Re: Electric vs. gas motor question
Gordon (hlg@pacbell.net)
Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:25:13 -0700
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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>On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 09:05:56PM -0500, LIONEL GALIBERT wrote:
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>> only 42lbs of thrust. I am thinking of upgrading to your model. You said you
>> ran it for about 4 hours on a 95Amp/Hours battery
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>That was *two* 95 amp/hour batteries, as I recall. Series or
>parallel, that is twice as much reserve as one 95 amp/hour battery.
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>--
>Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
>kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain
Yup. I have two 95 Ah batteries in series. A 24 V motor needs only half the
current of a 12 V motor to deliver the same power. If my motor needs 50 A,
a 12 V motor would need 100 A to produce the same power and would need
proportionally heavier wiring.
Harry Gordon
P14 #234, Manatee
Mountain View, CA