Its personal preference for the type of connectors you use, Deans or Anderson PowerPoles are the most common. I've used both, they both have strengths and weaknesses, actually there is a thread around here somewhere where we have a discussion comparing them. Changeing connectors isnt a big deal, but it might void a warranty on your charger if you care about such things. lookie what I found http://rcnavalcombat.com/Forum/tabi...fault.aspx
Cool. I put the Deans on there and finished both packs. I also installed the barbettes and tripod mast, and installed the motor wiring. (I love weekends) Is it alright to just wire the TD boards into the power supply parallel before the ESC? (so that the battery powers the ESC and TD boards directly) Or will this cause them to explode...
Here are the internals at the stern, and you can see the battery packs in front of the pump. Nothing is really hooked up now, until I can figure out how the wiring should work. Here is the deck so far, with the deck and superstructure in different stages of bein sealed. The barbettes are glued in, but the turetts are just sitting on top. (sorry its sideways, I couldn't figure out how to turn it.) Here is the cmpleted deck assembly so far.
Dave, looking great! Esc and delta boards can be wired to the same battery, make sure the battery voltage is correct to the boards. If your batteries put out more than 5 v fully charged, drop the voltage with a diode/diodes in series to the battery for the boards. There is directions on the boards sheet (I think) that tells you how. One more thing, guns and gun magazines should be "roughed in" as this may change where your electrical components / wires will go. You don't want to fight with a magazine that gets caught on a stupid wire all the time. ( don't ask how many years I did that )
Grey Wolf Sqdn casts a really nice set of them from foam, I've seen them up close at Brian's... BC sells them also (get the same part from either)... I'm going to get Brian to help me with the Evstafi funnels.
I just made the funnels out of sch. 20 PVC and glued on pieces of wire for detail. Those foam funnels look nice, I saw some at Nats, but PVC was just easier to get The batteries are D cells, each pack is 6v, 10Ah. I'll probably wire them in parallel for 20 Ah to the whole ship. As soon as my next paycheck comes in, I should be able to afford the cannon...
Looking very nice What are your thoughts on cannon placement? The midship turret looks ripe for a sidemount to me, but I'm not sure how high it sits to get down angle. I've very much enjouyed the all-sterns-haymaker layout on Fuso.
I was thinking twin sterns and a stern sidemount, with another forward. I like the idea of twin stern sidemounts, but then I would have to guns with no particular place to put them... (I'm less than 720') I'm also not sure how much barrel depression I can get on the aftermost turret, I know I can't get much on Q turret. We you the one that sank that NC at Nats?
Well I dont know if I sank an NC, I certainly shot at them a lot. You'd stil retain the dual sterns and have one sidemount in 'Y' turret and the other in 'Q' turret. You probably wouldn't get much down angle on that gun, probably just enough to clear the deck, but it would make you a very difficult ship to attack. Just my thoughts though, didn't know if you'd thought about it. It might play havoc with where you have internals though with having that midship space broken up by a gun magazine.
If I intend to use TD boards and solenoids to fire my guns, would it be cheaper to buy the cannon separately from BC, or buy the cannon kit? It looks like the kit comes with a bunch of poppet valves and fittings I wouldn't need with solenoids. (the cost of separate cannon is much less)
It looks like you answered your own question, no point in paying for a bunch of parts you arent going to use. Just buy the cannons and then you can get whatever else you need in terms of hose and fittings and save some money over the kit. (which you can then proceed to spend on solenoids and boards)
If I arm Q turret, I think it will be better to use a straight magazine and angle it 90 degrees from the barrel, pointing up towards the bow. This would save vertical room in the hull, so that my batteries have more space. Is it possible to rotate the barrel like this?
Yes, the BC cannons have a pressure fitting between the 'T' and the uptake tube to the breech that allows the upper portion of the cannon to be rotated to any desired angle, just make sure you tighten the pressure fitting nut back down to make a good seal.
Okay, I got the cannon and rudder gears on Friday, it all looks good. Are you supposed to cut the vertical piece of copper tube that runs from the magazine to the breach? Mine is too long to fit into the hull!
Keep it as low to the bottom of the ship as you can. You want the bb's to roll down the magazines into the interupter tee.
Yes you definately want the BBs to feed mostly by gravity. Are all the cannons you got straight magazine type? Or are there a couple of coil-mags thrown in there? The coils are all looped and inclided so as long as you mount them more or less straight up and down, they feed pretty well on their own.
