Mercury 6hp Fourstroke WOT fuel....

[Hightower]

...consumption.

Anyone know what it is?

[BogMonster]

Working hard as an aux or on a small tender? I don't think they reach anywhere near max revs when they are pushing a rib along as an aux.

Not exactly what you wanted but I was motoring on my Merc 4hp aux for a while the other day (I use about 3/4 throttle as the rest just seems to add noise rather than speed) and took a very rough observation of fuel use for future reference, it used about 1/2 of the approx 1L tank in about 20 min doing about 4 knots. I reckoned a full tank would give roughly 45min endurance pushing the Vipermax.

Must carry my 12L portable tank more often...

[squiddy]

Originally Posted by Hightower

...consumption.

Anyone know what it is?

I have the same engine, i believe made by tohatsu???

Here are NISSAN/TOHATSU consumption charts:

Nissan Marine Outboards - Authorized Distributor Offering Boat Motor Products, Technical Information, & Dealer Locations for the U.S. & Canada."

For a merc 6 at WOT you are looking at about 2L/hour at 5500 revs.

My 20hp twatshzu burns 6.2 l/hour at WOT, apparently. This is a lot when you pay £1.50 per L on the west coast of Scotland!

[Hightower]

Originally Posted by squiddy

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My 20hp twatshzu burns 6.2 l/hour at WOT, apparently. This is a lot when you pay £1.50 per L on the west coast of Scotland!

Would you like to borrow my SIB's bigger brother? Burns 65l/h at WOT

[Hightower]

Originally Posted by BogMonster

Working hard as an aux or on a small tender? I don't think they reach anywhere near max revs when they are pushing a rib along as an aux.

It'll be on the tender Steve. I was wanting worst case sernario and was wondering roughly how much time I could spend on the water for a given amount of fuel.

[squiddy]

Originally Posted by Hightower

Would you like to borrow my SIB's bigger brother? Burns 65l/h at WOT

Oh lordy!


Would love to - assuming, of course, that it comes with free petrol vouchers???? Is that correct??

Kind of happy i only have a 3.8M sib and a 20hp engine!

[Turbodiesel]

Approx 1.6 ltrs an hour at wide open throttle.

[Hightower]

Thanks TD

[gotchiguy]

Originally Posted by Hightower

Would you like to borrow my SIB's bigger brother? Burns 65l/h at WOT

Very surprised at that! At WOT we burn over 100lph certifiable by a number of members on here

65lph would be a normal heavy load high(er) speed cruise figure but of course that doesn't tell the whole economy story.

[Hightower]

Originally Posted by gotchiguy

Very surprised at that! At WOT we burn over 100lph certifiable by a number of members on here

65lph would be a normal heavy load high(er) speed cruise figure but of course that doesn't tell the whole economy story.

And what size of outboard do you have sitting on the transom of your Vipermax?