[PSUBS-MAILIST] Diesel Electric

[Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@Sun.COM>]

Hi,

Any help for Ben?

Thanks,
Ray

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From: "Gilbert, Ben (Contractor Superior Staffing)" <BGilbert@webmd.net>
To: "'ray@psubs.org'" <ray@psubs.org>
Subject: Diesel Electric
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:24:12 -0400

Hello,
I came across your site and find it very interesting as I am in the process
of designing a diesel electric propulsion system for my 44' sailboat.
One area that I am running into problems with is finding a rectifier that
will work for converting the AC output from a diesel generator to DC for
powering the E-motor directly and charging the batteries. 

I was wondering, if you had a moment, if you could explain how you deal with
this on your sub? Do you use a power factor corrected full wave bridge? If
not do think that it is necessary do to the negative effects of ripple/noise
on the other components? 

Thanks,
Ben

44' IGOR sailboat
22,000 lb displacement
10 kiwi  at 240volts  to reach hull speed of 8knots

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