Daniel
I am ready to buy 2 motors myself. What model of Minn Kota is that? Were you able to work any discount? Are you going to buy the complete units or just the motor heads? What are you going to go without speed controllers?
The MotorGuide factory is in my town (Tulsa, OK), but I have had no luck getting a hold of the right sales rep yet. I was going to try to get a deal on some refurbished motor heads or even better yet see if they would sponsor me some units. According to one of their sales reps their digital units have the speed controller integrated into the motor head. They also have a unit with remote controlled steering. That unit might be able to be easily air or oil compensated. See: http://www.motorguide.com/index.pl/motorguide_tour_es
I have also look into Minkota's RipTide Saltwater with 101 lbs thrust, on 36 volts, that draws 37 amps at full power. Jim at www.trollingmotorparts.com quoted me $223 each for the motor head only. He said they have other people were using these on submarines too. Last year the price was $260 each.
Best Regards,
Doug Jackson
In a message dated 7/21/2005 4:29:55 PM Central Daylight Time, daniel@tordaca.com writes:
I have contacted a Minn Kota sales agent and he helped me pick the motors, after 10 emails we concluded that my best choice was to buy 4 motors instead of 3, because they don’t have any 3HP motors I will have to use 2 1.79HP motors to reach the desired power, the thing is that these motors are 36V and the 1/2HP are 12V so I'm going to buy four identical motors all 1.79HP and redesign the electrics for the sub to 36 volts, increasing the power to the side thrusters should not be a problem because for this motors design I'm not increasing speed, I'm increasing acceleration. What do you guys think? I think it will work
Ps: thanks for the link to the converting units page, it's very helpful
Regards Daniel
-----Mensaje original----- De: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org [mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] En nombre de Michael Holt Enviado el: jueves, 21 de julio de 2005 9:07 Para: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Asunto: [PSUBS-MAILIST] What it means (Re: KM-350 MOTORS)
s ï l k y N?³ wrote:
> http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/ > > this link helps when u r trying to convert units dont know LB, is it > 1 pound \ 1 foot \ 1 min if so its thr. the link again. hope i helped
Thanks for the link.
What was Minn-Kota say when they are asked about this? Exactly what does the pounds of thrust number mean? Is it pounds per second?
Mike
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