R/C Naval Combat

Had a great time out at the pond today.  I'll be posting some pictures up sometime this week, theres 600+ to go through.  From skimming them, I'd say there's a lot of pretty good looking 'beauty shots', not so much great for battle shots, though there are a few. 

Phill, I may have some trouble with your request for pictures of the Mogador on the move as it looks like most of the time you were on the move was in battle when I wasn't taking pictures, but I do have some of it in the water with the big boys, a few of its floating super structure pieces and one long shot of it on the bottom.

A mixed day for me though the wrap up was encouraging.

On the plus side, the Mogodor had her combat debut.  I think I should complain about 13 units against two...  As Nick's picture showed, the result was wet but not because of battle damage but because she doesn't have enough battery and she got put under with prop wash.  I will be looking at moving to NiMH batteries.  I didn't go that way originally because I didn't have a charger that would charge them. That problem has been solved. Now I need some cells...

We had good attendance at this battle. It was great seeing Kelley back on the water after a couple of years.  It looks like the Inflexible has a new captain.  Let's hope this is a better pairing than Andrew had with the Westfalen...  I'm glad Dan had a chance to run the Suffren, we may entice him into the hobby.

I spent too much time messing with electrical issues (that were not electrical issues...) and at the end figured that I had blown three speed controlers ( a possible record for a single day .  Turns out that I was wrong.  The solid red light means that the rx isn't getting a signal.  In the case of the Tugboat, I managed to misalign the plug when I reassembled it so that it wasn't getting a signal from the rx.  When I saw this once I was putting boats away, I tried plugging it in properly and it booted correctly and is runing fine.  I tried the same thing with the Mutsu and no luck so I grabbed another rx and tried with it - again, it booted correctly and is working. I think the source of the problem is that there is a conector inside the radio box that allows me to disconnect and remove the RX.  I think I have screwed it up and there isn't enough wire to receive a signal if the connector isn't working.  This was a byproduct of the other work I just completed on the radio box.  So,  I don't need to start over with new ESC's though I am still interested in having spares!

Posted By Alex Schumer on 19 Apr 2010 10:22 AM
Bismarck is fine. She got a lot more damage than I though she did but came away victorious anyway. I figured out was is wrong with my side mount, it wasnt the poppet valve like I thought it was. The valve in my cannon that allows another BB to enter the chamber is getting stuck and is very slow to recoil and load a new BB. It is also not allowing maximum amount of air through the gun. I am going to try some WD40 if that doesnt work I may need to start looking for a new cannon.

The battle was great however. Im glad to see we had so many ship ready to go. I had a lot of fun.

Wait, there was damage we didn't see pondside?  How much?

If the piston in your cannon is sticking, you might try replacing the spring if its using one (or adding one if its not), that should drive it back.  You shouldn't need to get a whole new cannon.  If there's a lack of bore clearance in the pistons path that its binding on you should also be able to file it out a little more I'd think.

The most fearsome ship on the pond:

I think Phill will have alot of fun with this little ship once he gets the power issues sorted out.

Kelly's Nagato enjoying some time in the sun

Sea Trials are about to go from bad to much worse for the Westfalen.

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Thanks Nick for those photos. Andrew agrees with me that the Westfalen sinks very nicely. At least her float works properly.

Alex, if you have 7 units why not go with duel sidemounts and duel sterns?