[PSUBS-MAILIST] 36v thruster - rebuild or replace with 12v?

Fri Sep 22 17:46:19 EDT 2017

Hi 

Ref  36 volt motor I am using a motor which is powered by thirty six volts in Casper 2 the motor is a Agni 95 and are available on the inter net.

This motor is very powerful and drives my sub I would recommend you look at this motor as it is compact only eight inches across and five inches in depth  I would recommend you take a look/

Regards

Graham Bayliss

From: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org] On Behalf Of Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles
Sent: 22 September 2017 16:32
To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] 36v thruster - rebuild or replace with 12v?

If I had to do a complete replacement I would use trolling motors, and definitely 36 volt instead of 12. It's only a third the current for the same power, which makes a big difference in lots of good ways. But your case is special, because you already have the hard cans, props, linkages, and through-hulls. If you put in trolling motors you'd also have to do things like air or oil compensate them, probably get new through-hulls, etc. So given the bird in hand, it's probably worth just looking around for a new motor that can fit in the existing can, or have the old one fixed.  

Best,

Alec

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Brian Hughes via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

After several attempts to clean up and reinstall Harold's 75 amp 36v rear thruster,  it's clearer done. The motor smokes (tried it without the prop installed and hanging out of the housing) and then pops its breaker. Not good.  It looks like the housing leaked for many years before I bought the sub and was a mess when I opened it up. I have all new seals for it.

There's a local outfit that could rebuild the motor. I haven't yet approached them about a price.

I'm leaning toward replacing all of the thrusters with 12v. That would also mean redoing the wiring harness as all of the thrusters are 36v and I'd be done diving this season. Simply reinstalling the 36v would be the easiest.

What would you do?

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