Moving Forward Thanks Lohring for your conclusive summary. Thanks, also for all of you others that offered their advice. I believe that I...
Thanks Gentleman for all of this effort into such a deep investigation of this concept. It seems that the initial thoughts were disappointing, and...
Hey Gonzo, Good point. My boat is a catamaran, and I need to divide the weight between hulls. I am prepared to go to 6 batteries if needed, but...
One more note. The motor will run at full output only part of the time. 1/2 or more time is spent low trolling while fishing. JV
Thanks guys for the input. To help clarify what I'm trying to do, let me explain that I will set an amperage limiter in the Pulse-Modulated Speed...
Hello Friends, I am trying to upgrade to a larger trolling motor to power my Electric powered boat. My intention is to take a 36 volt Trolling...
Great! Now how about hull form or shape? Thanks sailingdaniel, I have posted before about similar topics, but I like the way this thread is...
Hello Justin, Have you tried to contact Lee Creekmore, the Designer, for help with this? I believe he still resides somewhere in Southern...
http://www.westsystem.com/ss/assets/Uploads/Gougmarans.pdf Has anyone followed this interesting project by the Gougeon Brothers a few years...
Trying to Compile Thanks for the follow-ups guys. I'm starting to see things clearer, and your notes, terhohalme, on effiency losses are...
Here we go again Hi guys, I am going to re-direct this thread a bit, as I felt that some here were trying to close it, and I have some things...
Hi Mental, I thought that I'd check up on your progress and bring your Thread back up to the top. My Electric Cat Thread seems to be fading away,...
Latest Hull Hi Guys, I had trouble getting any of my CAD tools to work on the imported Hull file from Rick, so I fudged around to come up with a...
Good Ideas, Mental. I'll try to use my Cad program to do what you suggest and see what I come up with. Maybe I'll only have to reshape the ends...
Thanks for the link, Porta. I think that if Rick is trying to pull back, then I will respect that and just leave him alone to carry on with what...
Rick!! We Love You Man!!! I'm right with you guys about Rick...I felt from reading all of his posts that I was really getting to know him as a...
Getting real Close!! I have been waiting to come back to everyone with some finalized data, but that is not happening yet. I would truly like to...
Hi Porta, Thanks for the info. If I put it another way, my curiosity was that if, as you say, the motor draws more than the Solar Panel, there is...
Thanks so much Mental, for your valuable input. I was taking a time out in order to re-evaluate my entire boat project. One thing that I...
Poorqeedo goes Toorpedo Hey everyone...I'm Back, No sooner did I bail out on my thread here about Catamaran design, to start to follow the...