Now that's funny. The tool and die shop was cnc milling some hubs today. The had a long shank end mill in it doing some deep blind plunge milling. Every time it would peck it chattered enough to resonate through the machine and sound like an alarm going off. Sounded like the old Star trek engine room alarm. Some of the brass heard it and went running in there. The machinist hollered I'm given her all she's got in a Scot accent. They didn't think it was funny at all. Boy I sure did. 2 Star Trek references in one day
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Last year I was looking at battery powered outboards. The cost of gas determines a lot of things and you can ballast a boat better with batteries. Weight used to be a concern, but in time, even deep cells will get smaller and smaller. Look at the battery in your phone, years ago, you had a monster battery running a digital readout and then a mini 1" screen. I'm not saying I want to charge my boat, but torque and power is much higher and more efficient coming out of an electric motor.
Anthony
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The efficiency is there in motors, drives and VFDs, but I don't know how long batteries will take to catch up. The new Hummer EV has a boat load of torque and HP. It gets 100 miles of travel on just 10 mins of charging. At full charge it can get 300 miles. How many gallons of gas would you have to carry to get 100-300 miles in a boat and have massive HP & Torque? I'm not pushing for electric boat motors, but if you can plug it in over night and go 300 miles on that charge. Wow!!!
11500 ft lbs of torque
1000 HP
Of course this in a big truck. Brushless motors have a load of potential. Batteries will be the choke point.
Anthony
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For me at least 35 mph would be faster than id want to go in a 17’ aluminum boat if it wasent flat calm water.
At 20 mph it might get twice the milage and would take all of maybe 5 minits longer to get to the place we want to go.
This whole horsepower thing as it relates to outboard powered boats is way over the top in my opinion.
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