T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Golf cart parts for sailboat

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Re: [Electric Boats] Golf cart parts for sailboat

You can get high trust golf cart motors that will work direct drive. they will not regenerate but it sounds as though you do not need regeneration if you have shore power. If you can just plug in regeneration is not really necessary. If you have $1,000.00 to spend you can make a very nice system with "The Beast" a GE motor that gives about 9 hp at 1,600 rpm 36v from memory or 13 hp @ 2200 48v. Motor $519.00 controller $339. reverse $110.00 throttle is $65.00 I think. Or if you want to go real cheap go to a golf cart wrecker and get a high torque 48v from a Cushman (With pulleys) simple belt reduction and you can get around rather well. You can use all the parts from a stock cart except you may want to the throttle. You should be able to do this for $500.00 or less.

Dan

--- On Wed, 8/25/10, brianmisner@rocketmail.com <brianmisner@rocketmail.com> wrote:

From: brianmisner@rocketmail.com <brianmisner@rocketmail.com>
Subject: [Electric Boats] Golf cart parts for sailboat
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 10:51 AM

Hello All,

Brand new to the group, and please forgive me if this thread has been talked about(and I'm sure it has). I have a Cascade 29 that is currently powered with a 12 Farryman, single cylynder (very annoying). With the 33 gallon fuel tank and the engine/trans assembly gone I would have a tremendous amout of room for banks/motor/controller.

Would a typical golf cart 36v or 48v set up work or would I still need a reduction assy? Will these set ups re-gen? I have shore power available for charge, as well as a 2KW gas genny. I could easily add wind/solar. No off-shore work. No extended motoring periods (Columbia river) Also I'm not sure how long a typical golf cart batt bank lasts. The boat is easily run up to hull speed with the farryman and a 12x 8, dbl bladed prop (could probably fit 13").

Obviously, on a budget with the current state of things. Any help getting me pointed in the right direction would be appreciated.