Project Z update October 28, 2010

The beginning of the new year has been a busy one. The past summer had me doing summer school and helping my wife, Jill, recover from hip replacement surgery. So, we have not worked on the car until the beginning of the school year. So far, we are working on the battery racks and I am working with a friend, Matthew, who is a welder by trade, to build the racks and supports for the motor.

Students have built 16 cardboard mock up batteries to simulate where we will place those big suckers! 16 batteries is lots of batteries!

We have begun to layout the high voltage system. Part of the anxiety about it was looking at the amazing job that Operation Z did their car. However, after looking at the photos, we are saving lots of problems in not having air conditioning. More room and it is not that hard to develop the high voltage system. The 12 volt system will be more problematic, but I think we are up to it.

Lots to do but we are on our way.