 All right, I'm doing another test in my little boat here. First thing I'm noticing right away is that I don't have pedals. So I couldn't reverse pedal out of the canal here, I had to paddle, which is totally fine. It's not worth having pedals just to pedal backwards out of my parking spot. All right, I also brought an amp meter. So I'm going to connect that across my switches and see how many amps I'm actually using. Hopefully I can get that on camera so I don't forget. Let me just back up and get straightened out here. Although while I'm at it, look how beautiful this place is. Oh my God, what a place. And I keep having compulsion to pedal, but I have no pedals. There are no pedals, Jamie. OK, I got to paddle backwards for a second here, so I don't hit any mangroves. All right, well, as long as I steer, it should be fine. First speed, second speed. And I think that's it. That's a noticeable difference after I took that propeller out. All right, full power. Oh, I love this boat. Oh, this is so awesome. Oh, I love this boat. You have quiet it is without the pedals now. Still hear the motor a little bit. OK, now I want to get this amp meter out. And see, oh, you know what? I need to turn my solar panels on. I just realized that I was running on only battery and the sun's out. So, yeah, now I'm running on. I've got two solar panels charging the batteries all the time. And I've got two solar panels connected to the motor. And you know what? That should change my low speeds, too. So right now, the battery is totally disconnected. I'm running just on two solar panels. And if I the sun is over there, so if I tilt my thing, yeah. All right, let's see what the slow speed is like now. And I've also got the solar panels on. Yeah, that is noticeably more. I need to remember to connect that solar panel switch. All right, second speed. Third speed should not make much of a difference because it's just maximum power on the motor. However, with the bit of extra energy coming in from the solar panels, the battery should be able to maintain a slightly higher voltage. So it will have a slightly higher top speed with the solar panel on. All right, top speed. This is awesome. I think it's too far from home. Man, it's crazy how far I got just in that short period of time. Another thing I'm really happy about is the steering on this boat. Rack and pinion steering that's like up under there. I'm not putting the part down there. That sounds about right. OK, that's I think that's yeah, sounds good. All right, 30. Oh, we're going to go over 40 on the high speed. That's 34 on the medium speed over 50. That's not a good sign. My speed is over 50, but that was when I'm accelerating. So it's going to use more electricity while I'm accelerating. I'm not sure how much energy it's going to use when I'm actually going full speed. It'll it should be reduced, but I don't want to leave that amp meter connected because it's content. I mean, just holding the context up to something that's doing 50 amps. It's going to melt something. All right, what did I say? Twenty two thirty five, I should be able to I don't know, hopefully this fast speed is somewhere around 50 though. That's definitely a little high for this motor because the motor is rated for 39 like 40 amps. Maybe I should shrink my propeller a little bit. I don't know. Well, there are two different ways I could deal with this. I could just shrink the blades a little bit somehow. You know, maybe trim up a bit on the end, reduce the pitch a bit. That means go like this higher pitch would be like this, lower pitch would be like that. Higher pitch is like switching to higher gears on your bike or more. This way is a lower gear. I kind of feel like I'm running in too high of a gear. Which is overloading the motor. It's not real bad. Like I could just deal with it. However, I don't want to reduce the life of the motor. And plus I'm I'm pretty sure I'm wasting energy since the motor's not running and it's optimum RPM's probably. So if I make it a little bit lower gear, then should be able to spin easier. I might even get more propulsion with less power, which would be kind of nice. I think that's the best choice to try to change the pitch a little bit rather than just trim some off. So if I want to change the pitch a little bit, like I kind of need to file off a bit here and a bit there and just kind of try to get the thing a little bit more that way. That's a nice propeller. I made it out of fiberglass a few years ago. Nice thing about a fiberglass propeller is you know, it's pretty easy to to file it and sand it and change the shape a little. And if I really wanted to, I could add more fiberglass to this. So I could take away and add. Hopefully I don't have to add anything because I don't be a pain in the butt, but it is. It is an option before someone asks in case anyone missed it, I made this propeller by making a stepped plywood thing standing one side. And that's the shape of each propeller blade. I could just, oh, you can actually see the outline. I waxed this really well, obviously, and then put fiberglass right along here. And that's the shape of each blade. OK, I'm thinking I can grind off this back edge kind of like up to this line and I've drawn a line on each one so I can make sure they're the same. Hopefully I just remembered I have this aluminium aluminum propeller which has a lower pitch. So maybe I should put this on the boat and test it. Hmm. Yeah. Maybe I'll hold off on cutting that up. Just give this a nice sanding. Make sure it's nice and smooth. Make a fitting that fits in there. That's the same diameter as this. And then to mount it, I just need a hole. I can drill a hole through that. Oh, it's got a hole right there. Cool. So I'll need some mounting thing that comes up to the front of here