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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #400 on: June 20, 2022, 09:34:48 pm »

Hi Ray my alarms stay in the boat and the balance lead plugged to it while in use


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #401 on: June 20, 2022, 09:42:01 pm »

Hiya Joe, that sounds sensible and that's what I'll do. Probably just use velcro in case I need to swop from one model to another.


Thanks for your help yet again mate  :-))


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #402 on: June 20, 2022, 10:27:12 pm »

Don’t leave the alarms connected when you’re not using the battery…..they are a load which will continue to draw a current until the battery is completely flat…..guess how I know?
Fortunately the battery with some slow balance charging did recover..




Do the speed controllers you’re using for your boat have a Lipo low voltage cut off ? a lot of modern ones do..

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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #403 on: June 20, 2022, 11:11:04 pm »

Don’t leave the alarms connected when you’re not using the battery…..they are a load which will continue to draw a current until the battery is completely flat…..guess how I know?
Fortunately the battery with some slow balance charging did recover..




Do the speed controllers you’re using for your boat have a Lipo low voltage cut off ? a lot of modern ones do..




There's a lot of perfectly valid points being made on here - and that's another one Grasshopper, so thanks once again.


Ref the ESC: I've only ever used the marine vipers - usually the 20 amp version. I can't recall any info about low voltage cut off on mine.


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #404 on: June 21, 2022, 09:06:27 am »

Hi Ray  I've got Mtronics Vipers ESC's in most of my boats they work fine with Lipo's, it's easy to get bogged down with overthinking these Lipo's for me it comes down to two things 1 don't run the lipo too low hence the alarm in the boat and 2 when you get home remember to put lipo into storage IF you don't intend using it for some time, do this and you will be fine, and trust me you will hear the alarm if it goes off, personally I've never run the boat long enough for the alarm to activate I give up before the lipo does.


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #405 on: June 21, 2022, 09:11:35 am »

That's sound advice Joe and I will take it on board. Thank you once again and I'm now feeling a lot more confident about it all- cheers!


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #406 on: August 19, 2022, 10:35:33 pm »

Finally...managed to get around to sorting out the change over to LiPo, now just waiting for a chance to get her down to the lake (assuming the lake is clear enough of the weed) and hopefully get some proper footage :-)

Just 2 pics of the electrics for now...out with the old and in with the new. Also, I've incorporated the low level alarm which, in this case, is an in-line version, courtesy of The Component Shop.

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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #407 on: August 23, 2022, 08:29:38 pm »

Charged both Lipo batteries last night, ready for today - off to the lake - arrived to find the lake still weed bound  >>:-(


Oh well, back home for more D-I-Y tasks  >:-o


Currently putting batteries back in storage charge for another week.


We'll see what happens on the next visit  :(( ...


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #408 on: August 23, 2022, 09:08:27 pm »

ho the dreaded weed, >>:-(   probably the only thing that still grows in a heat wave  :((


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #409 on: August 23, 2022, 09:14:51 pm »

Yeah that's right Joe. We had the weed cut down in the spring but it just seems to have invigorated its growth!


Won't be surprised if it dies back when it gets too cold /wet /windy to sail.


Aye, we can only hope for some sailing days once summer is over  :-X


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #410 on: August 23, 2022, 09:26:38 pm »

Evening Ray
That's frustrating to get to the lake and find the weed...  I haven't been to the lake here for a few weeks, its probably in the same condition.
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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #411 on: October 12, 2022, 04:20:49 pm »

Hello All, managed to get the boat on the water yesterday AND got a few minutes of footage as well!

As will be seen, I had trouble dealing with the dual task of running the boat and the camera -  however, it's better than nowt :embarrassed:

... just hope it will upload without too much trouble.

Here we go then...
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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #412 on: October 12, 2022, 04:23:44 pm »

Well, that didn't work so...how do other users transfer their videos ?
The videos are on my laptop and run ok in Windows Quicktime

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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #413 on: October 12, 2022, 04:38:24 pm »

Hi Ray


If you have a Google account, you can use YouTube, that's what I do and it's free.  Just takes a bit of getting your head around if you're not used to it...


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #414 on: October 12, 2022, 04:51:07 pm »

Ah, ok thanks for the info David, I'll give that a try.
Cheers  :-))


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #415 on: October 12, 2022, 05:40:31 pm »

OK, then it's a case of pasting the link in here using the 'Insert Hyperlink' button.

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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #416 on: October 12, 2022, 06:16:18 pm »

Righto, here we go with another attempt...


http://https://youtu.be/_LZR5vH6ifA


with very many thanks to DJW :-))
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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #417 on: October 12, 2022, 06:30:10 pm »

WhooHoo! it works. David, you're a star O0


Well, that attempt was with the LiPo 3s 3300 and I've got a second one to upload with the 5000 installed - I'll do that shortly...


There wasn't much difference between the 2 batteries really and I had to cut it short due to weed wrapped around the props. I did get the boat back to our landing stage without any issues though... :-))


Back soon...


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #418 on: October 12, 2022, 06:43:21 pm »

...and so, here's the other video  :embarrassed:


https://youtu.be/v2VPs0uoZiA




Enjoy....


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #419 on: October 12, 2022, 07:18:22 pm »

Looking great on the water Ray..!


Pleased YouTube is working for you.





The 5000mAh lipos should just offer a better run time I think. Depending on how hot motors and escs are getting and only based on the sound on the video I think she'd take larger props.


Great to see her in action.
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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #420 on: October 12, 2022, 07:35:59 pm »

Thank you for your kind comments and I hadn't thought of bigger props. I'll have a look into that for sure. Cheers David  :-)


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #421 on: October 12, 2022, 09:30:21 pm »

 Glad you managed to upload the video. Looks and sounds great.  :-))
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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #422 on: October 12, 2022, 09:52:13 pm »

Hiya Stuw and thanks for your kind comments - always appreciated.


Yeah, she's not bad considering she's running on 2 x 540 brushed motors %%


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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #423 on: October 14, 2022, 04:12:20 pm »

Wow what a great video  :-))   Lovely job Ray  - I've always liked Huntsman's as they look so stable on the water.

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Re: Another Huntsman rebuild
« Reply #424 on: October 14, 2022, 04:35:01 pm »

Aye you're right there Mark, she's a great boat to control - now I need to work on my camera, watching the screen means I'm not fully aware of exactly where the boat is in relation to other people's boats and, of course, the edges of the lake  :o .


Anyway, thanks for looking in mate  :-))


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