Pat,
I'm not asking for a bolt on unit that will charge my batteries for nothing. There are lots of backyard inventors that can cobble together a POC model. Check out this site about seawater batteries, the POC is made from an ice cube tray, screws, pencil lead, copper wire and a piece of wood. It doesn't make much electricity, (just a few mA) but it does prove the concept.
http://www.creative-science.org.uk/sea1.html
Think small, and make models out of whatever you've got at hand. Give your keel "waterfall" design a try. Exaggerate the conditions and see what happens. Or another one of your ideas. An inventor has to experiment, just to try to connect the theoretical with the practical. Go for it!
You never know, you might be onto something...
Fair winds,
Eric
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Ron" <rlgravel@...> wrote:
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> Eric,
> In all honesty this has been a long, slow evolving process. I have acquired much of what I think can be used, but as a results of almost working out of the dumpster and buying some things because the price was right, my assembly requires a tandem axle trailer and I would be afraid to set a propane tank anywhere close to it.
> Doing things in a proper and professional manor will require the services of engineering professionals and machine shop services that are beyond my reach. I think you will find very few successful inventors from the backyard so to speak, that have produced a mechanical design prototype with only a very low budget, which is a fact that has been hard for me to learn.
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> As I said before, my enthusiasm is low but not because of doubts in what performance will come from this machine.
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> I believe my understanding of horsepower related to air flow and pressures, along with electric motor values of volts, amps and watts and then design sizes of A/C and heat pumps and their required power needs has given a general good guess about what is needed, but then when the time comes to put good money on the counter to pay for high dollar items that might not be exactly the right size or pressure quality, I have had to draw a line and keep building in my mind.
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> The ADD has produced the ability to come up with many options about how things can be done in different ways, which is of course the main obstruction to progress.
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> So bottom line....It's all my fault you guys have a hard time keeping your batteries charged. :))
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> Ron
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