I found a powerpod, not the ones I was thinking about, turns out I had used them on the kgv battleship, not my nicest installation, but it does work, I tested it without finishing it, Surprised how much lead went in to get it to the waterline. Relatively anyway, its a narrow model. I could fit a few of my recycled bosch cells in it for a few days worth of sailing 😁
The powerpod is a one off, from a tiny twin motored jetski I got on holiday, great little toy, until I dropped it about a foot up beside the bath, snapping motor shaft off flush with the front of the motor, fun over. Now, after 10 years in a box, its going to be perfect. The board in my donor car had a speaker blasting out race car noises and reversing bleeper, wont be needing that! So thats been desoldered and stuck in a box. Lol. The steering will probably have to use much of what is there to function properly, but it hasnt much throw or strength. How much will a half inch square rudder take? I did think of turning the pod, but I honestly dont think the steering has the power to move and hold against the thrust of the pod. With a rudder, I think I should be ok, I can increase it in various ways once I get some testing and measuring done. I havent opened the steering unit up yet, I dont really want to disturb the wires, yes there are wires, where's me magnifying glass..... Solder them, eh, no, can hardly see them😁 so they will stay attached to the board, pretty sure the wires are plenty to reach most places on a 6 inch boat. Just need to be super careful handling them/it.
I am looking forward to this project, I was thinking it will be mostly for the bath, due to the restrictions at the moment, but I noticed it is 2.4ghz so it may prove to have longer range than expected. I will test that later.
I was going to call it the SIT
Self Isolation Tug 😁😁😁 its also the position from which you operate it 😀