Sun Apr 18 - Coal Creek Battle

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&#160. 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!

 

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.

 

hmm. well when I built her she was a class 6 with 6.5 units. That is one option. Another would be to swap one of the other cannons for a 75 rnd cannon and stick with 4 cannons. Or I could give you a break and do nothing. I dont mean to toot my own horn but she is pretty deadly as she sits right now. I dont mind keeping her at 6.5 units, another .5 unit to me is not worth the effort of switching out a cannon or a pump. But if you REALLY want me to well then I must.

 

OH!! I got it!! How about taking the 75 rnd gun out and putting in dual sterns? The more I think about it the more that sounds really nice.

 

Phill,

I have decided to put another cannon on the Bis. I was wondering what you were charging for those cannons you showed me a couple months ago. I really liked the design of those.

 

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?