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Tybo

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  1. Most multi meters only can handle a amperage draw of 10 amps.

    The starter draw 60 amps and a trolling motor is 30 to 40 amps on full.

     

    If you tried to check the amperage straight across your battery, You would

    draw the full amperage that the battery is holding at the time.Blowing the

    fuse and or burning up the resistor in your meter.

    So using voltage as a guide. A good battery will not drop under 12.4 volts when drawing

    the amperage that you need.

    This is why you never draw the amperage from you deep cycle below 2/3.

    It will cause the battery to heat up and cause sulfating.

     

    Voltage just sits in the wire until the amperage is commanded to push the voltage,

    creating a current.

     

    Gravity testers are nice.But are only accurate if you wash them out with distilled water after each use.

    Some residue will be left behind, giving you a false reading with the next use.

  2. In the old carb days, you could poor all most any thing down their and

    get more horse power.( my two favorites where glycol and wind shield washer,

    both have alcohol)

     

    Eg:So you get more horse power 400hp which creates more toque 760lbs which intern at a

    speed of a 100kph at 2000rpms(using my truck)their is more toque to the pavement

    which in turn will make the engine work less as to a stock 360hp and 640lbs. engine

    that is running at a higher rpm.Making the higher hp engine more fuel efferent.

     

    Now you don't have a carb. So you need a product that will attach to you fuel rail.

     

    Gasoline already has water in it to help engines to get better gas mileage, also makes the

    engine run hotter so the impurities of the gas wont carbon up your engine, hence a cleaner running

    engine.

     

    Why bother. As the market dictates it the car companies will come out with engines that will

    have 60 then 70 mpg and so on and fart Daisey for emissions.

  3. Voltages of a battery means very little.

     

    It's all about amperage.

     

    To check a battery you have to put it under load.

     

    to check the the trolling motor battery. Turn your trolling motor to high.

    the voltage of the battery should drop no lower the 12.4 volts on a fully charge battery.

    To check cranking battery turn on all eclectic components, hit your kill switch.

    then give the engine a quick turn while testing. the battery should not under 12.4 volts.

     

    If you don't like this way of testing. Get your self a load tester.

  4. I'm one of the cheapest dude's you will ever meet.

    I would not even think of tipping the owner/ operator.

    They have already calculated there cost to make a profit.

    As for the deck hand I have and will tip.

     

    Back in the 80's I had a friend that ran a charter on lake O.

    From time to time, he would take me out for free and I still tipped

    the deck hand.

  5. Their is only a couple of reasons why rivets would pull out like that

     

    The first and foremost is that the two pieces that are held together are moving in two

    different direction.

     

    Aluminum boats flex alot.But how they are desiged, is so the aluminum sheet flexs

    betweem the riveted hard points.

    Leaving the alloy lax to be able to asorb shock while preventing stress on hard points.

    If this happens at hard points(on the transom,where the transom is attatchted to the boat,where

    the the hull is riveted to the support struts,ribbing.)It is duo mostly that the rivets where not seated tight

    or poor design.

     

    If this happens on rivets that hold things into the boat. Such as floors and casting decks.

    You are lucky the boat didn't snap in two.

  6. There is no true theory on hp to thrust.

     

    HP= torque

    Trust=propulsion

     

    Thier is a way to get close though.

     

    You need to know how much hp's and torque there is at the prop shaft and

    the rpms. from this you can convert it in to kilowatts. Then from kws you

    can convert to thust.

  7. Raybesto is very good brake,Just put a set on Joey's van.

     

    I use ceramics on the truck.Great stopping but very hard on the disc's

    Ceramics are costly though.

     

    At work we only use Ray's. It a different style braking system, but we are

    also trying to stop 300.000 lbs.

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