[Public-List] Electric power.

[Richard Mair]

Ballpark  I think the motor cost us $3000. It was 1000 less than the 100ibl
lists for as the dealer wanted to use it for a boat show.
8 Lifeline AGM 100 ah batteries about 2400. 4 24 volt chargers about 1000
and a Honda 1000 generator. About $8000 when you add the connecting wires.
I did all the labour. Forgot the mew 3 blade 13*12 prop
200 amps at 48 volts so 9600 watts.
The Honda will run 5 hours on 2 liters of fuel.
If there is wind we make enough power to keep all batteries up.
350 watts at 4.5 knots.
I will post more as time and comnection allows. We start heading for
Toronto This week. If someone askes and no answer fpr a few days I will ger
to it.
Richard 609
On 2013-07-13 7:06 PM, "George Dinwiddie" <gdinwiddie at alberg30.org> wrote:

> 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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