Hi all A nice person wrote to me from the UK and told me about this, among other things - anyone know about 'biscuit tin motors'?
>You may be interested to know that I own a 1936 canal barge which I >have had converted so that the propulsion system is an electric >lynch motor. I dare say you already know about lynch motors but just >in case you don't they are also known as 'biscuit tin motors' >because they are so tiny that they will actually fit inside one. > >The lynch motor happily pushes along my boat which is 72 feet long >and weighs in at over 20 tons !!!! >Fortunately on a boat , batteries are a positive attribute because >they become ballast to keep the hull down in the water. I usually >have 1,650 amp hours of them onboard. The weak link is the fact that >my budget didn't stretch to the kilowatt of photovoltaics needed to >do the propulsion system justice so I don't travel very far at >present : >( > >Hugh, who fitted the lynch motor has a website www.solarboat.co.uk >which you may find interesting. Also: http://www.lemcoltd.com/ L.M.C. Manufacturers of Permanent Magnet DC Motors Lynch Motor Company Best Keith _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
