Hello People,

In an attempt to try to improve the radio range, I did try running the receiver on around 9V. I built a converter to step up the 4.8V from 4 x 1.2V NiMH to around 9V. Only the receiver electronics were on 9V while the motors were still directly from the NiMHs.

There was no range improvement unfortunately, but the electronics were not damaged neither.

Regarding the Captain's over torque problem, may I suggest a propeller with less pitch? I put in a propeller with less pitch on my resurected "Yellow Submarine". The result is much less Torque roll with not a bad top speed.

Have a look at this video and let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nURJ8nkRfA

The Photo below shows the 2 different propellers, the one on the right is the original: