 7.4v Lipo. I get about 25 minutes of run time. RR
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Using gears to match speeds
… I decided to do just that. Though I have used an oversized brushless motor, 35mm dia. in a 23" boat and tootling around everything stays cool. That motor is powerful and only driving a small 25mm prop so not working very hard at all. The m …
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Huntsman
… Port corner. I plan to upgrade the 550 brushed motor with a Brushless motor. She then might lift off the water a bit more. She was running on a quite heavy 12volt lead acid battery. Next time (when I get around to it) she will run on a LiPo …
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Back to work: Testing propulsion. Part I.
… g around 8150 rpm for the nominal scale speed. I always use brushless motors. For these and a 2S Li-Ion battery, Kv would be 1131 (minimum). For a 3S bat, Kv should be 754 (minimum). Let’s say that Kv should range between 900 and 1300. I ha …
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Wiring Design for Model Boats
… h/isolator (see picture) Bullet connectors are desirable on brushless motors as they enable you to change rotation easily. Once sailing trials are completed, these connectors can be replaced by permanent joints that are properly sealed or d …
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Do we want to talk about propellers?
… I only have the white one left now 51" long. It will have a Brushless powering it now it was going to have that 26cc electric start blinged up Zenoah running it. But I have now sold off all of my IC engines to go Brushless.
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Huntsman
… I will pause for a day or two. I watched YouTube to see how brushless transformed performance. I’m going to choose two small motors.
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Fairey swordsman running
… But for a future project I'm using a water-jet which uses a brushless inrunner motor and comes with a water-jacket and take-off point on the drive for the water supply so it makes sense to use it especially as the motor will be working hard …
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Typhoon
… ng to take my time on this one. I plan to use a 3660 2200KV brushless motor and 60A esc (I have on the shelf). Is water cooling absolutely necessary? I have a fan for the esc and a heat sink for the motor. Any input is helpful. Thanks RR
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Sea Plane Tenders 11 - Final touches
… SPT441 uses a Speed 400 motor SPT409 uses an A2212, 1000KV brushless motor 2. SPT441 uses a 6V 1.6Ah NiMH battery SPT409 uses a 2S 1500mAh lipo battery 3. SPT441 has forward and reverse SPT409 has forward only. 4. Performance SPT441 is fas …