Testing 12 Ultra Efficient Electric Boat Propellers
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Published 2024-06-13
Episode 1: • Testing 8 Innovative New Boat Propell...
Prop test competition intro: • RCTESTFLIGHT Propeller Design Competi...
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All Comments (21)
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The only reason I don't submit a propeller that would absolutely humiliate all other entries is that I don't understand propellers, have no knowledge of fluid dynamics, have a beginner-level capacity on modelling and don't know enough maths to learn it all in a short period. Thinking again, that's 5 reasons.
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This is MajorHardware's PC fan competition but for RC hobby nerds, love it
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wow before this kind of competitions could only be found in academic conferences targeting a very nuanced audience, now we see a paradigm shift where youtube provides a platform where audience can be anyone and on top of that delivers the message much more efficiently.
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the Race to Alaska just started yesterday. It might be something interesting for you to do next year, designing a droneship that can make it the whole way
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Love this! Small thing, the new graph is really useful but the colors of each prop change each time you showed it which made it hard to compare props.
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Spanmaxxing has got to be one of the most aesthetically pleasing propellers I've ever seen
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Spanmaxing was tight ❤
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After consuming so much trash media, i look so forward to awesome meaningful videos like this. Keep it up you are saving minds every where
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"that looks about right" sounds about right to me!
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Holy camera quality!
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Excited for the variable pitch prop we got a quick glimpse of @23:49 !
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This is just the right ratio of video and pretty graphs. That editing balancing act is as impressive as the props. Well done Daniel!
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Congrats to Spanmaxxing for current first place! Very neat project.
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For a better view, a table at the end of the video with the propellers with the best performance would be nice. Thanks for the video. Very good.
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Man, I am absolutely loving this series. Thanks for putting it on and spending so much time on it!
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All props to you bud, this stuff is beyond me / over my head. Been watching your videos for years your parents must be proud, decent kid curious how things work and then try make them better while enjoying life. Keep the projects coming I will get my head around it some day, heck I don't have a 3D printer or do CAD but you have a gut feel what will work. Amazing designs keep them coming.
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Some of the names for these props are amazing. Forever alone takes a special top spot for me.
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Great video, as always! I just want to say that your brand integration is the best out there. You made meaningful plugs for several companies and they were all appropriate and didn’t feel forced at all. I hope it’s beneficial for both parties, and I hope it results in more amazing content in the future.
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Prop till you drop!
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Being really busy and having hardware issues I was pleasantly suprised that you actually tested it even though I was really late I'm really sorry about that. I couldn't give it proper cfd analysis so I had to go with "trust me bro" airfoils so the fact it was even close to baseline is amazing, thank you for detailed analysis and I'll try to make a better version and see if it can make a comeback. Let the best propeller win ^^
