More information will be added as soon as it is received from each team.
Battery Team:
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Finish repairing the spare battery, which includes soldering two safety circuits, soldering positive and negative leads, and building a Plexiglas case.
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Check each of the batteries and make sure all the safety circuits work, and all batteries are operational for the 100 mile drive.
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Continue helping out with the thermal testing of the new carbon blocks.
Business Team:
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To report on the economics of the hydrogen economy, including A) cost of production, storage, and distribution, and B) detailed design of hydrogen production with and without use of fossil fuels.
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Cost analysis of hybrid test vehicle.
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Maintaining good relationship with sponsors.
Hybrid Team:
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Obtain necessary data from fuel cell and batteries, including voltage, current, and response time
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Design a charging system for the batteries that incorporates the fuel cell as the main source of power
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Build the designed circuit to charge the batteries
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Revise current design on hybrid system to incorporate new charging system, as well as data obtained from testing
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Build working hybrid system that allows cart to use fuel cell as primary source of power, and incorporates batteries for additional power. If time allows.
Website Team:
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Add a news applet which reads from a file, which is accessible by all team members to add findings, important events, and other news.
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Obtain domain address for IPRO 304 project (e.g. www.ipro304.com)
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