ddmracing05

Anyone got a good Atermarket motor link for my SV27... its visiting 7 celled batteries this weekend and I plan on having a burnt motor sooner or later.

Also If anyone has a Transom Water pick up laying around and wants to sell it to me let me know.

j.m.

i think that motor works fine with 14 cells, and as for the water pickup, just use some brass or aluminum tubes.

ryan_t888

I would expect the ESC to go before the motor. The nitro transom pickup is less than $10.

Ryan

ddmracing05

what do I do for an esc then? I thought the stock ones held up to 8-14 cells?

SV27dayton

There are pleanty of people running 14 cells w/o any smoke. Just be careful with your prop choice. There's a great video out there of the boat running on 14 with the CF48. (no recomended) but the video is about 5 minutes and he's in it as much as he can w/o loosing control. He was using IB3600's. Lots of fun, but life expectancy would be low for ESC I would think.

SV27dayton

Here it is. I love this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZCMnNdhbU

DUSTINNEWTON

The motor works fine with 14 cells. I have run mine hundreds of times on 14's with everything from the stock prop up to a CF 51 with no problems whatsoever. I run a CF48 as my normal prop and as long as you have a degree or two on the trim tabs, it's as easy to control as the standard prop. I run 4400 7 cell packs, and 3000, 4200, and 4500 6 cell packs all day long.

Ryan was saying that IF/when something went out, it woould most likely be the ESC first, not that it WILL go out soon. Don't worry about replacement parts until you need them, just run it and have fun. if you break anything, it's easy to fix.

SV27dayton

Well said crusty. Good to hear your ESC is holding up to that CF48 so well. I've been running the CF45 regularly on12 cells. I've had alot of problmes getting my packs balanced and have killed some cells running big props. mostly x645. So that's been my week point (IB4200WC). Part of my problem is that i just dont run regularly enough to keep them peaked. I'm going to try to run at lunch time tomorrow so I'll go home and peak them tonight 1/C and then hit them with 4.2 amps for 12 minutes before leaving the office. Best I can do.

Diegoboy

If you want an improvement to the stock motor, Go with [link=http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXLWZ6&P=7]this one[/link].
Grimracer recommended it early in the SV thread. Everyone that has replaced their stock motor to this one had been pleased, including myself. A friend in Australia secretly bought one and installed it for a club race. He lapped one of his friends that used the stock motor.

ddmracing05

Well I ended up sinking my boat and im no longer getting the beep and only thing that works is my rudder Any tips and where does the beep come from anyway? cant find a speaker anywhere of anysort

ryan_t888

It's the motor that beeps. I would believe the motor could surrvive being submerged. Perhaps it is the ESC? No trim setting were changed that would arm the ESC incorrectly, right?

By the way, these boats do not sink

Ryan

UTAviolist

isn't the ESC waterproof?

ryan_t888

Yes

Ryan

ddmracing05

Well obviously it does with no cowling and no floatation inside. I finally stuck some stirofoam (spell?) in there.
Just beginners mistakes/luck

ryan_t888

These boats come stock with a big chunk of foam in the front. They don't sink.

Ryan

ddmracing05

mine is freaking emptey! ***?

ryan_t888

That's unusual, I've never heard of that before.

Ryan

Diegoboy

That's not enough foam to keep it afloat with 12 cells. If you're luck enough to also have an air bubble in the bow when it goes down, that helps that puny piece of foam keep the boat afloat. Otherwise it WILL sink.

Doubt it? Take your boat to the lake, Have it loaded with the batteries inside (or equal weight) Fill the hull with water, and tell me what happens.

ryan_t888

I've had my SV more than over weight with 14 cells, RX pack, GPS and it most definitely does NOT sink. It simply sits in the lake with the nose pointing out of the water. Been there done that. The foam placed in the nose is more than enough or else why would Aquacraft even bother?

If what you said was true I'd have a good 100 foot dive to make for both of my SV's.

Ryan

ddmracing05

... Thats because you do have that little air pocket up there other than that foam. I just happen to get it right where there is no air bubble and it goes down.

SV27dayton

As long as there isn't a hole in the nose I'd guess it wouldn't sink. Tail would drop and the nose would hold air. But I'd still keep the foam or something in there. You just never know. I put my gps in a zip lock bag with lots of air in it so even if it gets "thrown from the weckage" [&:]I'll likely be able to recover it.

ryan_t888

Nope, I can assure you there is enough foam. And didn't you just tell me you had no foam "mine is freaking emptey! ****? "?

Ryan

ddmracing05

It was in reply to Diegoboy.... he was saying it will still sink even with the foam it came with.

Diegoboy

Well??


I have no problems with being wrong. I'm just asking you to prove it's enough foam when there is no air bubble to support it.

ryan_t888

I have no problems being wrong as well, but I believe the few times It has been nose up on me is enough proof regardless of air bubble or not.

Ryan