4 mile Torqeedo run

This is about Sailing around Britain.

5 Responses to “4 mile Torqeedo run”

  1. 18 September, 2017 at 7:22 pmWouter van Wijngaarden says:

    Beautiful day! And a lot more comfortable than my 40 year old noisy, stinky, sputtering and leaking two stroke 4 hp Johnson. But unfortunately also ‘a bit’ more expensive. My solution at the moment is sailing when possible…

  2. 20 September, 2017 at 12:48 pmRobert Horsford says:

    Dylan,

    Interesting. I thought it would be much quieter, indeed I thought it would be near silent, but seeemingly not?

    These electric outboard motors are very appealing until one comes to replacing the 62% that youve’ just consumed; we are anchored in the Kyles of Bute so no shorepower! And I wouldnt want to run the genny for hours to recharge it. So I’m stuck with the 2-stroke for now at least.

  3. 20 September, 2017 at 1:23 pmdylan winter says:

    It is quieter than it sounds on the mike… the mike pulls up any noises it hears. I can talk to other people without raising my voice, it allows me to sneak up on the birds. As Chris (who gave me the outboard) predicted it has changed my attitude towards electric power. It is ideal for local work where I take the outboard home each evening. It is a sort of miracle – put it in the shed at night, the next morning the “tank” is full. An eight mile run is more than enough miles to do in a day in a dinghy.

    Useless for adventuring in scotland unless you go all electric on the mother vessel as well. In which case charging from a dozen heavy duty lead acid batteries is not such a problem.

  4. 21 September, 2017 at 5:20 pmTed B. (Charging Rhino) says:

    I’m curious if over the long term the battery-pack continues to hold a full-charge, or begins to deteriorate. Many of these high-density batteries begin to develop “battery memory”that reduces the amount of charge they deliver and the linearity of the discharge over time. I have a laptop tablet that when I got it at Christmas was good for 5-6 hours of web-browsing. Now just in the last few weeks, after 9-months it barely lasts 2-3 hours before shutting-down, and more alarmingly goes from 50%-charge to 5% in about 20-minutes. At 20% it claims it’s still good for 90-mins of usage, but the power drops to 5% auto shutdown in 5-mins. And of course that battery is non-replaceable so now I have to plan on buying another tablet and transferring my data. I guess I’ll have to relegate it to desk-top duty with it near-permanently plugged-in.

    Hopefully the Torqueedo battery pack’s long-term discharge-profile remains linear and stable. At-least the battery-pack is separate and presumably can be replaced with a (expensive) new one. By that point, probably buying the next-generation of elec-outboard will be cheaper, faster with more capacity. …Like buying a computer in the 1990s.

  5. 21 September, 2017 at 5:52 pmdylan winter says:

    I turns out that nearly all the batteries – laptops, drills, bikes and teslas use more or less the same units

    these

    https://www.batteriesplus.co.uk/acatalog/Panasonic-NCR18650B-Green-Li-Ion-18650-Rechargeable-Battery—3.7-V-3400-mAh-Lithium-cell-1936.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwxo3OBRBpEiwAS7X62bVYrxjw7WFo7IAo_rald67mJLHIKc9jRiaUqKIKAEX8UVcbzzAuuBoCKSUQAvD_BwE

    So they are good to 1000 charges and guaranteed to retain 80 per cent of thier capacity at the end. The old memory effect is dead and gone.

    I hope

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