For some reasons, the link didn’t work and you posted twice in the current thread.
You can try again with this one: 'Erayfoil Remote: Unboxing and Review
I’ve had good range results with the flipsky vx3 remote with the boogie. When on foil and on a wave range seems to be about 100m. When off foil and swimming back to the boogie (remote close to the water) range seems about 30 meters.
Sounds like a mismatched/ poor antenna design where it allows good receiving, but bad transmitting. You could open it up to ensure the antenna is properly connected?
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Hej Jesper!
I have also built a tow boogie and I am using the Maytech remote and experience similar problems as you. Did you solve yours?
My signal with erayfoil remote is also weak so this might be a general problem for this remote.
Three reasons: I have a friend who weighs 100+ kg, I have an 8-liter board) and when using two motors spaced apart on the sides, the board does not turn as readily as I would like. If not for the first two reasons, two 6384 motors would be quite enough for me. Unfortunately, I can’t give data yet, as a result of a loosely closed lid, water got into the box and both Makerbase 75200 controllers no longer work, red and blue diodes are lit on one and there is a FAULT_CODE_UNDER_VOLTAGE error, the second incorrectly passes the detection procedure. Now I use old BDLC controllers.
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Looking good. Did you find that two 6384s wasn’t enough power to take off? 2 hours run time is solid, what’s your cruise power consumption in wh/km? I would get tired of maintaining bearings on an outrunner with saltwater use, but I guess lots of foil assist users are doing it.
That’s unique! - I tried a similar thing to test an extreme forward 65161 motor position. I rotated the mast plate 180° and revered direction in the vesc too. Worked ok, but the lack of a nose cone on the prop caused weird cavitation issues.
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Thank you. I also had cavitation, especially at high speeds. Today I replaced the propellers with Bambu PLA printed props, the plastic is slightly stronger than normal PLA and the cavitation is much less.
I don’t get how the boogies are steered really? The fins maintain straight tracking - i guess, but turns, how are they initiated and kept?
You turn the tow boogie by pulling either left or right on the rope. E.g you turn left, the boogie will start turning right and once the turn is initiated you simply just turn and follow the boogie. It works surprisingly well and I’ve never felt the need for any other type of steering.
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hey @Jatem I’m going to a flat boogie board on my existing TOW. I like that you’ve managed to improve the CG why using the mast to attach the motor directly with that 90° part.
I’m using active cooling and wondering if you can modify your existing part to allow a 6mm inlet tube in the nose cone… which will go into the mast ? that would be amazing and a direct fit for my upcoming modified build
Thanks
@Jatem I was revisiting this post and noticed the T7 boogie. Are you NZ based? I’m just getting started on my first Boogie, based in Christchurch.
Hey all pretty cool thread. Im thinking ove buying one of these Flipsky Waterproof Brushless Motor 7070 4300W Waterproof Underwater Th – FLIPSKY
Thought it could work to make a system to be used as a tow boggie but also on my inflatable sup .
I have a spare 8ah 52v battery from a ebike build.
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what sort of rough range / towing time would i get from this battery … ballpark. Is there a callculation?
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I have a kite foil (naish thrust) with a large front wing (1236cm2) quite floaty kitefoil board 5"6 x 20" x 2.1". Happyly foiled behind a 15hp boat on it. Im 90kg. Would the tow boogie be able to pull me up on this setup? Or could i start on my knees ? I know a wingfoil setup better idea but this is what i have. Id like to make it work. Appreciate your insight.
The battery is a bit small at only 416Wh, and more than likely won’t support the high current for take off.
On a big pump foil I can sip along at 1200W but on a Normal foil I consume around 1800W going slow.
So with 416Wh available you will likely only get 15 mins.
For reference the Foildrive max battery is a bit over 500Wh. The Boogie battery I use is 3000Wh.
Motor should work well for bigger boards, but you won’t be able to deep water start it.
Thanks heaps. This battery has high draw cells so can pull 30a continuously and 40 burst (maybe 50 … I ran it on a 1500w ebike motor with no problems) . So maybe good to test the setup for now? … i do also have a 14ah 52v i could use in the setup instead later… just need to buy another cradle to be able to switch from the bike to the boggie setup in the waterproof case.
3000wh what voltage ?
It’s a 14S12P battery with 5000mAh cells. A beast!
58.8V fully charged and 60Ah
Yeah indeed that is a beast! So you getting about 1.5 hours (1.67 on paper) of usage roughly out of that? So thinking between my 2 batteries I could get about 30 minutes (38 minutes on paper) in total based on your 1800w suggested draw. I would think a 3000wh battery is what I would need to make in order to get a good session out of it after testing with current battery setup.