 Left this morning at 5 a.m. And my little motor wasn't working so I pedaled all the way here Got some good exercise. The weather's looking good. I couldn't get my motor working And I have two different power systems to run it off chances of both of them being broken pretty slim I'm pretty sure the motor Has some kind of problem And I'm getting seriously tired of Fast factory manufactured things Breaking this thing has been corroding like crazy, even though I rinse it off every time I use it and now Somewhere between the electronics and the motor. It just doesn't function All right, no more brushless motors because when the electronics go you can't replace it And a motor with brushes doesn't need any electronics to run it and the brushes are easy to replace So I just need to make sure I have extra brushes not a big deal. They last a long time Okay, the usual motor style is a problem because it's got gears under the water and salt can't get in there Which means there's a seal here where the shaft comes through and if that seal fails water gets in here You got problems. So seal failure is a constant issue I've had a lot of success with this style where it's just a motor long shaft and a propeller It is a little bit difficult to mount on a boat because it has to be so long and then there is a Vibration issue if the shaft isn't like a good straight shaft and I'm cheap and I'm mostly using like Pipes that aren't meant for this While I was pedaling home. I was thinking about this With something like this. I can have a plastic bearing down here that can just be lubricated with seawater There's there are no moving parts other than just a bearing under the water and you know the housing will go up to the motor Okay, so this is the motor. This is shaft. It spins this thing around and here's the top view This spins around here. This is that thing right? It shoots water out the back which gives you propulsion and then this bottom part here is where the water comes in So it comes in here Get shot out now There aren't a lot of these around and Often people say well, you know, there's a reason no one's manufacturing those and the implication is that it doesn't work But there's another reason they don't manufacture a lot of different things which is that maybe the lack of moving parts under the water makes For so little maintenance that companies aren't making repair Money off these things so they don't like that they want this style where seals fail all the time People need to replace the gears because the seawater's gotten in there And you know, it's just expensive to maintain which means company make companies make a lot of money on repairs Now how much less efficient is this or is it I don't even know maybe this can be made To be just as efficient as this I don't know One thing I know is this doesn't have any moving parts under the water And it's not going to be difficult to maintain it other than that one bearing that can be made out of plastic and just Lubricated with seawater And it would be easy to mount because it's vertical like this That's the big advantage with this style easy to mount because it goes vertical This is much harder to mount because you know You got your boat here and it sticks way out the back or you move it forward in the boat It just gets complicated Yeah, I think I want to build this I Don't want to do it until I have a good workshop where I can do a really good job on this thing But I need the work. I need the motor to build the workshop And I need the workshop to build a motor paradox There's a hole in my bucket So is there something I can scrap together for now Until I get that going I do have some thing in my workshop that might be functional This thing is heavy-duty. I have no idea. It's condition I got it really cheap from a guy who's getting rid of it No idea if it works Well, that is geared down a lot Well if this motor will run on 48 volts just hook it up and see what All right, that's got to be the main power coming in which comes to here and I probably want to connect that directly to the motor take that off. Oh There's some writing here, which is not easy to read Getting harder to read the more I rub it the little switches here on the side say 60 volts Which means it's probably Somewhere close to a 48 volt motor, so it should run on 48 volts just fine So if I hook my power from the boat directly up to the motor You know presuming the motor functions Everything should work Well, not everything the motor will turn and the propeller should turn I better check if there's any oil in the gears. Oh that opens nice Okay, that's a good sign. I guess I'll put oil in there Since I don't know the condition of anything in this Taken off all non essential parts everything down to the motor the motor's all all that I need I'm getting a lot of weight off. That's a good sign These switches look like they're in pretty good condition But they all work The motor looks like it's an all right condition. It's pretty good actually Hopefully it is Those are nice quality bolts No rust on them at all What do I do here? I guess just slap it on and see if it works man. That looks great on this boat It looks like it belongs Maybe it's just because it's all beat up and so is my boat The propeller is a little bit high in the water Although when I'm sitting here, it'll definitely be lower and the propeller is probably gonna turn kind of slow, so Shouldn't be that much of a problem if it is I can just put more weight You know what I don't even know if this thing's gonna turn on I Have a bunch of switches to control the solar panels So I'll be able to control how much electricity goes to the motor If I run it directly off the solar panels So let's try that first I'd be lucky That was hoping for too much not a recommended wiring job, but I Should do for a test Okay, come on, please do something other than melt or explode while you're not doing anything Come on That's not good. I can tell by the sparks coming off my little switches here that electricity was definitely flowing This motor is just not turning I guess I can take this apart All right, let's do it Those are complicated brushes Magnets this turns now freely This was touching there and these are magnets that stick to this They're not supposed to touch. I take a piece of wire and put it around here as a spacer It'll keep this away from the Metal things a little bit There's my little copper spacer in there and hopefully Now I think there's a 50-50 chance. This is gonna work Gosh it works. Ha ha ha. Yes Guess I better take it for a spin Please nothing melt or explode Just driving around in circles no problems yet And the motor is not that hot everything seems to be pretty good And it's pretty cloudy right now, so I'm not getting a lot of power and I'm not ready to connect this to the batteries because I don't know how much power this uses If I connect something that will give it as much power as it can take I mean it might be a 10 or 20 horsepower motor for all I know to rip the transom right off the boat I would like to get a little Few minutes with full Sun just to see how fast it goes then but so far Low light conditions low power conditions That's pretty good. I mean I'm definitely moving. I'm not pedaling. Oh, I got some Sun now. Oh, I'm a good sign Yeah, I was happy with it. Oh, here we go getting some more Sun now again Everything looks all right. Nothing's vibrating off. I'm not pedaling at all right now Just letting the motor do a thing directly off solar panels is you can hear The engine rev up every time the clouds get out of the way Every time the clouds get in the way it revs down, which is a bit of a lot of downer But like when the Sun comes out, it's just like fish up ahead Let's take a look at what's going on here. There's like a dozen of these things around And they're pretty good size. I mean That one back there was maybe 18 inches This guy's a little over a foot Definitely eating size. They must have fallen off someone's boat Someone wouldn't throw those away. I got sick and died. There's a fish pandemic. There's more over there There's like 20 of them. I can see a whole bunch over there and over there They must have fallen off someone's boat right or did the apocalypse just start zombies zombies coming? I gotta admit I'm a little bit impressed that that thing works It's been sitting in my building for the last two years and I know the guy I got it from he had it sitting in his shed for I don't know how many years And yeah, it still works See what this is Ray What's a ray 450? I should be able to look that up and see what power the motor is Maybe I can connect it to the batteries without tearing the boat apart Otherwise, I'll have to get a speed controller or blah blah blah But whatever right now I Can use it when the Sun's out and it'll help you go To town and back even if I can't connect to the batteries. It's most of the time I'm going when the Sun's out anyway, and I mean when I don't have the motor I just pedal and I just pedaled all the way there back anyway, so Any help is great