Why have you gone thru 4 motors? Where they all bad from the factory? Has Electric Motor Sports made good and given you 4 new motors under warrantee? Because if they have it sounds like you don't have a whole lot to complain about from them.
An electric conversion is NOT for novices no matter what the online ad might make it sound like. Even with a background in working on boats all my life, a mechanical engineering degree, and 20 years of industrial maintenance and construction experience it was one of the most challenging projects I've ever undertaken. It can save you a ton of money if you can pull it off from one of the many "kits" available on line but it is a "Do it Yourself" deal so you can't expect much more than a few answers to specific questions from your vendor. They owe you that but not much more and you can't expect them to walk you thru it step by step, they're just not making enough money to do that. That is why the retailers charge 3 times as much for the same hardware you can buy wholesale online. And you can pretty much count on the fact that your "kit" is not going to have everything you need, those are some of the blanks you pay the retailer to fill for you.
My advice would be to find someone who has extensive experience with your particualar hardware, bite the bullet and hire them to help you. Hopefully you will come out spending less than if you'd hired a retailer to do it for you to begin with.
Good luck.
From: robert <bobnichols55@yahoo.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:08 PM
Subject: [Electric Boats] Conversion kit
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:08 PM
Subject: [Electric Boats] Conversion kit
I recently purchased a Pma motor sailboat drive kit from Electric Motor Sport . I have have had nothing but trouble from this kit . I do not know what Todd Kollin was on when he buil his kit . It was a plug and play kit. This kit contains a Mars M1012 pma motor and a Sevcon Gen4 Controller . After 4 months of this Plug and Play kit , I am on the 4th motor rom Motengery . Todd Kollin would not talk to me after the second motor . I received no paper work or any instruction from Electric Motor Sports. Now I am getting realy desprite About getting this thig going . Could anyone please give me some advice on what to do next . This kit is made up of great products but nothing works and now I have to much in it to go back to Deisel. This is my first post of any form.
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