Never heard of biscuit tin motors, but I have heard of lynch motors -- used for all kinds of little electric vehicals. I've also heard a bit about eletric boats and ferries -- they used to have one for president Roosevelt (Teddy) I think, for the official launch (equivalent to his Marine 1 helicopter now I guess....). As he said, weight is not an issue, and nowadays, you can easily (technically, if you can afford it) put a kW or so of PV as a shade canopy on the barge and run it around all day, pollution free. I know that the galapagos islands were wanting to convert alot of their little tour boats, because they just tool around all day belching diesel (which also kills alot of the very wildlife the tourists are there to see, in the frequent fuel spills). Not sure how far along they've gotten on this plan.
On 5/3/06, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ 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/
