<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div>Hi Psubbers</div><div>I've been thinking about motor compensation options.</div><div>Any thoughts about whether this idea may have any merits?.....</div><div>Mount a brushless motor vertically on an outboard motor lower unit gear case</div><div>& air compensate it.</div><div>The length of the vertical drive shaft from the motor to the gear case gives</div><div>plenty of margin of error for the air compensation system before any water</div><div>could make its way to the motor.</div><div>The gearing already exists for the higher speed of the brushless motor, & although</div><div>there is an energy loss through the gearing there would be some savings in </div><div>that the motor is not directly in the path of the propellor thrust.</div><div>A can would need to be made around the
motor & sealed on to the lower unit.</div><div>Regards Alan</div><div><img src="https://d2t1xqejof9utc.cloudfront.net/screenshots/pics/e6f11f33caa2db181948970f07b80b3d/medium.JPG"><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>