redundancy in a replaceable system, the ability to carry only a few parts and swap out a part if it goes out or be able to trouble shoot a problem by swapping out for a known good part, this makes sense to me.
at the present time in the engine room I have about every replaceable part for the engine, sans a few, its one of the reasons I bought this boat over others, I like being able to fix it when it breaks down, and on a extended cruise parts are mandatory, I just feel that this engine is been abused and I should replace it prior to failing when I need it most. I would replace it with another diesel if the fuel consumption was much better with more power. But from what I have read, their hasnt been much strides in that arena. at least in the marine engines, I own a box truck that just sips diesel, and at 26ft and fully loaded I can beat a new ford diesel, but thats trucks, the choices on boat motors doesnt give mush fuel savings from one to another. so I am hoping I can make this happen with an electric power plant, A gen set is less annoying running, and easier to find parts for. the Leaman 160 was a bastard motor and not popular, there is thousands of 120 is in use but only a few 160, this makes further parts hard to find.
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Hans Kloepfer <hanskloepfer@...> wrote:
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> If redundancy is what you are looking for have you considered an industrial ac motor like a Baldor. I have seen large yachts which have a large industrial Baldor or similar motors belted to the existing prop shaft. This is just a simple method of providing some redundency. It would perhaps require a larger generator, but this could be used for other power hungry AC appliances.
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