Rudderless boat and ESC's?????

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you may also have found that if the rudder was hard over it jammed the servo (especially if older and second hand) , the servo as you probably know contains a tiny motor and gears, you may have been forcing the motor and geears to remain jammed (it would have been under motor stall conditions)

this could have drained the 4 x AA battery pack quickly or actually forced the servo to ' lock up' , by releasing the power by reomving the lpug things then ' free up' and everything is normal again,

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Time to update this thread a little...

Well ive now stripped the ripmax boat after having quite a bit of fun with it, got it to a good 25mph+ on the 9.6v bat with a 22T motor and 2 bladed prop.

The new boat im informed will be quicker as it has 2X motors powering 2X two bladed surface skimmer props. I have added a rudder with bearing just behind them so i will give this ago. Although after my research i noticed all powerboats had their rudders behind the props...ops live and learn.

The other thing im looking into at the moment is the fact the motors are crappy little 380's which dont run too smoothly, let alone with the 7 celled bats so im thinking some nice 540s or 600s would be good.

Alas, as everyone said the two bladed props dont half drain the batteries, can anybody remmbered some good sites to order single cells from as i prefer to solder my own up rather than pay a premuium for ready made?

As i keep promising i will get some pics up shortly, just been very busy at the moment!