because this helps hold the bearing in place. All right, let's do it. I'm pretty sure that if I take these over to a lathe, I can make something that'll fit in here and work. OK, well, it's on there. So I can take this boat out for another test as soon as the water level comes up. It's a mighty low tide right now. I could probably smooth out the water flow a little bit by putting a little collar around up here. And I'm not going to worry about it right now. So I'll do another test drive. Check the amperage with my amp meter. Hopefully it'll use less power and go pretty close to the same speed. Of course, I don't actually have anything I've been using to measure speed other than, oh, it looks so fast. All right, I'm back in the boat with the new propeller. Let's just do a couple of quick tests. I turned my solar panels on. I wasn't expecting to get any energy, but I am getting a little bit. The motor's on. Now I'll turn the solar panels off. OK, just battery power, low speed. Well, I would say at low speed, that's that feels like it's faster than the old low speed. But that would make sense because the the propeller should work better at lower power. So probably the second speed is going to be noticeably faster, too. That seems pretty good. All right, let's full speed it. I can't tell if it's any faster than before or not. But man, either way, it is still cooking. Man, we are still moving either way. So I was hoping that when I change that propeller, I'm reducing the amount of power the motor uses. I brought my little amp meter. I'm going to connect that, check the power again. If I remember correctly, the low speed was twenty two amps. See if I can hold this in place there. I think it was like so. Well, it's like 20 amps. So there is a reduction in power. And I think I'm actually going. Come on, stay. I think I'm actually going faster at this speed. Yeah, if I look over here, it's right about 20 amps. All right, let's get second speed like thirty two, like thirty one. Thirty one about and it was thirty five before. So I'm definitely saving some power. I don't really want to use this on the full speed because it's still going to be pretty high for this thing. I don't know, let me let me put the camera down and I'll do it with both hands so I can get a really good contact. All right, that's that's medium speed. So now I just need to touch this from here up to there. Yeah, between this and that. All right, we do it off camera. Well, it's still maxing out my little meter here. So it's above fifty. It's got to be better than it was, though, because the lower speeds, it went from twenty two to twenty. Is that what it was? And then the second speed went from thirty five down to thirty one. So it's an improvement. And there doesn't seem to be any noticeable decrease in speed at the high speed. High speed still seems, I don't know, it just seems fast. So I guess I'm going to go with this propeller for a while. Go have some fun first speed. So this is thirty what, thirty one amps, right? With a hundred amp hour thing, that means I could do this speed for three hours. Oh, you know what else I need to check? So at this speed, there is electricity going through my speed controller here. Yeah, not the front part, just the back part. And it is definitely hotter than I want to touch. But the bolts up here are not too hot. It's pretty hot, but yeah, the bolts aren't getting too hot. So it's not going to melt anything up here. Yeah, I think it's fine. Pretty good speed. Hours over three hours. OK, back inside, where I don't have to worry about the wind and messing up the microphone. Yeah, sorry about that. So I think I'm pretty happy with how it's going right now. I can still add some speed to the boat, obviously, if I get the barnacles off the bottom, they're almost all off. And you know, there's a little bit left. So if I get those off, I'll get a bit more speed. And if I did something around the propeller, like in front of the propeller and behind the propeller, like behind the propeller, maybe make, maybe cut off that pipe so it's not sticking out so far and make a bit of a cone just so it's more streamlined and then in front of the pipe, just put a collar so it's just just streamlined the whole thing, you know. But it's working pretty well. And the lower speeds. So I'm definitely getting more speed at the lower speeds with this with the lower pitch propeller, which was to be expected because at a lower pitch with less power, you'll have better performance than with something that's kind of pitched for a higher power thing. I did consider briefly just using the old propeller with the higher pitch and putting in a bigger motor because I have the motor out there as a one horsepower and I have a one and a half horsepower motor, which, you know, by my rough estimation would probably like pretty well match that faster, the higher pitch propeller. And that thing would go like crazy with that on it, I bet. However, I'm not going for maximum speed. I need I need good speed over a long distance. So I want to keep the same size motor and I'll use the lower pitch propeller. And another thing that I'm very much enjoying is getting the boat in and out of the water without the pedal propeller. And I could not get the boat out in the in the water level I did today and yesterday with, you know, before when I had the pedals on because the pedal propeller would have totally bottomed out and hit the bottom and gotten wrecked. So that's really nice. The the tide was actually still pretty low when I got the boat out and I got it out, no problem. So that's very exciting. Yeah, then that I think I'm just going to shut up. Although next I have got headlights to put on the boat. On both boats, I have a bunch of them. Oh, that's exciting business. But that's for future.