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The
All Electric Houseboat U.S.
Patent 6957990 |
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The Wisdom
dock W.E.B. fleet now includes two all Electric Houseboats. They are very
popular with their customers. The customer often rents the same boat for next
year when they return to the dock. |
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These houseboats have six queen sized bedrooms with
a full bath in each one. They have
electric appliances including a separate full sized stainless steel
refrigerator and freezer. |
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They are propelled by a 100 HP 3 phase electric
motor. An inverter motor controller sets the speed from about 100 RPM to 1800
RPM in forward or reverse based on the position of the joystick on the
captains chair. This motor has constant torque at all speeds and will not
change in speed due to a changing load. Consequently it has good stopping
power. |
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The control panel in the helm is a PC computer with
a flat panel monitor. The monitor has an outline of the boat with an arrow at
the bottom or aft end of the boat that indicates the direction the out drive
is pointed. At the bow end of the boat outline is another arrow that
indicates the normal direction the bow would be headed with reference to the
out drive position and population direction. The arrows are black in forward
and blue in reverse and the bow arrow is red to indicate the bow thruster
direction. Bar graphs indicate forward and reverse thrust levels for both
population and the bow thruster. All the gauges are bar graphs on the screen.
Indicators for all the functions on the boat also are present on the screen
along with a window containing the back up camera view. The forward, reverse and steering are on the
Captains chair Joystick. The bow thruster joystick is on the consol. Both are
variable speed in both directions. |
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This is the power source for the houseboat. It is a
150KW diesel generator. It powers the boat and charges two batteries that
weigh about 6000 lb. The batteries power the inverter that supplies all the
house power including the heat pump when the generator is shut down.
This diesel engine is closed loop keel cooled with heat exchangers to heat
the hot tub and water heater. |
