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Originally Posted by Greg Peshek
Well, our blade/s pull too much power to gear it up any. We start tripping a 40A breaker at a 1:2 ratio. The size of our prop combined with the really high pitch, and the fact that the blade is cut to give a lot of thrust in one direction.. gave us a pretty good acceleration to around the speed you're describing at 3/4 ratio.
Of course we're going for different things. You have them for turning and maneuvering plus a good amount of power. And we're going for sheer power, mainly for getting across in a straight line fast, pinning, and then dumping.
Tell you what, you make it to Atlanta for Championships, we'll have an Overdrive style race. 
-Greg |
You might want to reduce your pitch then. High pitches are made for high speeds, therefore you're being really ineffective and ideally you'd have about 1-2 pitch prop from max speeds of about 7-15 mph. Otherwise, even with our pitch of 3.75, we hit ideal speeds at about 30 mph.
And yes, prop race at Atlanta ;D