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continued). to make the boat go fast. or what can i do to make the boat go fast. here is what my boat is running on right now. Leopard Motor SeaKing 180a ESC Extra trim tabs Trim tab adjusters on all 4 tabs Dual cooling, extended rudder Hatch foam Balanced and polished prop Larger, dual cooling lines Three water bypass fittings Dual water inlet fittings 2 venom 5000mah 25c batteries 11.1v
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(continued) batteries. After reading some online forums and talking with maxamps they told me to get a smaller prop because the prop I had on was drawing to much amperage from the batteries. I got a new max amps battery (same type) and with the new prop it did the same thing. So i changed the battery connectors to a parallel system. This fixed the puffing problem but it no longer goes fast (used to go 50-60mph, now goes 30 mph). My question is what engine and or speed control can i switch to
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Hey Justin, I currently have a traxxas spartan but have recently run into some problems. I had a hobby town friend upgrade a lot of the things like motor, water cool, speed control etc (see complete list below). The problem is that I was running the boat on two MaxAmps 11.1v 6500, 150c batteries and one of the batteries puff. I figured out that the engine and speed control are so powerful that it pulls more volts from one battery more than the other eventually overheating only one of the
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wow cool :)
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Bought the boat in the UK. then swapped out the motors and a few other things.
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Thanks!!
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those were 40mm CF props
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prop sizes ? I have a twin Cat with x450/3 counter-rotating props.
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Where did you get that boat? Are the motors counter rotating?
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@chris81983 No they are not
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Are these stock motors
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Nice FE JPRIAMI!!! I Loved the other on board vid on OSE also!
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@1b1enjamin thanks, I can make it go a little faster if put a different set of props on her. Im just ok with where its at now. I hear the hull starts to break up if you get closer to 70
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Managed to jump off the water two times today with the cat. First time it landed perfect and I was able to keep going. The second time I got some good hang time but I had to send the rescue boat and rig to go get it because it was upside down.