<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi Brian,</div><div>what happened to the high powered motors you were looking at a while back?</div><div>These motors are huge & only put out 1/3 rd horsepower. Minn kotta is 2hp. There is a </div><div>lot of work making a housing for them. The shaft would have to be extended to fit another bearing, seal & the propeller, let alone all the work for a housing that is bolted together &</div><div>sealed with a wiring entry welded on.</div><div>If you are just wanting to do buoyancy / stability tests before you invest in thrusters,</div><div>why not have a small inflatable tender with outboard to drag it round.</div><div>Alternatively look on Cliffs project page on his Minn kotta modification, as he has done</div><div>some good work on them that may be helpful.</div><div>Cheers Alan</div><div><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 21/10/2016, at 4:55 pm, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><div>Hi All,</div><div> Been thinking about how I'm going to get around the harbor with my sub. I'm thinking that for the time being I'm just going to run ( on the surface) a 2000 watt Honda generator and then for the motors , use these 1/3 HP dryer motors in a oil flooded housing, probably made out of aluminum tubing. They obviously run with 120 V AC power. </div><div> </div><div> Since on my sub I will have dual motors on each side, port and starboard, I was thinking to also have additional motors facing foreword to stop my foreword progress ( a brake) . </div><div> </div><div> These dryer motors can be got really cheap , new they're about $75.00 I'm pretty sure they would be ok flooded with oil. So I would have a total of 4 motors , two on each side one going frontwards and one opposing . It would be a totally on or off drive of course , with no speed control. </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Here's a video of the motors I'm talking about. </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIrCUh1S8x8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIrCUh1S8x8</a></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Brian</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Personal_Submersibles mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>