Hello all,
A few weeks ago I got new, much more powerful, geared motors in which now work as steering motors. These indeed are powerful enough so then came the test to see how well the controls would go with no rudder indicator to show what heading the thrusters are pointing at and speed control on the steering rather then an angle. I managed to do a total of 3 sea trials, the last one being a match where agility and control over the model are the key, speed is irrelevant. I had to quite halfway through my first heat since I couldn't get the model between any of the sets of bouys (each objective is made up of 2 bouys, 1m apart, leaving 70cm of room to play with for this model) but since both thrusters turned at different speeds I had now other option but to control each independently, making it very easy to lose track of the heading of each of the thrusters, often causing the model to sail backwards with throttle forward or the opposite. For this model I will solve this by going back to using servo's, giving up the 360 degrees rotation, but I've learned that I really need heading controlled steering which I originally had in mind anyways. That will be solved in the new hull though, since that will also have the thrusters placed better so there will not be different amounts of resistance in them.
Greetings Josse
A few weeks ago I got new, much more powerful, geared motors in which now work as steering motors. These indeed are powerful enough so then came the test to see how well the controls would go with no rudder indicator to show what heading the thrusters are pointing at and speed control on the steering rather then an angle. I managed to do a total of 3 sea trials, the last one being a match where agility and control over the model are the key, speed is irrelevant. I had to quite halfway through my first heat since I couldn't get the model between any of the sets of bouys (each objective is made up of 2 bouys, 1m apart, leaving 70cm of room to play with for this model) but since both thrusters turned at different speeds I had now other option but to control each independently, making it very easy to lose track of the heading of each of the thrusters, often causing the model to sail backwards with throttle forward or the opposite. For this model I will solve this by going back to using servo's, giving up the 360 degrees rotation, but I've learned that I really need heading controlled steering which I originally had in mind anyways. That will be solved in the new hull though, since that will also have the thrusters placed better so there will not be different amounts of resistance in them.
Greetings Josse
Statistics: Posted by Tweety777 — Thu Jul 31, 2025 6:27 pm