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Effect Of Tuning The Propeller Of An RC Boat

by rcboatc on July 7, 2011

If you have an RC car or any other radio-controlled device, you mostly understand that a lot of these devices are ordinarily customizable in such a way that it is such a fun reason of keeping them and believe it or not, as simple as the RC boat can be, you can also tune it in a way that it is possible to improve its overall performance when it rides on the water. The design of the hull usually determines how good would it be, on how it minimizes the drag of the water and since you usually don’t change it, the other only option is to play with the boat’s propeller because you can actually make the boat faster or slower or more stable just by changing a few things on it.

The propeller’s angle does have a dramatic effect on how the RC boat move thru the water, of course, aside from the fact that it all goes spin in order to push the boat forward, it can actually make the movement faster or slower. If you trimmed its angle higher, the most likely effect is that the front of the boat, or the nose, so to speak, would stay up on the water for most of the time and this reduce the drag because the hull was only partly on the water, and in total effect, the boat moves faster. Otherwise, if the angle was trimmed lower, the nose of the RC boat would often be on the water and this makes the boat goes slower.

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