Hi everyone
Beautiful day for ballasting trials and to see if the model sails... there are storm clouds coming!!!
Dad and I laid the hull into the water and put in the four 12v 10amp/hr SLAs, topped up the water in the foggy units and proceeded with lead being placed in the hull to bring it to the light loaded water-line. Everything ok so far. 20lbs of batteries, and about another 11lbs of lead ballast.
I switched on the foggy units and a good head of fog built up, tx on and then rx, everything ok. A quick blip to ensure the rudders moved ok. A check to ensure that the motors still worked- ok, and in the right direction- ok. Now the angry point...
The motors are gutless, they look like car heater motors, are the same size and behave in every way like a car heater motor but they couldn't pull a skin off a rice pudding!
I adjusted the two ESC for speed and a little more power was gleaned from them but it was truly shocking performance. It took me ten minutes to get her back to the edge of the lake, the only good thing was the good amount of fog being produced from the funnels and the extremely stable hull. She sat there in the light swell like a true 17,000 ton battlecruiser!
No pictures: 1: I forgot and 2: it was incredibly embarrassing especially in front of a new club member!!!
So new plan- new car heater motors replacing the current motors, and fingers crossed next weekend the trials will begin again.