Did you go electric ?
From: antonherbert <antonherbert@yahoo.com>
To: electricboats <electricboats@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Oct 4, 2012 12:18 am
Subject: [Electric Boats] Westsail 32 conversion.
My boat is a westsail 32
32 feet long
20000 lbs displacement.
I am hoping to get a range of 20 or 30 nm, at 4 or 5 kts.
I should also want to be able to hit my hull speed of 6 or 7.5 kts for 10 min or so to get over a bar or out of the way of a ship.
I am thinking of a 48 volt system.
Eventually I would like to do a diesel genset installation, but probably a honda 2000 generator for the time being.
I have heard the figure of 1kw per ton of displacement, does it seam like the 10.5 kit from thunderstruck motors would be sufficient?
http://www.thunderstruck-ev.com/sevcon-brushless-sailboat-kit-10.5kw.html
most likely I would get their gear reduction:
http://www.thunderstruck-ev.com/ts-gear-reduction.html
Is any one using ME 0913 on a boat as heavy as mine?
I am thinking of going with AGM type batterys.
how big a battery back do you recommend?
Thank you for your time.... (and encouragement?)
Anton
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