That's because when you pull the trigger on a blacktip you're never sure if its going to randomly quit today lolI have a black tip, The gavin is probably faster and more reliable....
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That's because when you pull the trigger on a blacktip you're never sure if its going to randomly quit today lolI have a black tip, The gavin is probably faster and more reliable....
it's not worth putting $2000 usd worth of lithium batteries in.
a 42ah SLA is about $125 usd80ah 24v batteries cost 850can$
Or if its even going to go... Or stop working after 20min...That's because when you pull the trigger on a blacktip you're never sure if its going to randomly quit today lol
The SS were/are the end of the evolutionary line from Tekna --> Mako --> Gavin --> SSI always thought the gavins and SS scooters were the same or close enough not to matter, I guess the SS ones fixed a majority of the issues with the gavins, my bad.
On the Gavins the prop hub is about 3mm recessed from the shroud. If you set it on the tail and there's any kind of hump in the center you can bump that hub and it will leak. The massive weight of course doesn't help that issue. The DiveX Sierra and Cuda use the same shaft seal, but are so much lighter and the motor rotator mounting so improved that you don't have that weakness that the Gavin's have/had by and large. The Suex, Genesis, Seacraft and many others have moved on from that carbon-ceramic seal and engineered out the hub bump leak issues.Shaft seal issues? As far as I can tell, most scooters still use a pac-seal 21, just in various sizes?