Radio Ranger Rc Fishing Boat Modification

15 Nov

Turning the Radio Ranger Rc Fishing boat into a Rocket Rc Fishing Boat is not as complicated as it sounds. Buying your own parts for the modifications also gives you a better range of options you can put into your new rc fishing boat project.
One of the main features of the Radio Ranger as is right out of the box is how simple the electronics are compared to a $600 hobby rc boat like the Traxxas Spartan.
Unfortunately, there really isn’t a rc boat on the market size wise with hobby electronics under about $500.
What we’re going to show you below is a simple, and affordable way to get all the hobby upgrades for a fraction of the price of a hobby grade boat. Plus if you put your mind to it there are dozens of interesting new rc options you can build into your new mod.
First a little basics to know and then it is pretty easy to go from there building your ultimate Rc Fishing Machine.
The receiver (black box) in the boat, I call it the Brain of the boat, basically that’s what it does, it runs all the boat functions. When you move something on your transmitter it tells the receiver box to do something. The neat part about a hobby grade receiver box is there are different channels, I like to call them outlets, or plugs, to plug things in to. Depending on how many channels, (or plugs) your receiver box has will determine how many attachments or how many combinations of options you can install into your boat.
For instance, what are some of the options you might want for your Ultimate Rc Fishing Boat? Besides motors and steering, lets see. You can add lights, and its easy, today you can get an led strip of lights that just plug into your receiver box, no tricky wiring to it, just plugs into your receiver, same as the other options we’ll look at here.

Just plugs into your rc fishing boat receiver box

Just plugs into your rc fishing boat receiver box

These Lights are just a few of the many optional light configurations, there are also light strips to illuminate the whole boat. A simple option to light up your fishing boat without any modifications is simply buying those battery operated lights and putting it inside the hull of your boat. We’ve done that too, turns your Radio Ranger into a big Light Bulb. Now these lights and other lights are available on Ebay, or Aliexpress too for $2-$3 each.

 

 

Moving on, how about a Grabber attachment?

 

 

2x 3900kv watercooled brushless inrunner motors

Thunder Tiger 1/14 Kaiser XS M-39 BRUSHED MOTOR & BULLET CONNECTORS 390 Sizemotors
2x 50a Hobby King watercooled waterproof ESC’s

esc
2x 11.1v 3000mah 30c lipo’s

battery
Flysky 2.4G transmitter and receiver
2x water pickups on the bottom
Dual water outlet on side
20gm waterproof steering servo
2x 4mm flex drive shafts
2x adjustable aluminum strutsstrut
2x 38mm 2 bladed propsprops
70mm aluminum rudder with water pickup

rudder
LED drone light stripsimage10.JPGimage6image13.JPG

These are just a few of the possibilities for modifying your Radio Ranger Rc Boat. Later we’ll go into some of the science of how everything works together. You should be able to research Rc Boat Modifications on Youtube and learn the simple basics for your new boat. Another good place for researching rc boat modifications is some of the rc forums like RcGroups or RcUniverse, once you get on their site click on forums, then boats then electric boats, you can also enter modifications into the search bars.

5 Responses to “Radio Ranger Rc Fishing Boat Modification”

  1. kcm02@msn.com April 22, 2018 at 4:56 pm #

    Hi could you show me how you wired everything-Thanks

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    • rcfishingboat May 27, 2018 at 11:14 am #

      Its all pretty elementary, once you get the parts you need everything is plug and play. Since everything was upgraded, everything has a plug, which goes into the receiver box……

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  2. Gabrielle Finch May 26, 2018 at 5:15 am #

    Liked your article about RC Fishing Boat.

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  3. Cody Cook April 30, 2020 at 3:00 pm #

    My Radio Ranger is on the way, which I plan to basically gut and just use the hull. I have been reading up a bit on keeping twin engines and using a mixer to allow reversing the engines and such to avoid using a rudder. But I would like to see more about your engine/electronics combination and possibly some videos on how it planes our on the water and such!

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