 Gonna have to take this off first because that big gear is bigger than the old big gear So it's not gonna come to here. It's gonna come to like here somewhere I may have to cut a chunk out of this and shrink it Well, that is gonna be a big strength improvement This one in real smooth though It fits perfectly All right, if I can push out some of this material in here, hopefully I can slide this over this part File some of this off too Ooh It's like right on Pedals all in there. It's looking pretty good this part that I cut off I Rooted up the inside to it slide back over the the shaft and then Resented in and put a bunch of screws to make sure it doesn't move. It looks like it's doing pretty good Now I just need to run that a whole bunch So the teeth will wear into each other and get smoother It's actually noticeably smoother already than when I first put it on a few days ago. Oh And when I put the propeller back on I stuck on that little Cone thing that I made before for it now it's been raining for like a week and The Sun just came out for the first time in days. So I want to test something Yesterday when there was no sign I couldn't really check it. I pulled out this little solar panel, which is like 1.7 volts roughly and I put it in line with this solar panel, which is the one that charges the batteries in there And I did that because this is a little bit low voltage to charge the batteries So it's like 27 and a bit volts and then this one's 1.7 So I'm running this one through that one and then into the batteries So it should be more like 28 and a half ish volts and that would be a good voltage to charge the batteries to so And I grab my little thing here See how that's doing Well, while I'm sitting in here, I think I'll get a bit of pedaling done Believe it or not that is Significantly smoother than when I first put them on every day. I come out here and just to run them a little bit usually with my hands I haven't taken the boat out yet because it's been kind of stormy The propeller's doing back there. Hopefully that's lined up All right, the voltage hasn't gone up yet from what it was before so that's not a good sign Let me see what the voltage is now With that extra solar panel connected in like what's coming in from the solar panels into the charge controller Okay, that is excellent Nice and full Sun 28.7 8 great I checked with my little amp meter here that current is in fact going into the batteries Only about two amps though because this little solar panel Isn't doesn't match the the big ones as a lower amperage, so it's limiting it, but it's going in so maybe 50 it's getting about 50 watts into the batteries, so I'll just have to wait a little bit and Check them later. All right, so where did I get this weird 1.7 volt? solar panel it It came off One of those big roll-out solar panels that like glue to your roof it was There were a few old ones that someone was getting rid of I was like yeah, I'll take them and They were kind of in rough shape But I cut out some sections that were in good shape and you know operated on them to find the contacts and and Attach some wires and then just put some glue and PVC pipes on the on the end there to Close it and make sure nothing gets in there and I did that like a year and a half ago, so this has just been sitting around since then and now it has a job So hopefully it'll do good, and maybe I'll need to make another I Don't know maybe two more of these Make it so I can just mount them on the side here or something and whenever I'm parked I can pop them up and plug them in I Know I explained why I have this voltage solar panels before but just to recap It's having the lower voltage solar panels is more efficient while driving. It won't charge as fast or Even fully charge the batteries when I'm parked, but while I'm driving I'll get much more energy directly from the solar panels because basically the solar panels are matched up with the motor voltage so I can run directly to the motor so With a lower voltage I can get a higher amperage and get more energy to the motor When I'm driving which I think is more important than when I'm parked because I can just park long enough to Charge the batteries all the way and the solar panels that are there Now I only only the rear one is charging the battery, but that'll charge the battery most of the way anyway Just check my voltage under there 27.4 before I stuck this little solar panel on it was maxing out at 20 27.1. Yeah, so I'm already up three-tenths of a volt good stuff. I Believe that says twenty eight point three now Excellent, I'm thinking I might want to make foot pedals. You know, it's much easier to Pedal pedals with a flat thing that you can strap yourself into rather than just a round bar