One more EV on the water today!
Just a note to thank everyone for their help and suggestions, and to report that I motored out of the marina under electric power for the first time this evening.
There is a lot of little work to do
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Ryan Sweet
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Re: What spares do you keep on hand?
Ryan, I think your list is reasonable. After I found myself adrift with no electrical power at all, not the motor, nor the lights or radio, as night fell, I got a full set of spare fuses. It didn't
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Damon Lane
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Re: SOLVED - How to reset a fault with the sevcon GEN 4 controller?
Ok, so score one for reading the manual and double checking everything.
I think my adventure with the charger was a red herring.
Looking at the cables carefully, the cable from the battery to the
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Ryan Sweet
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Re: What spares do you keep on hand?
Brush motor configs:
Spare brush set.
Spare controller.
Outboard configs:
Spare prop.
Spare shear pins, cotter pins, nut.
Gear lube
Rear seal
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Myles Twete
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#30665
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What spares do you keep on hand?
While I try to isolate the cause of my failure (see other thread), I¡¯m trying to think through what else could go wrong.
What spares do you keep on board for an Electric drive system?
- belts
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Ryan Sweet
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#30664
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Re: How to reset a fault with the sevcon GEN 4 controller?
Sorry, my bad. I think that was the charge controller I was thinking about. And it was the charge controller that gave me a blinking light. I don¡¯t recall the second having a light.
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Larry Brown
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Re: How to reset a fault with the sevcon GEN 4 controller?
Do you have the usb to serial cable to connect to the console with a laptop? There is a ton of information available on that console and it may be displaying the issue.
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Larry Brown
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Re: How to reset a fault with the sevcon GEN 4 controller?
Thank you.
It¡¯s AGM, they were all balanced and evenly charged on the bench before being moved to the boat.
I haven¡¯t tried with the charger again since disconnecting it (trying to return back
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Ryan Sweet
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Re: How to reset a fault with the sevcon GEN 4 controller?
Hi Ryan,
Are you using LiFePO4 then the voltage of all the batteries MUST be inside 0.1 Volt (eg. 12.84-12.94) before you attemt to connect them into a bank.Did you check ?
Is the sevcon fine when
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Carsten
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#30660
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Re: Engine room tips?
I hope that your project is going well.Take a lot of photos !
If your stainless fasteners are magnetic, don't use them in a boat meant for salt water.Seaworthy 316 is practically non-magnetic, 304 a
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Carsten
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More basic question about sevcon gen4
?Does one expect the sevcon gen 4 to clear fault codes without intervention if the fault condition is ameliorated, or is intervention required?
With my old Toyota Highlander hybrid it always
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Ryan Sweet
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#30658
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How to reset a fault with the sevcon GEN 4 controller?
So I had everything working, and at a certain point I plugged in the charger for the batteries and attempted to spin the motor at the same time. At this point the sevcon resorted to a fault with the
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Ryan Sweet
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Re: Engine room tips?
Think 400 isn¡¯t?Saved me when had to get a broken screw out of deep hole
Sharks like salt water....
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sw
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Re: Engine room tips?
Yes, but that type is probably not suitable for marine use - or in use where it MAY get exposed to salt water.
When you stick stainless in salt water you rapidly discover there more to stainless
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Matthew Geier
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Re: Engine room tips?
Some stainless is magnetic
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sw
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Re: Engine room tips?
Illustrating why I¡¯m excited to always be learning ;-).
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Ryan Sweet
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Re: Engine room tips?
Wow I did not think of that smart !!!
wrote:
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Phil Costello
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Re: Engine room tips?
Hopefully, you¡¯ll be using stainless fasteners - which are non-magnetic!
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Graham McGlashan
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Re: Battery recommendation for trolling motor on dinghy
I heard Newport motors from China are good?And some have used model airplane props
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sw
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Re: Battery recommendation for trolling motor on dinghy
I apologize, didn¡¯t see this post a month ago, but I had good luck with a generic 86lbs thrust trolling motor (see multiple Chinese brands on amazon) and a plain old interstate lead acid 24v marine
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Ryan Sweet
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