You are currently browsing the Solarcrawler Blog weblog archives for July, 2010.
- 4. August 2010: Request for SPOT hack materials
- 29. July 2010: Moving to an 8 volt system
- 20. July 2010: Kiddie Pool Test
- 3. June 2010: Acrylic top
- 27. May 2010: Back at it
- 26. April 2010: Back on-line
- 6. September 2009: 23 grams of thrust, baby!
- 3. September 2009: haven't written in a while
- 3. September 2009:
- 11. August 2009: Course #1 Successfully Completed!!
Archive for July 2010
Moving to an 8 volt system
29. July 2010 by gmoney.
Sean’s recent speed trials have us thinking the motors will run more efficiently with an 8 volt system. Since this won’t be an issue with the rest of the electronics (we already use a voltage regulator), and not a problem for the PV system (we can charge at 10.8 volts with 3 parallel sets of 3 panels in series), the decision is made. The keel will now contain 5 lead acid, 8 volt, 3.2 AH, batteries from our friends at batterydirect.com
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Kiddie Pool Test
20. July 2010 by Sean.
Ok, we’ve got all the pieces talking to one another and a nice stable boat. Tomorrow is our speed test so I thought we should wet test it first. The motor speed took a bit of adjusting.
For those of you who use Google Earth, you can see the Elk Lake Course
here.
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