Special price on Torqeedo electric motors

[KTP]

Cool, nice to know both batteries were at the same level.

My battery is up to 55% so I am about to do a test run in a 55 gal clean garbage container just to see what she will do at low speeds.

The fifth picture down you posted shows a bit of what I was talking about. The orange plastic/rubber cap thing doesn't fit tightly on the aluminum taper extrusion shaft. A similar situation at the other end near the motor, at least on mine. I don't think this is a problem, it may even be intended. They probably don't want to retain water inside the aluminum extrusion if it is just meant for hydrodynamic flow and not for insulating the wires or supporting the motor. I can grasp the aluminum extrusion and wobble it back and forth ever so slightly in relation to the motor and the upper control housing, but the motor is connected to the upper control housing inside that extrusion with something much more rigid. Must be a metal or fiberglass shaft in there.

It looks high quality overall to me.

 

[baz]

After 1 hour the charge level went from 13% to 21%. Thus I would expect 100% to take another 10 hours to be reached.

Thus if battery at 0% a full charge would take some 12.5 hours.

 

[KTP]

well I was all ready to do a test run but then I read in the manual that the first time you charge the battery you should charge all the way to 100% to calibrate the charge remaining meter. I guess I will follow the instructions and wait for a full charge...sigh.

 

[baz]

Cool, nice to know both batteries were at the same level.

My battery is up to 55% so I am about to do a test run in a 55 gal clean garbage container just to see what she will do at low speeds.
...snip...

How on earth did you get to 55% so quickly. I've been charging battery from its 13% starting point for 4.5 hours and charge level is now at 48%.

 

[baz]

There are two things that are bothering me at this time...

1. My motor does not have the attached protective flap for the battery's charge-socket. I'm assuming I'll have to Email Torqeedo for advice about this.

2. The small plastic fixing bolt (to fix the steering) -- cannot figure out where this should be inserted. There are no instructions that I can find in the Operating Manual that describes how this bolt is to be used.

[Edit]
OK -- I finally figured out where and how the small plastic fixing bolt is used. It is used for "fixing the steering". 😉 This is explained in just one place in the Operations Manual -- page 15. The bolt is optional for fixing the steering.

 

[SlackwaterJack]

Any chance we can start a new thread on this topic...it's come a long way from a "special price" to where it is now.

just a friendly reminder to make it easier to search the site for Torqueedo info in the future.