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Re: New planing hull design.
… a small fuel tank of fuel to carry in the hull. Our current brushless motors and LiPo battery packs with suitable ESC probably weight quite a lot more and should make quite a dent in the suggested additional ballast weight suggested? Bob
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Re: Malcolm Campbells Bluebird K3
… r-charged Rolls Royce Merlin engine would be nice.....but a brushless out-runner would be a more likely choice, facing forwards and mounted in the rear of the model with a geared drive shaft running underneath it - just like the prototype. …
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A new naval project. What to do now?
… the mechanical and electronic components, particularly the brushless motors. I'll need to find a size and scale that will allow for acceptable space both in the basement and in the car. I could then complete it to make it visually pleasing …
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Little Shelley Foss
Dual counter rotating props driven by independent 1000KV brushless motors. 6V / 3.5Ah Lead Acid Battery 2 16BL30 Quickrun Hobby Wing ESC's 3 ch. 2.4GHz Hobby King receiver Built to replace the Beaver Tug
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Building from plans
… eless designs that really does suit the modern era of small brushless motors and LiPo batteries - possibly even better than the original intended .21 glow engines. My Remora is a few years old now, and although it was designed as a competit …
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Building from plans
… plan and the design still performs really well today with a brushless motor - although the one I built in 1965 had an OS21 Marine engine to power it. LewZ showed us his idea of making a lighting box as a way of copying plans, and this idea …
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
… s. It performed as I'd hoped pulling away smoothly with its brushless motor and maintaining slow speed when required, very slow speed in fact and no cogging! Only issue, though not that important, is that it could do with a bit more port ru …
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Re: Classic Model Power Boats
… l boat in the future. I am considering using small aircraft brushless motors/ESC/lipos for these as I have a set-up formula designed to give around 100watts which I've used successfully for several small planes and I have plenty of Lipo pac …
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The Motor & Prop shaft.
At this stage I need to do the final alignment of the brushless motor, coupling and prop-shaft. The motor mount is just a regular glass reinforced plastic mount from ModelBoatBits for a M500/600 motor. The motor is an Overlander T3548/05 as …
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Something a little different-Horizon Harbor Tug
… ad to make a mount for my preferred motor, the Zippkits 650 brushless outrunner, that’s coupled to the shaft with a good solid coupler. Esc is a HobbyWing 16BL30 30 amp unit. I had to do some modifications to mount my preferred Amazon sourc …
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Anyone tried Solar Powered RC boat?
… long drive shaft or outboard arrangement, so perhaps a slim brushless motor in each hull would be best.
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Anyone tried Solar Powered RC boat?
… mind - long slim hull for low drag, large propeller, 300 kV brushless motor. There are 15 solar panels on the roof, each rated at 2v 0.25A connected in series-parallel to give 10v at 0.75A (i.e. 7.5W). Scale is 1:25, size about 854 mm x 152 …
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Dole Aztec complete... Well almost!
… 4-5) coats of Krylon Clear. The model is driven by a 1000KV brushless motor connected directly to a 1" five bladed prop. Power source is a 7.4v 1800ma lipo battery, and a Quicrun 16BL30 ESC. I have yet to actually take her out on her maiden …
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A Banana Boat??!
… .5 inches long with a width of about 4.5". I plan to have a brushless motor driving a 1 inch 5 bladed brass prop. Chris
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KD Perkasa Class Drawings.
… on our club lake at Southport, it was powered by a pair of brushless motors and it drove very well. I was impressed enough to start looking for some detailed plans for these impressive craft and found an advert for a set online - but they …
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Re: LesRo Rapier 1 Rebuild.
… o carry an alloy water-cooled engine mount for the intended brushless motor. A platform was made under the wheelhouse to carry a pair of LiPo batteries along with a shelf to hold the ESC. A servo mount was fitted in to the rear cabin and th …
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3D printed tugboat
… ut it runs surprisingly well. Power is from a 3s lipo and a brushless outrunner - pics in a later post. I'm planning to make an autonomous boat this year and this is a potential candidate Printed from ASA and ABS filament on a Bambu X1 Carb …
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Midwest/Model Expo Fireboat
… he build, the side-mounted rudder servo installation, and a brushless tug motor from Zippkits.
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Cruise ship?
… e prop and 90 degree rudder. She's powered by a tiny 1000kv brushless motor and 5amp esc. Runs on a 1s 1000mah lipo. She's now permanently in dry dock and lives as an ornament as she didn't work out as well as I'd have liked. As I type this …
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Difficult Restoration's?
… ved the 540 motor and planed to try putting in a reasonable brushless and put on one of my boats but not sure which one yet. It still has all it's original stickers on it as you can see in the first 2 pictures. Third picture is the Krick Br …
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Palfinger PB-950A (kinda)
… t PBR, I decided to give it a try. It's a decent 1s powered brushless jetboat but it lacks a decent control system and reverse. I gutted the control system and added a small 1s brushless esc/receiver unit for a micro plane. The reverse is c …
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Re: The tub test
… 276mph my only other "affordable" option was a high winding brushless set-up with high powered lipos and cooling. That's what I opted for and was lucky enough to stumble upon a stock Taxxas Spartan drivetrain that might get me close. Down t …
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VIC SMEED'S VIVACITY
… rdmeyer who owns SAB Model Boat Fittings - thanks Bill! The brushless motor and speed controller should be arriving in the next week or two. When they do, I intend to set up an engine/propshaft test to see what the performance specs are lik …
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Sprite
… a decent speed and have a lot of experience with different brushless motors in a variety of model power boats. The water-cooled alloy motor mount will make it easy for me to try different motors, but I think I will start with the least pow …
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VIC SMEED'S VIVACITY
… suing a brushed set up or should I just stick to looking at brushless? I would like the boat to show a reasonable turn of speed, but I am not wanting a 'raceboat' - I have seen footage of a Sea Queen moving at quite 'dangerous' speeds using …
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LESRO SPRITE
Not sure what the run time will be with the new brushless set-up, so I've put 15mins as a start point; I know I can get 10-12+ mins with this size motor and a 3200mAh 4s Lipo in a 63ins span KK Super Sixty trainer plane revving an11x4" prop …
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Sprite
Sprite Plus - fitting the motor mounting baseplate. With a brushless motor fitted onto the alloy water-cooled mount and joined to the 5mm prop shaft with a solid coupling, the angle of the motor mount assembly can be clearly seen. The carbo …
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Sprite
… and fitted. Having fitted the solid 5mm x 5mm coupling to a brushless motor and then screwing this assembly in-between the carbon "side spats" of the motor mount, I had the precise location for the motor to be fitted after it is clamped ont …