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Thanks for posting that video Jeremy. Tom Foley's twin is sick fast!! I was in that heat, and it was exciting! Fast and Furious... At the end of that heat I asked my pitman, Dick Jones, where I finished.. To my surprise he said I won.... As Joe Dirt once said, "WHAAAAATTT !!"

A few years ago I bought a few of those to experiment with. After some tinkering and thinking about it a bit, I decided not to risk a nitro boat on such a thin connection. I was worried about vibration and rough water switching it off. Also not sure how much current the switch would handle...

The sponson supports are wood.... but it is natural old growth virgin... way better than any titanium or carbon product around these days... ;)

A good friend just aquired this very early Gator. I'm debating finishing it and running it for nostalgia's sake. Is it more nostalgic sitting on a shelf like it is now? If I do decide to finish the boat, it will get a modern radio system, but I'm also debating whether it should be somewhat...

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Yeah, I agree, I dont know how well the crimped spot weld conducts(It should be an electro weld of some sort even if it is folded over and crimped, during the crimp is when the electric is applied to weld them together). I signed up at offshoreelectrics only days ago, and I've read some of your...

I simply did a lot of normal soldering with a normal 40 watt soldering iron. I imagine you are talking about the positive terminals, which are aluminum(or some metal that solder doesn't adhere to). These lipos, and I Imagine all Lipos, have a piece of nickel plated tin spot welded on the...

I just finished. It only took a week. Just needs heatshrink covering. These were two 10S 5000mAh packs and two 8S 3800mAh packs. All brand new. Now there are ten 2S 5000mAh packs and eight 2S 3800mAh packs, and a pile of Deans connectors. They could have been sweet FE packs, but now RC car...

Thanks jayt, Is it just me, or do people on intlwaters just make more sense? Eventually, I'll want an electric boat that's real fast, at non-race pond for now. If I can't get this boat screaming, I'll just fire up my 67 boat that has an 84 in it... lol

Great info jayt. I was under the impression up until about 10 days ago that leopards were Y-wind. I don't remember offshoreelectrics.com showing the wind type next to the kV rating, But they do now for sure. Also I thought I read on forums there or somewhere a statement simply saying "Leopards...

I finally got the radar pointed at this boat. 59mph. Motor is making some heat, and other message boards seem to indicate Neu motors are more efficient/less heat. Ive tried a few different props and the x450, just does the best. With even slighlty bigger props, amps go up and rpm and speed go...

motor is 1450kv on a 6S. Once I get my friend to see it in person, he will be able to tell me what strut or sponson adjustments should me made to get it running as free as possible. and then we are gonna figure out props after that. I know almost nothing about props

Thanks for checking out those graph results Hugh. To bring up th N/A values is a simple mouse click. The graph's x-axis is time, and it is the amount of time between the last time data was deleted to the last time it was turned off. but it is easy to zoom in on any area of the graph to fill the...

I just ordered some 8mm bullet connectors from my local HobbyTown USA. Here is a picture of the ICE240 and the extra 7000 microfarad capacitors and the existing Deans connector setup. The video below is a pain to watch because I was the driver and the cameraman, the cameraphone was taped to...

I ran the boat for a few minutes today with the Deans connectors, and the connectors only got slighty warm. I got some video, but I am having trouble getting it on youtube.

I appreciate the replies. Oops, I originally wrote "Castle Deans bullets"...It was supposed to say "Castle Creations bullets" If a pair of male/female Deans connector can deliver a continuous 60 amps without heating up, then the 4 pair that i have parralleled should handle a continuous 240...

The 6.5mm Castle Deans bullet connectors were getting hot between my Flightpower 6S 5000mah battery and the castle ICE 240 controlling a Leopard 4082 1450kV motor. So I'm gonna give Deans a try, I'm quadrupling up though. And now it will be ALL 8 gauge wire. The FlightPower battery had 12...

I know, it's an eyefull, but this is the data of a run with the x450 on a fully charged battery. RPM's are doubled because I'm using a 4 pole motor and logger is pre-set assuming a 2 pole. I purposefully let off the throttle significantly three times as to make a marker on the graph to help...

PWM is not user-adjustable and according to Castle Creations tech is 12,000. He also said the 10 degree is a good setting for this Leo motor. I ran it today(saturday), and I had a video camera and radar gun, but couldn't find anybody to point them at the boat. Runs went fine and I tried two...

I ran it for 2 minutes total without any problems(about 10 smallish laps). according to the data logger: it never went over 150 amps and the average amp draw at full song seems like 130 amps. Voltage never went below 20 volts, and the run consumed 3300mAh Immediately after the run ESC was...