T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Repowering a 65 motor sailer

Friday, January 14, 2011

Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Repowering a 65 motor sailer

Tom the Gen Set would be running when the motors are running, but its only 12.5kw so pulling 60k out for a motor wouldnt be long before I had batterys would be defeated, the motors need to be run hours on end and not just to back it up on a dock, it is a sail boat, but when the seas are rough I be motoring more than a bank of batteries can hold

--- On Thu, 1/13/11, Tom <boat_works@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Tom <boat_works@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Electric Boats] Re: Repowering a 65 motor sailer
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 5:03 PM

I may have missed it somewhere in this thread, but I don't recall: Is the boat intended to be run under battery power alone (no genset running), and for how long?

-Tom

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, GNHBus@... wrote:
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> I was looking at Baldors yesterday, this would take @ 40-50kw , do you have
> more infos on this Hans?
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> In a message dated 1/12/2011 8:35:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> hanskloepfer@... writes:
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> If redundancy is what you are looking for have you considered an
> industrial ac motor like a Baldor. I have seen large yachts which have a large
> industrial Baldor or similar motors belted to the existing prop shaft. This is
> just a simple method of providing some redundency. It would perhaps require
> a larger generator, but this could be used for other power hungry AC
> appliances.
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> Just a thought.
> Hans K
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