I will explain why we need an ESC to let a brushless motor spin. Brushed DC motors, thats the ordenary motor you may know, has only 2 wires, you connect them to the positive and negative pole of the power source and the motor starts spinning. Simple. ...
High efficent brushless pumps use high tech rare earth magnets and are energy efficent.
prototype brushless pump, we developed a highly efficent pump. Conventional brushed pumps fail fast because they suffer high wear. Our new brushless pump uses high tech rare earth magnets and are energy efficent. On boats we run many pumps, like fr ...
Upgrading our onboard refrigeration
This project came up when we realized that the main energy draw from our service batteries was used to keep the beer cold. We noticed that the freezer refrigeration compressor was working 24 hours a day without stoping at any point. At that time we w ...
Vela Nautica goes Lithium Episode 2
I know, I know, this Episode is a bit dry. It´s about boat works again. But we got many requests for more detailed description about the setup of our Lithium batteries. That power Vela Nautica and provide electric comfort even when we anchor.So its more ...
SAILING IN THE EYE OF THE STORM | 28 HOURS ROUGH SAILING | SV VELA NAUTICA
Finally! Vela Nautica is back from her refit and in top condition for the next sailing season. When we left our anchorage at Isla Culatra, close to Faro / Portugal, we knew there is a cold front passing by. This atlantic cold front was supposed to spe ...
PowerBMS, best ship and RV BMS for LiFePo or LiPo batteries.
Homescreen of PowerBMS Our newly developed BMS system is setUp to be used on boats or in RV´s. The power BMS Controller is full configurable to your needs.Power BMS will adapt to your specific batterie by its calibration options.You can setup all ...
Vela Nautica goes lithium
We are going to switch Vela Nautica to lithium power! There are some very obvious points that convinced us to switch Vela Nautica to lithium power and abandon our old lead acid batterie system. charging efficency is near 100%significant reduction o ...
B&G Forward Scan sonar sensor as navigational upgrade
Beside many other upgrades Vela Nautica gets an additional Forward Scan sonar sensor installed in this refit. While we waited for the production of our sternarch. We stayed now much longer on the hard than originaly planned, we used the time to gi ...
Visit welding workshop
finaly our sternarch project comes close to its end. Today, Bruno our welder, called and asked us to join him in his workshop to discuss final aspects of the sternarch design. After many month of waiting and delays we got something to lay our hand ...
Sternarch 1st planning, video conference with engineer Frank in Germany
Hi Guys, NOW there is a new extended version of the Video! at this time we are in hype development of an sternarch concept that does not mutulate Vela Nautica. The piont is to mount Solarpannels and a Silentwind windgenerator on our stern to charge the up ...