Hi George and All, That is a lot of boat drag to either go fast or far. Just not a great choice for solar power. Next since it can only go max 5mph on E and few miles depending on your battery pack hard to justify it. And no need of expensive controllers, E cycle motors as 2 speeds would be fine. No detail on the prop, which needs to be as large as possible turning slow rpm for most eff. What kind of outboards, inboards, KWHR and what it does now on them in speed, range. Not likely to ever be more than a few mile range at low speed on electricity. But driven slow like 4mph with more panels, only 1.5hp of solar now. Answer these and we can go from there. Doing EV boats one needs to start with a sailboat, mono, cat or tri hulls with much lower drag. A real canal/narrowboat would be great. 'eCycle electric motors, super cap/battery amalgamations, advanced alkaline fuel cells, thin/flexible PV modules' These are needlessly expensive or just not viable at all. Jerry Dycus From: George McNeir via EV <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 9:06 PM Subject: [EVDL] EV Boat I have just joined and subscribe to EVDL with the idea that there are likeminded folks interested in large EV boat design and building. The MOG is not a commercial enterprise at this time but may be key to the creation of such. Everything designed and implemented over the past 25 years is described on the site given below and in the videos and blog that are also given below.
Primarily I ask for any dialog that would help in furthering the progress made to date. In effect, those with knowledge of the Navitas NPS600 motor controller, eCycle electric motors, super cap/battery amalgamations, advanced alkaline fuel cells, thin/flexible PV modules, internal grid power distribution DC networks and anything else that may be contemplated for such a craft is welcome. In its present form, the totally solar electric (drive and appliance) powered boat is very functional. Considerations in decreasing onboard use of power as well as better use of power now created and stored is paramount in continuing further development. To date, all of the boat design & build has been funded through my own personal funds as a hobby. Below are the background data to which I referred. Thank you in advance for your deliberation and comments. George VIDEOS Moving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI2nnN5892A&feature=youtu.be Beached https://youtu.be/h92dWykE_Xo Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRGKbayI2yI SITE http://www.mogcanalboat.com BLOG http://www.mognavy.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150426/2660f74b/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150427/402e48c4/attachment-0001.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
