How does the cheap chinese electric outboard motor fare pushing against a F4/F5 Wind ?

Another video of the Max 350 Chinese Outboard From Aliexpress. The wind was blowing from 17kt -30kt so F4/F5 roughly . It is demonstrated that we could go into the wind from as low as 240watts in the less exposed areas . Waves do slow you down but I was still able to make good progress against it at full power. THe total distance travelled was 2.2NM and used about 40% . Full power was around 30amps so around 1.5KW max . THe battery seems to be a limiting factor due to thin wires and less current = lot longer range. Have another battery on order to run in parralel with diodes so that should allow less current to be drawn from each battery across the thin wires. POssibly a job for future is to rewire to the BMS with chunkier wires. I am currently charging the battery from solar and the 300w recovers a normal days load within a day. I have picked up my new boat, a Jaguar 21 and hopefully ready to launch in a few weeks, that will give me some new testing opportunities , it weighs over a ton . I also have the 3kw Motor to test when the larger batteries arrive so subscribe to check out progress.
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50ah 48v Battery (XT60 connector)
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Max350 (2kw) Outboard
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Solar Charging Battery
400w Step up MPPT
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Dokio 300w Folding Solar Panel
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