I was able to test our regen for the first time today. We went out and had a little bit of wind...not a lot but enough to get up to 4 knots. Pushing the Sevcon throttle into forward just a bit seemed to activate regen and the motor controller started putting about 30 watts back into the battery. At one point we hit 4.5 knots and I saw 70 watts going in. I didn't really notice any change in speed if I had the regen on or off (putting the controller back in neutral seemed to stop the prop). I left it running and we put in about 200 watts over 4 hours of just puttering around. I would love to see how much we would get at 6.5 knots considering the prop doesn't really even move at 3 knots and was putting in 70 watts at 4.5 knots. I would be tickled with 300 to 500 watts.
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