Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] enquiry - Surface Propulsion

[Warren Greenway <opensourcesub@yahoo.com>]

They actually make diesel equivalents to the general
purpose diesel engines used in generators. In short
you could just get an old gas generator and replace
the
gas engine with a single cylinder diesel. Robin makes
some of these diesels.

Warren.

--- David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net> wrote:
> (I got a couple weeks behind again.)
> 
> 	Everything Ray said about not using a gasoline
> engine makes sense (I 
> wouldn't trust myself to not get blowed up messing
> with that). But it's 
> a shame, because it would be so handy. For instance,
> going 
> all-electric, with a generator to run during surface
> cruising so you 
> don't run down your batteries? Do they make small
> *diesel* portable 
> generators? One you could lift out topside and start
> up?
> 
> 	What would it take to make a gasoline *outboard*
> run after being 
> submerged? Is there any feasible way of fitting all
> its openings (air 
> intake, fuel cap, exhaust port, am I missing some?)
> with valves? And 
> sealing up all the electric parts with a thick
> coating of some kind of 
> glurp? Is this just a hopeless fantasy?
> 
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 03:35 PM,
> DBACKIDS@aol.com wrote:
> > Regarding using an all electric design or a
> surface tender:
> > Electric: you could easily put cheap solar panels
> on the top of you 
> > sub to provide extra power.
> 
> 	You'd have to float out there a LONG time to put
> any useful charge 
> into a deep cycle battery. That, or have a few
> hundred square feet of 
> panels you could fold out and float on the surface.
> Which, come to 
> think of it, would be really, really cool. What a
> guy needs is a 
> space-program-surplus outlet, with some of those
> high-power intricately 
> folding panels...
> 	Right now, it's overcast - and I'm taking in less
> power than I'm using 
> by reading e-mail on a laptop, and running the
> aquarium filter. I'll 
> have to start the generator later. I'm not saying
> it's not magical cool 
> free energy -- it's just not *that* magical...
> 


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