I have a few questions concerning a project I am currently working on, I'm still in the early stages and i'll be honest not truly sure what I'm doing, LOL. I live on a rather large lake here in alabama, At the start of the summer we had a pedal boat that I added an old 10 lbs thrust trolling motor too, and then later built a roof and added a 45 watt harbor freight solar panel kit, on a sunny we could run the boat without a battery in it, which was fun in knowing that we could run on "sun Power".
Well now I wanna step up my experiment, I have an old 24 foot pontoon boat, and was recently gifted an electric motor Its a ME0708 Montenergy, http://www.motenergy.com/me0708.html, I am either gonna use a Glen L design on the drive http://www.glen-l.com/designs/specia...tricdrive.html, mount the motor on an old 25 HP johnson (I have access to the outboard with a bad powerhead) or attempt to do an inboard set up. The motor can be ran at 12, 24, 36 or 48 volts, I'm still undecided on the exact voltage I need to use it at. I do plan on a battery pack, and a pwm controller.
I'm not sure how the solar panels work, can they be run is series and parallel just like a battery can be? I'm wanting to be able to actually run this motor on solar power alone? is that possible at these voltages? The motor says its rated at 100 amps continuous and up 300 amps for one minute, so My thinking is the 300 amps is a spike when the motor starts? and the 100 amps is wide open running speed? How do I figure what watt amount of solar panels I would need?
Now to some of you these might sound like dumb questions, But I hate to say it messing with Electricity is way out of my knowledge range, I'm good with automotive style electronics there basicly all 12 volts.
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Mike
Well now I wanna step up my experiment, I have an old 24 foot pontoon boat, and was recently gifted an electric motor Its a ME0708 Montenergy, http://www.motenergy.com/me0708.html, I am either gonna use a Glen L design on the drive http://www.glen-l.com/designs/specia...tricdrive.html, mount the motor on an old 25 HP johnson (I have access to the outboard with a bad powerhead) or attempt to do an inboard set up. The motor can be ran at 12, 24, 36 or 48 volts, I'm still undecided on the exact voltage I need to use it at. I do plan on a battery pack, and a pwm controller.
I'm not sure how the solar panels work, can they be run is series and parallel just like a battery can be? I'm wanting to be able to actually run this motor on solar power alone? is that possible at these voltages? The motor says its rated at 100 amps continuous and up 300 amps for one minute, so My thinking is the 300 amps is a spike when the motor starts? and the 100 amps is wide open running speed? How do I figure what watt amount of solar panels I would need?
Now to some of you these might sound like dumb questions, But I hate to say it messing with Electricity is way out of my knowledge range, I'm good with automotive style electronics there basicly all 12 volts.
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Mike
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