Electrical team update: sweepers, testing and so much to do
It’s the end of semester, and a pretty good time to re-cap on some of the things we’ve been up to in the Electrical Team. There’s also so much for us to do over summer, and I hope this post will mark the start of regular updates on our progress. Irving has been busy finalising [...]
Race Day 2 – Monday
Overall Progress Off at 8:03am, 3 minutes late, we sped off from camp without a snag. We covered around 600km, over 100km more than yesterday. Throughout the day radio protocol was tight, the fleet was safe and strategy performed well. The array damage was tolerable, and we managed to gain 30 minutes on MIT. They [...]
Race Day 1 – Sunday
Summary We started off without a hitch, so much so we decided to take a nap about 2 hours in just to give some of the other teams a fighting chance. In reality we stopped for a driver change and to fix up the telemetry data, which got knocked out. We managed to gain back [...]
Better Know a World Solar Challenge: The Fleet
We have 6 cars in the Sunswift fleet, who are all assigned to UHF channel 14. Their names and roles are as follows (and travel southbound in this order): Scout aka ‘The Gopher’ Scout is responsible for ‘scouting’ ahead of the fleet for road obstacles and potential overtaking manoeuvres. Scout also tends to floor it [...]
…And we’re back!
Good day ladies and gentlemen, Dan here for an update on our progress. I’ve taken over the helm of web updates so you’ll be hearing from me a lot during the next couple of days. Before I start this decidedly overdue update, I’d like really like to apologize for the media blackout. As you can [...]
