T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Cooling motors

Friday, December 2, 2011

Re: [Electric Boats] Cooling motors

Tom,

the way I understand it is you need water to make a problem with corrosion. If you put a heat transfer paste between the two that helps to.

James

On Dec 2, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Tom wrote:

Any concerns about bolting copper directly to aluminum?
Many years ago I had a bronze (copper alloy) clevis pin in an aluminum boom. The boom eroded around the pin in a few years.

Perhaps the alloys involved in this application are more compatible.

-Tom
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Eric" <ewdysar@...> wrote:
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> Hi Bill,
>
> You should contact James at Propusion Marine in Santa Barbara. He has designed, built and improved a "bolt on" water cooling adapter for the ME09xx motors. He has produced a unit that has shown consistant documentable results.
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> Of course, you can take the time and money to fabricate your own version of his system, but then I would expect that your results may vary....
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> Fair winds,
> Eric
> Marina del Rey, CA
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> --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Bill Heintz <bheintz@> wrote:
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> > I have a Motenergy ME0907 (x Mars Electric ME0201013001) PMAC motor 48v that I would like to Water Cool.
> >
> > Does anyone cave any experience with that? Photos?
> >
> > Initially I thought a coil of thermally conductive plastic tubing wrapped around the stator might work. But then I worried about the lines sweating condensate on to the stator . . .
> >
> > Since I'm not great at re-inventing the wheel, I thought I should ask the experts here first. :)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Bill
> >
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