VictorC 🇺🇸 Basic
Leading Seaman · 69 pts
La Salle, United States
Member since Feb 2026
Last online 1 hour ago
Age 72
About
I was born in the UK and at the age of 15 built my first radio controlled boat in 1968. It had a REP super-regen valve (=vacuum tube) transmitter. I have a degree in Marine Engineering, Newcastle University 174 and was an Engineering Officer in the British Merchant Navy 74-81.
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Re: Fuse position?
If the boat only has a single motor then place the fuse between the battery and the speed controller, as close to the battery as possible. The the boat has has…
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HMS Dorsetshire
By a simple twist of fate (thank you Bob Dylan) "Model Boats" magazine that came in today's post has a news item about a book "County Class Cruisers" from Pen …
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Model Recovered from Davey Jones Locker
To prevent runaways it is possible to fit a servo fail safe. This will give a predetermined pulse output to a servo or motor control in the event of a loss of …
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Model Recovered from Davey Jones Locker
Glad that you got your boat back. The motor controllers that I have designed and built go to motor stop in the event of loss of transmitter signal. The motor c…
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two motors one esc
The use of self reseting breakers has been suggested. In the electric utility industry these are called 'reclosers' and are set to lock out after a finite numb…
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two motors one esc
Here are some design considerations. 1 Connecting both motors to a single ESC. 1.1 Ensure that the ESC can deliver the combined stall currents of both motors. …
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Re: Re: R.A.F Crash Tender
I built the AeroKits 34" Crash Tender in 1969. I'm about to do a complete overhaul of it. Including replacing the Fuji 3.5cc glow plug engine with twin brushle…
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Sunday at the pond
Water, luxury! The lake I sail on (Lake Mendota about 100 miles west of Chicago) is still frozen. Nice boats. I always thought that lifeboats make good subject…
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two or one
A couple of days ago "Chugalone100" asked, "In a twin-motor arrangement, is a throttle mixer required to properly coordinate differential thrust control, or ca…
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two or one
Thanks for the compliment! The model is a "C" class destroyer (also called 'Star" class) they were built by Palmers on Tyneside in north east England in 1897-8…
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