The scorpion motor was tested but it got way to hot for my comfort and with no way to water cool it I wont be going that direction personally. I think it will be an available option for the club but when it was ran it was about 40 degrees outside with ice cold water and the motor came back after a 2 minute run on a 55mm prop with a temp of 155 and that was after it had about a minute or more to cool down, meaning it was much warmer than that when it was running. The NEU runs much cooler in our testing so ill personally be running that.
As far as the batteries, it seems in the club its somewhere around 15 seconds a lap at full speed, all heats are 5 laps, so the race will be 1 minute 15 seconds roughly, and around a minute mill time. All our testing we have been able to get 2 and a half minutes out of our runs, and the batteries still had some mah left, not much and not much room for error but it seems to work. With the 10s setup we would have had much more room for comfort but it was just too fast and that was with a 50mm prop so not much else we can do to slow it down.
1527 1.5y is what we are running
No we had heard it was a good setup.... the 1y is way too high a kv.... running that motor on 8s would be no different than running the 1.5y on 10s speed wise. The intent was to slow it down. We are trying to make a super safe setup and have it run 55mph to run with the .67 nitros and not have a speed advantage.
the scorpion motor worked it just ran too hot for my liking so ill stick with the NEU, however I think you are remembering incorrectly, when you guys ran the scorpion it was over 150 after some cool down time. 155 was the exact temp after the first reading. Either way thats fine for a brushless motor, but in the middle of a hot summer it will be even higher and heat is certainly the enemy.
As far as the mill period goes the reason it will be ran in RCU is because the club is all about scale racing. The unlimited hydroplanes run a mill period and fight for lanes. So the scale boats run a mill, the mill is just another part of the race. Many of the nitro boats get on the course at the 3 minute mark though and I doubt many of the electric boats will be spending that much time milling. I personally enjoy the mill as much as the race, its all about strategy.
Hey Bob just did some measuring and the boat seems to be right on, Steve did a good job.
Boat total length is 45.25 and RCU allows 43.25 to 45.25
Boat width is 23.25 and RCU allows 19.56 to 23.93
Tunnel varies a little but at its widest it is 11.50 and RCU allows 10.46 to 12.79
Sponson depth is 3.35 and RCU allows 3.04 to 3.71
As far as the Jones sponsons are concerned the small sponson is 5.25 and at the same point on the other sponson is 6.50 ... as you know it the rule book it states that Jones sponsons need to be approximately "1 1/4" difference which is exactly what the sponsons are.
So this boat from Steve follows all the rules and meets all the RCU requirements. As you know we are trying to allow people to get into the club that dont have the experience some of us have to help grow the club. This boat can be many different boats that have available registrations and not everyone can build a boat from scratch like you can. That takes a lot of skill and time. So this is a great option for all those that want to get involved but cannot build their own hull from scratch.
Looking forward to testing in a few months with all the new boats. Hows the progress coming on your guys end with the molding process? Hope its going great cannot wait to see all those beautiful new boats.
I keep hearing that about the scorpion. Maybe it was esc settings or maybe the x455 prop was too much or something I dunno but it got too hot for my liking. The way everything is going right now it seems like the scorpion will be an allowed motor in RCU, along with the NEU and maybe a couple others. The goal is to get as many more people involved in the club as we can and help it grow.
