Good Lord........I feel like an idiot. I put those emoticons in after my 40 HP sentence but they didn't show in my reply. I know you can't create HP by gearing down. Just trying to be funny. Since your last e-mail I have been looking at other motors and they aren't cheap. I buy a lot of...
Tom:
It just occurred to me that I will be reducing the motors out put by around 10 to 1. Wouldn't this net 40 hp per motor?
Also there will be two 3' wide paddlewheels with separate motors for better steering control.
Regards
Bert
Thanks Tom. I guess my next step is to calculate the force needed to push a 3' X 10" board through the water at a known velocity. I can work backward from there to come up with appropriate hydraulic motors. My pump driving motor will be a 3 cylinder diesel with about 22HP.
Thanks for the...
I'm designing a paddle wheel drive house boat and need to do some calculations to see if the parts I have on hand can do the job.
Paddle wheels will be 6' dia. with 8 paddles by 3' long . Paddles will be 3' long by 10" and will have the tops of the paddles submerged by 2" to 3" when the paddle...
