So it begins...... Battery spot welder

[sternwake]

Or 18650's

I'm nearly there.

Anyone else?

I've got an E skateboard ordered.
Cheapo starter unit. 
106$ delivered.
'en route'
. 350 watt motor. 
24v,2200mah battery
10mph/16kph claimed max speed.
 8 mile claimed range 
*For 1, 170Lb/77 KG rider.

quote unquote har har.....

   

It will however fit in the interior  Dry hatch of my used, but newly acquired, Sit on top Kayak.

There is a private,
 riff raff free,
 well,
 before me, 

Kayak launch
 A mile away, paved roads.
Inter coastal waterway. 
design and build kayak trolley, pull with E Skate, bobs your uncle.



I expect theEskate Eprovided  battery pack to use marginal quality  low capacity Medium CDR 
, poorly matched 18650 Cells.

I expect little care was used to assemble them.
I expect the power supply/'charger' to deliver a questionable max  charge voltage .

I suspect the BMS is inaccurate and easily fooled, and not really safe.

I suspect I can greatly improve the battery, and increase range via higher capacity  high quality cells , High CDR cells which can deliver higher voltage, for longer.

I expect  Electronic speed control  and electric motor Heatsinking, and wiring resistance  from and to, can be vastly improved

I could very well be wrong.

I have not been researching  trolling motors, or 'thrusters' and have no intentions of forcing a displacement hull, to plane.
LIAR!

But maximum displacement speed might be around 12mph, with 8mph achieved, using 1/4 the power. I think I can hold 2.5 to 3.5mph on paddle power alone.
  Up until  4 weeks ago ive never even  paddled a kayak, but it felt so natural and easy, and fast,  i Bought it from my cousin.


But thrusters no importa pronto.

I just want a longer, larger paddle for now, as The one which came with my kayak, never expected a Neanderthal and his  Nutjob sheepdog to become the region's most avid Cormorant hunters.  

The Paddle is too short, and too small.
Too much motor, too little prop.

That's what she said!



Well, Cormorants, gulls, pelicans, get  vigorously barked at, not really hunted..
Ospreys, she is mute.
It is extremely therapeutic.  Till it is not.
Fine Line.

After I become hoarse from barking, 
Fiona carries on, and on, and on.
please shut up!!!!!

Grrrrrrrrr!
 
Bonding traction pads to polypropylene is the first obstacle.
woof woof!
 SPLASH!

No bull sharks here.

Thin Sapele platform  perch grid, fore and aft, me thinks.
all hail pad eyes and attachment points

The kayak has so much wasted space inside.....
So much that js   currently  inaccessable, till the  waTerproof hatches and fishing pole holders
arrive.

Im as keen to buildout the KaYak, as I waS for my van.


I can fit several Surfboads in the ceiling of my van unobtrusively, but the single Kayak just refuses to  comfortably  comply , so far.
On top will destroy solar Harvest.

Oh well, Van ain't registered,  nor insured yet, anyway.
72 miles since  JaNuary, Zero miles since May.

But the paperwork to do so is in hand.
But My DMV gumption, is lacking.


Anyway, this project joins many others, but this project's completion has mental and physical  health ramifications unlike the others, and I made Fiona a promise when I Adopted her that I intend to keep.
she loves it.
once a week is Six times too few.

 Just beginning to shop battery spot welders. 
I'm a ways  away from actually ordering anything else.