Saturday, June 6, 2009

Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Homemade electric auxillary?



johnwaddick wrote:
> So I rigged up an old $5 10" 12v car fan and immersed it in the pool for two hours. It worked fine, with good revs but not a huge amount of torque. Then I waited week to see if internal corrosion would ruin it and ran it again. It ran perfectly again for another three hours.
>
I don't imagine it would have been so happy if it had been in salt
water. I'd be worried about the water getting the bearings and washing
the lubricant out.
Salt water is also electrically conductive, so you would lose power to
the water, even if it wasn't conductive enough to actually cause a short
circuit failure.

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