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BRAVE BORDERER - BRUSHLESS SUMMARY
… l my earlier vessels used brushed motors. This was my first brushless. The model is now running well, but thought, for the benefit of others considering this transition to summarize my experiences. Must stress the performance of a brushless …
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Choose a brushless motor
… o redo as paint cover was poor. 4. Looking to find the best brushless motor for the job, remembering these boat race on 7.4v 3300mah batteries fo 5-6 mins. That gives a ruff consumption of 33 Amps which means the motor need to be able to ha …
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Going brushless after all!
I’ve decided to go brushless instead of brushed with a view to adding brushless at a later date. I had a turnigy motor and Hobbyking ESC sat in the spares box and have ordered another pair. Will run this on 2S lipo to start with and go 3s i …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
… derneath, my goal to to out tow a tug! with this hook, twin brushless and 28volts at my disposal I should have a fighting chance (nobody at my club has taken me on yet! )
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
… ench test, and we have problems Firstly, for anybody buying brushless esc's with muliple set ups, get a programming card! I have always found them fiddly at best to set up, but when there is two of them, nightmare! This took ages, although …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
… w We found with the Huntsman, which uses a larger outrunner brushless motor, whilst running, it stays relatively cool, but once stopped there is as latent build up of heat. it subsequently had to be water cooled, so we have decided lets do …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
… olute direct drive, no couplings, joints or anything. Using brushless outrunner motors, I intend to remove the motor shafts, and have the propshafts direct through the motors, 100% direct drive, big gamble, I have not seen this done before. …
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Brushless ESC + Motor
The brushless ESC is now in, its un branded but is rated for 50 amps and up to 22V so should easily be able to handle the motor. I connected it up to the motor and it works ok just a little cogging at low speed because the motor is sensorel …
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Brushless ESC and mini servo
Small ESC and mini servo for rudder, again from my model airplane building days. Joe
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
little update, after a miserable winter with this boat, having a number of problems, which were esc settings, I decided to give it a treat with some Xmas gift money. My other big fast boat runs two 5000mah 3 cell lipos, and I only have one …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
well we are back to normal, not convinced I have altogether solved it, but I think its a combination of things. I turned off the low voltage cut off, and things seemed to be much better. I tried the castle creations esc's and things where v …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
all stripped down, inspected the motors and no evidence of any faults, I took this opportunity to clean everything and replaced a couple of bearings, but no tight spots, it runs perfectly, but something is causing a spike in amps and watts …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
well disappointingly still not sorted. I ran the boat a few days ago, with the beautiful new props, and all hooked to data logging, but alas, it still goes into low voltage shut down. I tried different batteries, it does the same. if I disc …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
off work today, and have not been able to settle with the fireboat speed problem hanging over me, so after extensive fiddling etc, its back to Gautby Road lake in Birkenhead for trials. I am happy to say I recorded 21.5mph in windy choppy c …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
video of all lights operating from transmitter. I had to paint the inside of all the tops to stop the light shining through, hence blacked out!. For normal operation wher the lights are not used, I have small jst connectors that njust disco …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
some detail of the lights as asked for by Alan!
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
here is the finished article, well for now. To do: 3 lifting hooks on each side some towing rope etc My new props are just being completed by Propshop, so looking forward to fitting them a lot of information has been used to make them, so h …
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Aerokits 46" fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
its pretty much up to date now. To give more info regarding data capture, I have an eagle tree logger, with gps expander, an lcd display, rev counter. I borrowed a friends, he has same gear, and connected to each motor/esc/battery combo, to …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
last pic is a good shot of the hull finish, it turned out like glass! You can see the shape of the rudders, the boat turns real nice, no roll, and does not slow down. so what was the calamity.???? I broke my own golden rule, fiddling and me …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Not all went to plan with this build, remember me throwing the can of plasticote!, I actually lost some fittings and had to buy again, on the first water test I had virtually no steering, didnt show the pre-edited video of slamming the wall …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
well nobody has asked for more.................. but you are getting it anyway! some light on the subject! white LED mast, green, red and blue LED navigation lights, pygmy wheelhouse lights, same in front cabin, same in engine room. Pygmy l …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Have not mentioned this before, if anybody is unfamiliar with modelling timbers, take a look on their website, it is joyous! I had a few things from them, the small padlock that features on most of the pictures, on one of the hatches, door …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Here is the completed "tub". By moving the towhook out of the way, it all comes out in a complete unit Once the tub was constructed, I enjoyed this part of the build, as it was interesting, and a challenge, and turned out quite nice!
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
well we are coming to an end soon, the next bit was really cheeky, and made me laugh, inspired by HS93 again. The salvage hoses, Tried allsorts of things, , old shower hose, big drinking straws, plastic pipe, what an earth do you use, to lo …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Humbrol metalcoat paint is real good, comes in a couple of colours, steel, aluminium etc, paint it on (I find aerosol works best) it looks dreadful and you panic, then you buff with a cloth, and it looks superb! I rubbed a bit hard with the …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
so much for building light with all the plasticard, this hook, solid brass, weighs a ton! Now its time to cheat, cause when painted, who knows what materials are used, its our secret! The track would have taken too long with brass, so its p …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
(I'm suposed to be off work to do jobs etc, not much happening there!) Its a strange arrangement the way the hook attaches to the base, and the pivoting action, I have plans from Vosper, but unfortunately they are just too faint to upload. …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Back on topic, the deck was done out of the boat, and just dropped in. fastener detail on the battery cover are just dressmaker pins. The wood is glued to the plasticard base using cyno, and the grey card for caulking is glued with bostick. …