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Old 09-04-2007 | 04:10 PM
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My friend has a 5 foot long rc boat. It has a balsa V shaped hull and is about 2.5-3ft wide. It is heavy. It has 2 gell cells powering many really bright lights and led's It has a very nice solar panal onboard to charge the boat just to give that extra battery time. It has "super bright led's" under the water line to light up the water underneath it along with a floodlight that produces 230 lumens (these aren't all of the lights/led's). It also has an onboard camera with live footage viewable from a tv. Once again I reinterate It is a rather heavy boat.

The only thing It doesn't have is motors.

Does any one have advice?

He would rather have many cheap (but still good motors) have the strength of 1 strong and expensive motors.

(Brushed or brushless doesn't matter)

He isn't expecting It to reach crazy fast speeds but he wants to have fun cruising around so any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks for all your inpute
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Old 09-04-2007 | 05:25 PM
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I would say that about 4 of these Graupner 820bb's would do it. If you are just looking to push it along then 2 of them might do it. You could email Steve at that site I just gave you and he will know.
Old 09-04-2007 | 05:33 PM
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Okay thank you I'll let him know. I'm sure two will be fine. I forgot to menshine 150 dollars or less for anyone with other suggestions.

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Old 09-04-2007 | 06:18 PM
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Where can you get big Graupner motors?

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Old 09-04-2007 | 07:22 PM
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Sorry, I forgot the link.

http://www.offshoreelectrics.com/pro...?prod=grp-6375
Old 09-04-2007 | 08:51 PM
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i think 4 would be over doing it. maybe im wrong but o well. i think two of the graupner 820 z drives would look really scale and would be sweet.

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