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alright guys appointed days do you sell videos to show you how we made this
solar powered clear my brother and I just finished this project today
going to give a quick run through where we got materials what we pay for them
how everything fits together and how it functionally works
we got the canoe itself from a friend of ours for 20 bucks
so that's a pretty cheap start we picked up the morphia solar panel you see on
the right
for thirty dollars at a flea market now it puts out
14 ample power in the fall sign
we just wide that directly up to the deep cycle battery
that you see here on your left and the main reasons we did that and just cool
as hell to have a
solar-powered canoe is 1
we can go out there fishing I'll campaign
weekend wherever out remote locations and we have a power source to charge
that battery
to its gonna make that battery last longer as a won't be
discharging the battery plays much in four
her she's me three is a beast money you don't when you bring home you don't have
to plug it back in the wall
so those are the main reasons we did that just because ur it was
pretty neat now this will allow us to run
20 5 percent longer on our slowest speed now it does charge while we're running
on the water
at lower speed on the trolling motor it pulls about four aunts
so if we keep it on now while we're
out on the water with or one ampoule charge in the Sun
that allows us go to 25 percent longer or if we were to put
three more solar panels and get four for amps
added this namely literally be running off
of the sandwiches some we plan to do if we run into some more solar panels
now to hook this so account YouTube new we just put a couple bungee straps
around in her cat rate to the frame
that works pretty good and as far as hooking the battery out we use and old
bike chain
that we had a bike lock rapid on their in the event we flip the canoe over
I'm pretty sure you can see it we put the canoe over
then that batteries not going to fall out in the battery is
sealed itself in case it gets water in there we don't have to worry about that
because it is sealed now another
neat little trick I wanna let you guys know about running a
a batteries or solar any any typing this
this type of project is you don't wanna discharge
your deep cycle marine batteries more than 50 percent depth
discharge this is what causes the lead
to build up on the plates in a larger battery can no longer take a charge to
your greatly shorten the life your battery
if you do that a neat little trick I'm
how not to do that is just take a little multimeter with you
if you don't have a little charge reader
as you see I have to our multimeter in the bottom there that way doesn't matter
if we lose it and I can really be charged the battery while we're gone now
fully charged batteries about 12 points seven bolt
so I know when I get down a dead one is eleven point five bolt
so I know when I get down about twelve point one bolt I'm at
50 percent depth chart fifty percent total
charge has been used mean fifty percent is still remaining so that means we
gotta stop then we gonna charge a backup just louts in this on
before we go on so we don't pulling heavy Tehran that battery
and it hooks and write to this mean coda trolling motor
that we got I we got back for free from
our mother actually gave it to a gift to my brother
and it works we took it out today exploded the prop
I think we hit a rock
but it does work and we're screwed on this nice little
light canoe and thats
pretty much all we did we just hook the solar panel up to the battery
on 17 terminals and hook the trolling motor
up to the battery on the other set terminals
and that it now we got a solar-powered canoe we can take down the middle
nowhere
and we didn't have much cost total and we threw this together real quick
so I just want to say thanks for watching from any ideas you have that we
could add to this or making me to project we really appreciate it thanks
and have a good one