[Rhodes22-list] Electric Motor

[Shawn Boles]

Hi all :
Torqueedo has a remote control if you don't like the tiller  control. I
also bought a add-on from them that allows you to charge the battery on the
Travel models from house battery using a 12 volt plug cable. (About $50).
They also make a solar charger for the travel models.

Cheers,
Shawn
s/v Sweet Baboo


On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 8:50 AM David Keyes <rhodes22dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I just thought of a problem (about using an electric motor with
> heavy batteries installed onboard).   My lake (Lake Travis, Austin, Texas)
> has large fluctuations—up to 80 or 90 feet—in dry weather when the City of
> Austin and many downstream water users (rice farmers and downstream
> industries all the way to the Gulf of Mexico) take water out of the lake.
> Some summers, when the lake gets very low, our marina has to move it’s
> docks out from their cove and into the deeper parts of the lake—where there
> is no shore power.  So a motor such as the Torqeedo 2.0 or 4.0 would be
> inoperative for an entire summer.
>
> This would not be a problem with the small, 3 hp equivalent, Torqeedo C
> 1103–its relatively light battery can be carried back and forth, charged at
> home, and snapped back into the engine top, where it looks like part of the
> engine.
>
> Problems: low power and range, rated for sailboats only up to 1-1/2 tons,
> and steering and throttle only by its non-removable tiller.  I have Stan’s
> electric motor lift, which is so close to the boat that I would either have
> to replace the lift or devise a bracket or pin at the motor top clear of
> the snap-in battery that sits there.  The bracket or pin would permit
> attachment to the cross-arm that pivots from the sailboat’s rudder head.
> Also, this could work only if the motor’s tiller can be rotated to a
> vertical position so as not to hit the transom.
>
> David Keyes
> S/V Arrowhead II (if a name were painted on it, which it isn’t)
> Lake Travis
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 4, 2020, at 3:06 AM, jose <jose.faraldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > You're quite right; the remote throttle is significantly wider than the
> > tiller, so I doubt there would be a good way to mount it there - though I
> > might lack imagination. In our boat Stan mounted the throttle on the
> > port-side gunwale (see picture attached), so it is within reach while
> > handling the tiller.
> >
> > Jose
> >
> > <http://rhodes-22.1065344.n5.nabble.com/file/t665/throttle.jpg>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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>