All right so as promised, here's the first look of the Regulator 34 with Triple Verado 400's running Enertia Eco 20 props. We still have some way to go, but not a bad first run out of the gate. Have some questions? let us know.
Hey, what's going on, everybody? It is Sully. We are back on our Regulator 34 project. We've gone ahead. We've got our Optimus system all dialed in, as you saw in a previous video. So that means we've got our position, our heading hold. We've got our our joystick steering. We've got all of that stuff all dialed in. So now we're actually going to go out onto the water and we can do some sea trials. Right now we've got the like I said, we've got the Verado 400. It's back there. We're sitting in about three quarters of a tank of fuel. Pretty nice weather out there actually today. And we're turning Enertia 20 pitch three blade props on that. So what we're going to do is we go out, we get some baseline numbers, put it through the paces, run it both ways so we can get a baseline and start to figure out what this boat is gonna need for props. I think that's going to give us a good baseline. I'm betting we're probably going to want a four blade on here, probably going to go down a pitch or two. We'll get out in the water. Let's check it out. Let's see what's going on and let's get away from the dock and we'll go from there. All right, guys. So we are out on the water right now. Like I said, we're going to be running the Enertia 20 pitch props, they're a three blade. We're going to do two runs. First run up against the current here on the river. So let's go see what this thing can do. Guys, check it out. And this is with no active trim. Here we go. We're going to punch it up. Here we are full tuck and we are doing 4600 RPMs. We're seeing 43 miles an hour with that now we go ahead and we bring that trim up. Really start fighting that current here. All right. We saw about 55 on that one there. So on that one, I think we saw about 5600 5700. So we're about a thousand RPMs off from where we should be for manufacturers rated specs. Now, to be fair, we are going against a pretty strong end current. So we'll go ahead. We're going to whip the boat around here and we're going to try going the other way. We're going to see what kind of numbers we can get out of it. And again, we go through all of this so we can figure out what our baseline needs to be so we can start making some tweaks. Do we need to bring the motors up? Do we need to maybe go down a pitch, maybe add a blade, go to a four blade? That's kind of what we have to do when we're going through all this dialing in and tuning process. It's not just as simple as throwing a motor on. Send it out the door. Especially when we get something as custom as these Verado 400s on a Regulator 34. Like I said, nobody's reached out to me yet. I think we're still the first ones to put Verado 400s on the back of a 34. So let's go spin this thing around and see what we can get going the other way. All right, guys. So we're going to go ahead. We're going to whip this thing around. Like I said we've got some fast water going the other way I think here. So should give us a little better top end. But again, we get some baseline numbers here and kind of see what we've got going. It should also be noted we're not using the active trim at this point in time. We're just trying to get some raw data numbers between fuel burn and speed. So we'll throttle down a little bit. Also should be noted, we're running with the Seakeeper, so staying nice and steady while we're going doing all this stuff. So here we go, guys. We're going to punch it up. Go 4440 4500 full talk, 48 miles an hour. 49 miles an hour, still climbing. Now we're going to trim it up. 59 miles an hour. 5700. There's 60. And we're running out of runway. All right. So depending on which G.P.S. antenna we're looking at on our Merc display here, I saw 63 miles an hour on a Raymarine over here we're showing a 61.2, but we're still coming up about a thousand rpm shy and where we want to be. So we definitely know that we're a little over propped right now. Also, we're running a little bit of old fuel fuel in here's about a year old. We've done some fuel additives to try to help give us a better chance at that. But this is just some of the trials and tribulations we have to go through when dialing in these type of boats. You have to go do these runs, have the data, log everything here, and make sure that we can then put it into the spreadsheet, put it in the prompt calculator, spits out a number on the back end for us. So that's it. That's the first test run Enertia twenties. We've got a two way run there. We saw 63 or 61 depending on what GPS we're looking at and we're getting closer to dialing it in. I think we still got about four or five more miles an hour to get out of the old girl and we're going to get some wheels here, put it on there. And as soon as we do, you're going to see another episode of that.
5 сен 2024
