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General Category => Electric Boat Conversions => Topic started by: Sventropy on October 24, 2023, 10:10:22 PM

Title: VEC500 regen on a sailboat? Anyone gotten it to work yet?
Post by: Sventropy on October 24, 2023, 10:10:22 PM

Anyone gotten the regenerative breaking to work on their boat yet? I see a few folks have installed systems, what parameters are you using and what are your results? Thanks.

Title: Re: VEC500 regen on a sailboat? Anyone gotten it to work yet?
Post by: Fabio on February 14, 2024, 09:52:06 PM

i'm trying to figure it out....

Title: Re: VEC500 regen on a sailboat? Anyone gotten it to work yet?
Post by: Defuzo on March 28, 2024, 02:46:06 AM

A Youtuber (The Digital Mermaid) seams to have solved it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN1rcPOXi2w

(I used to have a sailboat myself, but had a rigging failure)

Title: Re: VEC500 regen on a sailboat? Anyone gotten it to work yet?
Post by: Bikemad on March 31, 2024, 09:12:43 PM

The controller in that video is a Kelly KLS-72100N controller that supports variable regen, but I seem to recall that the VEC500 controller does not support variable regen.

Regen on the VEC controller is either On or Off and should engage when the brake switch contacts are closed, and disengage when the contacts are open.

Alan