After spending numerous hours/days on this project and after some Winter sun decided to finish the job which just needed a battery carrier, a lock mechanism for the same and a suitable Lipo of which I thought I had quite few to choose from. Before jetting off last month I tested the motor power no four and then 5 cells. Five would be ideal and the weight of the lipo would balance the model nicely.
However, after making the battery carrier which has available length of 125mm for a lipo and a locking bracket it was time to pick one of my 5 cell lipos. Just a few minutes ago I have just come to the conclusion that I am flogging a dead horse here with this electric conversion. There no batteries of reasonable capacity and cell count that will fit in a 125mm space. After minutes of head scratching I have realised that all my previous time of constructing a motor box, etc has been wasted. I therefore have no other options left and am planning now on fitting an OS46 oiler and tank.
The only thing that does work well is the bomb bay module so that is an "upside"
Seriously considering transferring this post to "Stories of Stupidity" Or put two conblocs into my back pack and see if I can swim across Hamworthy Bay (Yes, when the tide is in) tonight wearing only a pair of Speedos with my WMAC member card tucked into the waist band for identification purposes .