ELB: The motors are in the process of getting internal Hall effect sensors. The method seems to be working well, so I plan on doing it to all of them, reassembling temporarily with the semi-busted polycarbonate hubcaps, testing/calibrating, then replacing the hubcaps with aluminum ones. The aluminum stock is in, so I should be able to start machining those soon.
eXKateCD: It is now the eXKateDB (exkate drill batteries). Let me explain. Someone (no idea who) came into the lab, saw it under the desk, probably tried to play with it, and left the Lipos plugged in. This drained the ENTIRE pack down to about 1V...yeah, Lipos don't like that; they're dead.
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| Wall of Shame. |
So while we wait for $160 worth of new batteries to come, I rigged this up:
2 18V drill batteries in series. Not pretty, but no noticeable power loss, which is nice. Plus, we don't have to worry about these being drained all the way down (NiCD's actually like that). Our plan to prevent this from happening again is to have a keyed battery selector and hiding the key. I never wanted to have to do the 4 hours worth of soldering, etc. that it took to put the original Lipos in again, so I definitely don't want to have to do it a third time.
That's all for now.
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