RC Boat Ballast | Quick Tip | Motion RC

Just some options for adding ballast to your RC boat. There are many ways to do this, but this is just one way that has worked for us. Find all our RC boats here: www.motionrc.com/collections/...
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[@stratmaster5]

I have the 1/150 USS Missouri. It sits higher in the back. I put about 12 pounds close to the motors without touching them. It s good in the front half but sits high in the back

[@jackdavid7514]

For my Bancroft Fletcher Class Destroyer (U.S.S. Kidd) that I have converted to the U.S.S. Hoel DD-533, I used a combination of shot bags made with #6 birdshot that I already had on my bench and paste on tire weights. I used a 2 lb shot bag in the bow, 1 lb shot bag in the stern and a total of 3 lbs of tire weights in the mid hull. I have converted my destroyer to run on 2S 4.0 Lipos in parallel mounted on a battery tray that I installed in the mid hull, which accounts for an extra 12 ozs of of ballast down low to get the metacentric height correct. Destroyers tend to be tippy so getting the port/starboard balance is critical. I had to use about 14 ozs on the starboard side to get the list out. Now the boat is extremely stable at Flank Speed and she rights herself immediately in high speed turns!

[@MaxSupercars]

My solution: I go to local home depot store and buy steel plates of different sizes - widths and lengths (used mainly for wood beams connections or similar). I stack them then from the bottom of the ship model on each other and connect them with small pieces of double sided tape (Advantage: you can detach them then any time as you need). I use from 1-3 layers of steel plates depending from model and space. I always try to place on first most lower layer as many plates as I can - for lowerest CG as possible. It's also important to level the ship, so it's needed to place plates at the front or at the back depending where are they needed.

[@dutchloveRC]

that is KOOL

[@user-gl2eq2ly4g]

Now turn on the whirlpool and see if she stays afloat

[@manuelschiller4952]

why not using water ballast as the original one in seperate watertight bulkead tank commanded by pup and giroscopic sensor

[@MotionRC]

lol. Sounds a bit complicated for a model

[@randyreid3558]

it works

[@DronemanJoeRc]

what do you suggest to keep the bb's from rolling around in the bag and changing the weight?

[@MotionRC]

I personally just taped them down. But you can glue them in if you never plan to remove them. Since the ships in these videos aren't personally mine, I didn't do a permanent fix

[@williamdecker3989]

Better to order lead ingots from a gun store and glue them into place.

[@randyreid3558]

I use rolls of pennies in my destroyer

[@user-gl2eq2ly4g]

Why is there an American flag on the Titanic?

[@huntertalen5566]

please sell me some of your stuff