Making Ride plate electric?
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I have a 2001 Calabria Pro V and the wake is pretty good but even with a ton of weight and trying different configurations, I'm still not happy with the wake. I've heard a lot of good things about making the trim tab/ride plate adjustable to really dial in the wake......... Anyone have a write up on it? I tried searching for it and people have talked about it but never really saw a write up on it. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks, Jared.
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I have a 99 that I picked up in December, have not had it out yet though. I just assumed looking at it that it was adjustable, but I investigated it last week and found it's not.
I feel a simple SS hinge in place of where it's attached to the hull would do the trick. Honestly that is what I expected to find under there anyway. |
Just remove the existing plate and bolt in a Lenco or Bennett trim tab.
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^^ this
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anyone have a preferred kit they would recommend?
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I looked into this a few years back.....there are no tabs that are the correct size. ( I have a 2002 Pro-V ) I was thinking that you could cut the current plate to about 1 inch and add a trim tab that was CLOSE, or even just using the leftover as the TAB with a stainless hinge. My issue was having it done with 1 actuator and what I would do with the holes. I had thought about getting a bracket fabbed up that would use the current holes and then mount the actuator in the center....but again never really got serious about it.
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Yeah......but I kinda like having something a bit different.
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Do you know someone that can do aluminum fabrication? Id love a setup of some. My boat is in storage, but I'm sure they are the same.
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Do they make a single LED indicator switch?
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I don't know if i'd go that far lol....but its nice to be unique.
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First, please remember that a ride plate is very different than a trim tab. All a tab can do is add drag, a ride plate acts as an extension of the running surface and can provide hook or rocker depending on how it is set up.
Our Sanger V215 has a similar plate and I have looked at ways to make it adjustable. Good old fashioned V-Drive cavitation hardware using an electric actuator would be the best. It would be a custom system, probably requiring the engine to be pulled... expensive. Arneson makes a bolt on rocker plate: http://www.arneson-industries.com/pa...ucts&id=rocker The right one of these would be cool but also over kill. With the Arneson system as inspiration I am going to have a set of mounts and rocker arms machined up that mount a pair of Lenco electric actuators next to the adjustable support arms. Will try and describe it... Transom End: Actuator and adjustable link. Plate End Rocker arm: Three holes, (actuator, ride plate, adjustable arm) Designed to use the full stroke of the actuator (2.25") to move the plate 3/8-1/2" total. A note here this is all the range I believe the V215 needs, your hull may be different. The description is making it sound complex but it is simply a class 1 lever with the plate pivot as the fulcrum... I hope to rough the system out next month. |
If you mount an appropriate size tab flush with the hull in place of the existing fixed plate, I fail to see how that will function differently in any appreciable way from that Arneson rocker plate on a wake boat application. There's nothing saying you need to or should fully deploy the tab - just tweak it to where the boat has the attitude you're looking for based on your current configuration of ballast/speed/activity.
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The plat makes such a small difference I'm not sure I would waste the time and money on it. Now upgrading your ballast, that's a different story.
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The trick is a "Plate" bends in a curve and the water stays attached to the bottom in a laminar pattern. When it stays attached it acts like an extended bottom surface and can lift the bow as well as drive it down. On out V215 I can see/feel a difference in two turns of the adjuster. At 16TPI thats 1/8 of an inch at the tab. I will take the time and manually adjust when going from surfacing to skiing. (I ski almost half the time so the difference is worth it.) On a lighter hull with a delta pad the difference is more than significant. The barefoot guys with DXII's adjust their ride plates with a straight edge and feeler guages... It is that sensitive. |
Did you ever get it all mapped out Squeezer?
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