And the 12V will lose a lot of power, just from being 12V.
Low-voltage DC is pretty inefficient.
On 08/12/2016 05:10, boat_works@yahoo.com [electricboats] wrote:
> The 12V motor will run a bit more than twice as long from the parallel
> configuration than it would with a single battery.
>
> The 24V motor with the series configuration will have the ability to
> provide more thrust than the 12V motor, but will consume more power
> when run "wide open".
>
> At lower "throttle" settings the power consumption of either motor
> would the same.
>
> So do you want the extended run time of the 12V motor and the parallel
> battery bank, or do you want the greater thrust of the 24V?
>
> And FWIW, I can't see a 11' v-bottom hull weighing over 400 lbs
> getting anywhere near 13 MPH ( barely up on a plane) with ANY trolling
> motor.
>
> -Tom
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-hanermo (cnc designs)
Posted by: Hannu Venermo <gcode.fi@gmail.com>
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