Not necessary. Generally you want to worry about puncture damage if using soft cell packs. So in addition to your standard internal armor maybe think about little wooden box or something to carry the battery in inside the boat, or double layered internal armor. You can ask all these guys here, the Dunkerque spent plenty of time under water, my LiPO's have been fine. Stab one though, then you'll be in for fun times.
Transport is the issue, imo. If the LiPo decide to go poof, in the boat, good pictures . In the car not so much fun. I keep them in a fire proof box, gives me time to get the box and car to the curb.
Solid point, I do the same I didn't even think to mention that. As an added bonus if one starts cooking off in the car you have something to throw at the guy tailgating you.
Yeah I keep all of my batteries in a safe container already, and they're just LiFe cells. the LiPo batteries I got for my pump are the hard shell ones for rock crawling cars, so they should be durable enough. If anything makes it past the armor layers I have inside that boat AND penetrates the hard shell to pierce one of the LiPo cells, it's going to cause problems regardless of battery chemistry.
Small update. I downgraded the forward (aux) pump's motor from a 2200kv outrunner to a 1400kv. This was mainly done because I was having serious issues fitting everything up front with the gun accumulators/solenoids/check valves hitting the pump regardless of positioning. The 1400kv is much shorter. Also figure that it'll add enough to the boat to help while still keeping me afloat past the "just sink already" point. I will play with it over the next few months and can always get a 1600~1800KV as an intermediate size if the 1400 lacks the balls. Also worked on filling in leaky spots, wire routing, and some other final touch up bits. Pics to come later.
It floats. Strangely, without any purposeful ballasting or trimming, it floats level on it's scale waterline @ max scale weight. Its weird. It's almost like it's a scale model of a much larger ship that would've floated level on it's waterline. Probably will add a bit of ballast to sink her down some more. I have 3lb to play with. Maybe I'll say screw it and add more batteries. Maybe I can get a kwh in there? Tune in next time to find out! PS: The B turret gun barrels are being re-done. I hate them. I don't need to hear about how stupid they look. I know.
You are the going expert on billboard rental space, what do you charge? I'm assuming there's a bonus if the boat sinks on it's own before battle starts, right?
I feel like this is the model boats equivalent of a Sun Tzu quote. The battle is won in the garage and test pond.
Hey wait a second, apparently a good majority of American ships don't need to leave port to get sunk either. Or British ships. Or italian. Or japanese... Wait now that I'm thinking about it, it seems like the Germans are really good at not getting sunk in port. Wait. I lied. Nope, they had it happen too.
which ship is that? Also, is this what you guys do while waiting for the ARCTIC HURRICANE COBRACHICKEN 9000 to strike? or am I the only one in the path?
