So this is our Winston solar car we
built this to race against 25 other
teams last July. Greensters is brought
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school serves a unique student
population it allows them to blossom and
grow. They are the engineers. They are
designing from start to finish a solar
car; building it modifying it to driving it.
It's a really growing field, it's the
kind of field that they're going to be a
lot more jobs in in the future. This is
our solar array we have four panels.
These rims were custom made by the MIT
team from 2003. This big obvious box here
is the motor controller which controls
the speed of the motor via voltage
these are the power controllers which
regulate the power from the solar panels
and convert them to 48 volts for the
battery. Everyone in your team is working
together to get this common purpose of
building this car. We have special
harnesses like a five-point harness a
battery spill kit we have a special fire
extinguisher. We're implementing agile
product management and what that
essentially is is a way to streamline
and really organize the whole
engineering process and production
process for a car. We essentially ripped
out every last bit of circuitry in it
except a couple of things that so it
emits constant 12 volts.
50 miles per hour is the highest feeding
to go if we want to completely use all
the power some of the problems we ran
into is that the brakes that we have
they seem to drag a lot because
originally we had two calipers on each
wheel but right now we only have two
calipers on each front wheels. Energy
companies they know that Solar is
something that they're going to have to
get on board with or else they're going
to go out of business it's just not
something
just keep drilling up oil for the rest
of time there's just not enough of it.
For students who are thinking about getting
involved in a solar team,  this is all
about practical engineering and actually
working on something. Like you can learn
something in books and for research
online but you don't actually know how
to apply that in real life. If you're
interested in engineering interested
technology interested in science it's
seriously worth it it's incredibly
rewarding it's so fun to do. We are the
next generation to work with us if we
know how to work it with it in high
school well we're going to be, you
know we're gonna be masters with it
whenever we get into our careers type
of deal.
