[Public-List] Electric power.

[George Dinwiddie]

Richard,

On 7/13/13 3:40 PM, Richard Mair wrote:
> I did not really price a diesel but I do not think there is a large up
> front difference  in cost.
> You have to add the  cost of batteries and chargers as well as the solar
> panels. That being said I would not change back. The only disadvantage is
> range. This I  took care  of with a Honda 1000 gen.

What's the ballpark total cost?

> If you need to motor a long distance you will need to go slow.
> Now the good. Docking is much improved. We changed to a 13*12  3 blade prop
> to take advantage of the system. We can run for 8 hours at 3+ knots in
> calm. We run two battery banks in series  parallel totaling 200 amp hours.

Is that 200 AH at 48 volts (~10kW)?

> We have a small house battery with its own solar panel and two more panels
> charging the traction pack. There is a 48-12 converter that can charge the
> house. Under way by sail power you will not run out of power. At 4.5 knots
> the regen makes enough power to run the radar and still put some into  the
> batteries.
> We went with the Electric Yacht 100ibl system and love  it. Have  had it
> doing 5 knots  using about 75 amps. The system is good for 100 amps so
> there is probably another. 2.
> Feel free to ask any questions and we can go off list if we bore too many
> people.

Please keep it here. There are many who are interested.

  - George

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