beachbum29
Guru
What do you think about them?
We were looking at them today & it seems to be a nice setup.
We were looking at them today & it seems to be a nice setup.
According to the brochure at 3000 rpm a 10 gal tank of fuel will last 25 hrs.
I'm thinking 1 tank of fuel would be all you need to carry.
A 16.5 oz camping bottle lasts 2.5 hrs.
Healhustler, If you want to play with one, you can borrow my 2.5 for a few days.
The 9.9 won't accept the little bottles, it has to run on a separate tank.
If any of you guys buy one, have the dealer start it for you and show you how to bleed the air out of the system. It's real easy and you may never need to do it after the first start but it isn't in the owners manual. The dealer should also set the idle for you. The last couple I sold idled too fast out of the box. Again very easy to do.
If you want to buy one, ask for a quote from the dealer. You'll probably get a better price than if you order it off the internet. Lehr has a minimum advertised price that we all have to stick to. That doesn't mean we can't sell it for less.
According to the brochure at 3000 rpm a 10 gal tank of fuel will last 25 hrs.
I'm thinking 1 tank of fuel would be all you need to carry.
A 16.5 oz camping bottle lasts 2.5 hrs.
Umm.... somehow this math does not add up.
or my mental ratio calculate is broken
Beachbum, I'm in Miami, come on down!
You missed the correction;
10lb tank not gallon
Your are right I did, thanks.
Now it works
I see the price of these coming down in the future, if they go to E15 fuel then these will be very popular and in larger HP ratings for marine use.
We considered the 9.9 recently, but after doing the fuel calculations decided to get a Yamaha instead, which was within $20 of the Lehr. Our calcs suggested that a 5 HP Lehr would make sense from a fuel burn/storage perspective, but we needed the larger size.
Our dealer indicated that the Lehr is actually primarily made of Yamaha components, which I thought interesting.
That wouldn't surprise me. You can buy propane conversion kits for many applications.
True, but if you've looked at the Lehr, you gotta admit that it is tied together in a very nice, neat, compact package. I sure like the idea of grabbing a spare 16.5 oz bottle and heading for the dinghy dock. If I didn't have a good 9.9 Merc now, I'd probably have bought one from Hopcar at the Miami Boat Show.
Hopcar....I might take you up on your offer. A 2.5 should do anything we want to do with local cruising and the loop. For the islands, we'd probably go with a bigger dinghy and 15 hp. I've got a spare dinghy sitting on the dock now....could hook it up there for a test.
Umm.... somehow this math does not add up.
or my mental ratio calculator is broken
10 X 2.5 = 25
16.5oz X 10 = 165oz
1 gal is 132 oz
how many OZ is in a 10gal tank of propane?
can you refill from a larger tank to the boat tank?
like the unlimited storing of propane however
I sure like the idea of grabbing a spare 16.5 oz bottle and heading for the dinghy dock.
Even better is the idea of taking the cylinder with you to increase the chances of your dink being at the dock when you return .