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Richard Casady

On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:02:53 -0400, wrote:

I guesstimated
that it might barely compete with a 2 HP 2-stroke at best. That would
be running it at full power which gave you about an hour or less of
runtime.

You do realize that two horse is about 125 amps at 12 volts. I HP is
745 watts or 550 foot pounds/second. Assuming you are good to your
battery and discharge it down to 50%, you will need the biggest
battery made to run it for an hour. That is, a hundred fifty pound
battery. No way.

Casady