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[Ghost in the shell]

drop the shafts out and grease them :) failing that, play around with the trim ballance,  it may be too far to starboard.

[DickyD]

Had the same problem when I put my P94 in Alex, I had one lazy prop.

Greased the prop shafts and adjusted the little blue thingy and its fine now.

You will notice that my electrical training was done at the same evening classes you went to.

[Pointy]

Props well and truely greased but will read up on the bluethingy before I do anything drastic like touching it.

[malcolmfrary]

pointy, its just a turnytweekiethingie, a bit like the balance / fader on your stereo in your car

Its a small screwdriver and very gentle finger and thumb turnytweekiethingie.  I have seen such things brutally stabbed to death in the past by folks who thought it was a job for a road drill operator rather than a safecracker.  Just be gentle with it. 

[Shipmate60]

As Pointy has said the access in this model is Abysmal, I should have taken a pic but due to the restricted access and possible need for future maintenance it is certainly not one of the best wiring installations.
She was built for 1 ESC and a receiver, this would have allowed access, but the motors pull over 7 amps in AIR so she would need a highly rated ESC.

Bob

[Pointy]

Up to my second coat of matt ronseal, decks look better darker but shows up a crack in the deck veneer that runs from the end of the access coaming to the quaterdeck, must have happend when decks buckled on saturday

[Pointy]

"xxxxx"!

Got a paddling pool (took hours to inflate!) tested Sharnhorst. Got a problem in that the ship has three motors and three props, the inner one has a seperate speed controller and the outer two are controlled by the mixer. The starboard motor is wired up in reverse so prop is counter to the other two inorder for the model to go in a straight line? Anyway if I want to turn to starboard the mixer will cut out the port motor- the boat turns to starboard.....in reverse. If I go full starboard rudder the mixer makes the starboard motor go in reverse so I go backwards even quicker!!

What should I do?

[Peter Fitness]

it's just a turnytweekiethingie

Is that a technical term? 

Peter.

[Pointy]

Still no joy in getting sharnhorst to turn right and go forward. 

[Shipmate60]

Pointy.
Have you checked all the batteries are charged and the transmitter switched on before the receiver?

Bob

[Pointy]

This is not a matter of wrong diagrams or wrong wiring, I didn't acutally do the wiring myself because I would make a mess of it and did make a mess of it okay? But I have full and total faith in the person who very kindley spent a lot of time doing it for me. Nothing wrong with Action either, they have been brilliant.
The problem I think is this, the model has three motors driving three props. The starboard one must run counter to the other two so the model goes in a straight line. When making a foward turn to starboard the model goes in reverse as the mixer? stops the port motor working and will reverse it if the rudder goes hard over. I'm sure with the right combination of trim tweaking or mixing we will get it sorted.

[Martin (Admin)]

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