damowom Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 I have just received a Joysways Sea Drifter and its works fine out of the water and runs great, but as soon as I place in the water it stops , if Pull the controller trigger it works in bursts only not all the time like it should and do out of the water? the person I got it off has a plane ESC on it but said it was working fine as tested in and out of water before packing up. Transmitter and received I am using is from another boat I have and know its works. any help on this would be grateful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turok007 Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 6 minutes ago, damowom said: I have just received a Joysways Sea Drifter and its works fine out of the water and runs great, but as soon as I place in the water it stops , if Pull the controller trigger it works in bursts only not all the time like it should and do out of the water? the person I got it off has a plane ESC on it but said it was working fine as tested in and out of water before packing up. Transmitter and received I am using is from another boat I have and know its works. any help on this would be grateful can you get it to run slow in the water without cutting out also is your battery ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damowom Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 Yes if I pull the trigger slowly it will run to a point and stop every time, but if out of the water it will run when i pull the trigger all the way quickly or slowly. battery was fully charged and works fine on the other boat I used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turok007 Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, damowom said: Yes if I pull the trigger slowly it will run to a point and stop every time, but if out of the water it will run when i pull the trigger all the way quickly or slowly. battery was fully charged and works fine on the other boat I used. well it is either the battery motor or ESC if it was working like the seller says then it is your battery but i would say to ESC could be under powered do you know what motor it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damowom Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 B2445 Water Cooled Brushless Motor if this is any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turok007 Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 you could try cleaning the motor/esc plugs as that sometimes solves a issue like your having. otherwise look at esc settings for lipo cutoff see if it can be turned off then try again as lipo might not be good enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damowom Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 battery using are lipo 11.1V 2200mah 25c which work fine on my Claymore 50 and guessing looking they should be fine for this boat as well. not sure how to do setting on the esc ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turok007 Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 36 minutes ago, damowom said: battery using are lipo 11.1V 2200mah 25c which work fine on my Claymore 50 and guessing looking they should be fine for this boat as well. not sure how to do setting on the esc ? Look online for esc settings if that fails then contact the seller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshireman Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Personally I would say 25c would be too low for this boat. I would think more like 35c at least...possibly more. Zeee do some 50c 2200 3s for a reasonable price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitroholic Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Your system would appear to be basically OK ...but failing under any kind of load. Can happen for a number of reasons..... 1) When you power up the ESC ... it should beep to tell you the voltage it's set up to. So for 3S .... it should beep 3 times. Or flash 3 times...or give you some form of signal to tell you it's voltage setting. If the thing is detecting wrongly, and thinks your running 4S not 3....then the slightest voltage drop could trigger the low voltage cutoff. The old Hobbywing Xerun ESCs were bad at autodetecting odd cell packs, and I would have t o manually set it for 5S running. Autodetect would think I was on 6S, and cut the power immediately. 2) You got physical electrical connections not making properly, resutling in a voltage problem. Clean and check them all. 3) When you say it stops when you put it in the water....does the motor still spin? Problems with prop and driveshafts can work under no load...then slip when the prop has to do some work. could also be the battery pack not coping with the load. You say it runs well in another vehicle.....but what vehicle is that. It may be a lot less stressful for the battery pack. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damowom Posted August 28, 2021 Author Share Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) Thanks battery is a 3s 2200 35c I was using on this , so maybe have to go higher. Other boat is a claymore 50 It did peep 6 times on turn on as just tried it. Using a turbo racing transmitter and matching receiver . Edited August 28, 2021 by damowom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitroholic Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 If you can find any manual or similar for hte ESC...I would check that. 6 beeps makes it sound like the thing has been set to a 6S battery..... but I don;t know the ESC you have, so could be wrong. But that would explain why it cuts as soon as you load it, as the thing will be assuming your battery voltage is too low, and hitting LVC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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