Sunday, June 28, 2009

Day 4

Today we tested it with the other member of our team who was about 120 miles away. We took the video that is on the website home page. We talked about how we were going to fix the torque problem and decided that we are going to try replacing the resistors. We know that the motors provide plenty of torque when they can draw as much as they want, but our motor controllers have a cap one them. Because we don't want to spend anymore money (its $100-120 for higher rated motor controllers), we are going to try putting in something like 1/2 ohm 15 watt. Right now we have 2 ohms of resistance. We think that will help a little, but we're not sure. We're going to try to get the maximum draw we can with those controllers. Any ideas?

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