Re: [electricboats] CAN to NMEA2000 motor data

I have a Cat 30 as well and just put in the same system with AGM batteries. 

What prop are you using and what's the pitch? 

I'm also trying to figure out the best engine RPMs to run while use a 2:1 gear reduction. Any suggestions on proper Engine RPMs?

Many thanks!

Jeff

On Mar 7, 2020, at 10:33 AM, L Schmitz via Groups.Io <terminalift=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

 What motor do you have?  I have 10kw thunderstruck kit. I am very pleased with it. My sailboat is 40 ft. But race boat is about same weight as your cat 30 I built my battery system lifepo4 cells. 6 to 7 hrs run time at close to hull speed. Charging overnight when needed No diesel or bilge smells.  All good here.  cheers

Best regards,

Larry Schmitz

On Saturday, March 7, 2020, 7:20 AM, Peter Zephyr <Pcbeckett@gmail.com> wrote:

I have an electric engine in my Catalina 30 and it uses a Sevcon Gen4 controller.  Currently I have a Sevcon Clearview display that connects to what looks like an OBD-II plug on the Sevcon and this displays a lot of data like motor speed, Voltage and Amps.  The display also has the capability of updating parameters in the Sevcon controller.  I want to be able to display the engine speed and possibly the Volts and Amps being used on my Garmin GPSMap 942 chart plotter which is connected to NMEA2000 network.  On the network I have connected my wind and direction device as well as water depth and temp device.  I have been looking at ADFWEB.com which has a CANopen to NMEA2000 device and wondered if anyone has tried interfacing a Sevcon Gen 4 controller to NMEA200 network?

Rgds  Peter