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    • June 16, 2003 at 8:40 am #11526
      M_Coupe
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      My boss and I found these earlier in the week. I was wondering if anyone has actually seen these things and if they’re any good?

      http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3134620156&category=2564

    • June 16, 2003 at 5:21 pm #27250
      leonli17
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      Sweet. Just wonder where u can get them in Australia.

    • June 16, 2003 at 5:21 pm #27552
      leonli17
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      Sweet. Just wonder where u can get them in Australia.

    • June 16, 2003 at 5:31 pm #27251
      8ch Ess Vee
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      Count me in too!!

    • June 16, 2003 at 5:31 pm #27553
      8ch Ess Vee
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      Count me in too!!

    • June 16, 2003 at 6:34 pm #27255
      perriscope
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      dudes I already own two of them they are pretty good i wrote a little about them. In the water, sea, air section of this forum, check it out, sorry still don’t have digital camera. but in a couple of weeks I will ;o)

    • June 16, 2003 at 6:34 pm #27557
      perriscope
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      dudes I already own two of them they are pretty good i wrote a little about them. In the water, sea, air section of this forum, check it out, sorry still don’t have digital camera. but in a couple of weeks I will ;o)

    • June 22, 2003 at 10:40 am #26382
      Racer9
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      good just slow. Having a puchi maru and making it proportional with a rudder. Upgrade motor better designed hull and more cells. Just the usual. Redesigned as in single prop smoother hull more hydrodynamic and say a 3/4 in ch long prop with half-inch below a 3/4 inch tall boat? Use a perfection 4.2 for speed and a puchi servo for rudder control.

    • June 22, 2003 at 7:30 pm #26394
      perriscope
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      Racer,

      are you speaking from experience? I agree with more cells and larger prop mod (that is in the pipe line right now) and a rudder instead of dual motor for control steering would be faster round corners less drag on the striaght too, but as for using a servo, That’s not so easy, as you would need a new transmiter and thus if you replaced that then you may as well have a servo for motor control too there aint much room in the boats, I think sevo’s are out, I like the idea of having a rudder with digital proportional control like many have done for the char-g cars, this way it stays light and small.

      But I have to get my electronic knowledge up before I attempt proportional control working on building a charger with LM317 voltage regulator that I got for Dickies in a bat charger kit, at the moment, taking baby steps at a time :blush:

      I’ve only just got into this hobby . ..lol 😀

    • June 23, 2003 at 3:21 am #26341
      Racer9
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      Use a puchi maru. They have proportional controls.

    • June 23, 2003 at 7:33 pm #26287
      perriscope
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      ow I see now, :blush: I didn’t know what a puchi maru until I typed it into google. but the price i found them at was $100USD 😯

      I’m a cheapscate I’ve only ever bought BCG clones price range $5.50 to the $15.00 AUD. I am enjoying the modifications so I am contempt with building my own prop control one day (hopefully sooner than later). I feel as I am stud eng. the learning curve might come in handy one day career wise. 😀 an extra bonus for the extra time invested. rather spend big amounts of dough on kiteboarding/windsurfer/scuba/snowbarding/wakeboarding/4Wdrivin etc.

      Anyone else heard of the term S#%TLOAD SPORTS. I use it to refer to sports that require a S@#TLOAD of preperation before you can have some fun. and that definition just about fits every sport I have ever got into. 🙁 anyone else find themselves in the same trap?

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