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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash (
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I am done and have given up with this as it seems to have turned into "Back Patting" and trading "likes" rather than Question of the day!!
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💬 Re: Robbe Sirius - 1st RC Model Sailboat
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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This is now sold!!
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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The problem with the AI search and response, she may not get the correct 'fit' for an answer, but you need to take the 'reasonable doubt' approach and choose the nearest of the 4 choices on offer. In this case there were 3 ships (a number of much dispute) that supposedly warned the Titanic of Ice on that night.. One of them and the one most popular ship to the TV documentaries was the one AI chose here as the 'correct answer'!!
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📝 Rc connection issues
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Again and again and again...... 😂
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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There seems to be disconnects between places, dates and times with these answers and any internet research.. 🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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We learn the facts but not the dates!!
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📝 Question of the Day?
7 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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For one member to be correct 100% of the time (Czech Republic), surely someone out of the "Top members played in the past 30 days" should be @ or close to 100%??
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📝 Question of the Day?
7 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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I think I'm gonna make me an Astrolabe out of Lego to see if I can navigate!! 😁
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📝 Anyone use drill batteries
7 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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I would guess the 18v drill would have a motor inside that would be perfect?? The ESC would defined by the Motor, Brushed or Brushless..
Brushless ESCs run up to a higher max voltage but there are Brushed ESCs that support 24volt..
DC to DC devices at the current you would require would not be small or efficient and I'm not sure how a speed controller would handle them..
Remember also Lipos require a strict cut-off voltage else they will be damaged if you over discharge them. If you use a Lipo Drill Battery, this protection will be built into the battery and if/when the low voltage is reached, the vessel could just stop dead in the middle of the pond!!
Brushless ESCs run up to a higher max voltage but there are Brushed ESCs that support 24volt..
DC to DC devices at the current you would require would not be small or efficient and I'm not sure how a speed controller would handle them..
Remember also Lipos require a strict cut-off voltage else they will be damaged if you over discharge them. If you use a Lipo Drill Battery, this protection will be built into the battery and if/when the low voltage is reached, the vessel could just stop dead in the middle of the pond!!
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📝 Deans Marine LCM6 1/24th scale landing craft...
7 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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I know the device.. I am wondering what your receiver set up will be?? A separate channel for each motor and the Rudder mixed with the Steering port, or no rudder at all?? (ie Tank steering??)
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📝 Question of the Day?
7 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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What Causes " Milky seas phenomenon" - Answer "Bioluminescent plankton" and it's bloom!!
I think the correct response here depends in the direction of the wind!!
I think the correct response here depends in the direction of the wind!!
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📝 Full right rudder lock
7 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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I would have a guess and say the rudder servo is stalling and the receiver has a 'brown out' and the reboot of the Tx resets it.. I would check the Rudder endpoints to be sure you are not DRIVING the servo beyond the mechanical limits of the installation.
BTW.. What Receiver and battery are you using??
BTW.. What Receiver and battery are you using??
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📝 Question of the Day?
8 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Who ever is batting for Italy is doing a Sterling job!!!
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📝 Question of the Day?
9 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Merry Roger is a new one on me!!!
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
9 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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No interest in this anymore??
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📝 Sourcing Lead Shot in UK
11 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Ebay is a good source for these supplies. Search for lead ballast... 👍
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📝 Question of the Day?
12 months ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Again.. none of the above!
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📝 MFA stock going to the Component Shop.
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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📝 MFA stock going to the Component Shop.
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Closing down stock going to the Component Shop... Should be a positive step forward...
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Tied myself up in 4
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📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Its not an Airfix model??
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💬 Re: Brushless motor sync problems
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Flaxby.. You have done this all this pretty much by the book. As I commented before, I would replace the 3 blade fuses in the Motor Phases with links as they are an extra single point of failure and maybe a liability rather than a help. The 40A breaker on the Battery Positive will serve to protect the motor.
I say protect the motor, because the motor you have chosen is the weakest link on the propulsion chain (if in fact there is a weak link!) What you have there is an 850W motor, which at 5s will get really pissy if you exceed 42ish amps (850w/20v = 42.5 amp) The battery will give you virtually unlimited current and the ESC will pop at about 100A Peak so that leaves the motor at risk should you stall the Prop and give the throttle some welly! The 40amp breaker may protect you but I would go lower say 35amp (as they trip slowly) or even remove this if you don't want it to trip just because it feels like it and leave your vessel stranded somewhere. (BTW - 850W on a 1M scale boat is a LOT of push! - for more push get a bigger motor)
The above is all theoretical as there will be wiggle room in most of the components. On the big Electric Helis we have no trips or fuses. The biggest failing items are the batteries as they do work hard and get hot.. You can't water cool anything on a Heli!!
Just so you know where you are, to start (as is suggested elsewhere in this thread) you should invest a recording Watt Meter and you'll know exactly where you stand on the power consumption front.
As far as your battery care regime goes, you are over and above with your handling. Remember, never drop them and if you do, quarantine them out doors for a day or two to make sure they are OK. Last thing.. NEVER let the batteries get too hot to hold after a run. If they do, you need higher capacity battery, a smaller prop or LESS throttle!!!
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I say protect the motor, because the motor you have chosen is the weakest link on the propulsion chain (if in fact there is a weak link!) What you have there is an 850W motor, which at 5s will get really pissy if you exceed 42ish amps (850w/20v = 42.5 amp) The battery will give you virtually unlimited current and the ESC will pop at about 100A Peak so that leaves the motor at risk should you stall the Prop and give the throttle some welly! The 40amp breaker may protect you but I would go lower say 35amp (as they trip slowly) or even remove this if you don't want it to trip just because it feels like it and leave your vessel stranded somewhere. (BTW - 850W on a 1M scale boat is a LOT of push! - for more push get a bigger motor)
The above is all theoretical as there will be wiggle room in most of the components. On the big Electric Helis we have no trips or fuses. The biggest failing items are the batteries as they do work hard and get hot.. You can't water cool anything on a Heli!!
Just so you know where you are, to start (as is suggested elsewhere in this thread) you should invest a recording Watt Meter and you'll know exactly where you stand on the power consumption front.
As far as your battery care regime goes, you are over and above with your handling. Remember, never drop them and if you do, quarantine them out doors for a day or two to make sure they are OK. Last thing.. NEVER let the batteries get too hot to hold after a run. If they do, you need higher capacity battery, a smaller prop or LESS throttle!!!
WATT METER....
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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A Google definition..... 'a person who puts an edge, especially a finishing edge, on a garment, surface, lens, etc. a machine for finishing or making an edge, as for stitching, beveling, or trimming'
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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stranded on a desert! (in 2)
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1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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A 3zee today! Must get to the boat festival tomorrow...
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1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Everything just has to be the same!
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1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Breathing underwater here in 2
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Crackerjack!
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 Cpt-Pugwash ( Midshipman)
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Quote.. "On 29 August 1782, the 100-gun warship Royal George, sunk whilst lying at anchor off Spithead and was Britain's worst shipwreck until the Titanic over a century later."
How did it end up in Scotland??
How did it end up in Scotland??
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