I used a servo hooked up directly to the clutch via a cable in the 07 QUT car (2003 R6). Work out what force and travel you need to operate your clutch, then go shopping for a servo with enough...
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I used a servo hooked up directly to the clutch via a cable in the 07 QUT car (2003 R6). Work out what force and travel you need to operate your clutch, then go shopping for a servo with enough...
Put me down for....
Bad eating habits. Forgetting to eat, then binging on shit food
Drinking. I'm either working on the car or drinking to forget about the car
Bad/no sleeping habits
I...
There's quite a few misconceptions about wiring.
Wire soldering is not ideal for any high performance or high reliability environment - race car, aircraft, etc. It is brittle and will crack and...
Nope, just correcting a "funny guy" from the other side of the world where baja doesn't exist. Carry on with the meaningful discussion. Aussie sarcasm can be dry...
Don't bother trying to run your electrical system at a loss. You'll get sick of flat batteries and run the risk of not being able to start the car at the driver change in endurance. You'll also have...
If you switch the wires, the voltage will be the negative of what you want. The sensor will still pick up the correct frequency but the phase will be all out of whack. It'll have the right number of...
Double check your VR ref/sync sensors. We had our ref VR sensor wires switched around which made our car run "retarded".
Not sure about the current draw of those ones. IMO you'd want 20C on a 5Ah to be safe.
I'd have to check the specifics here Frank, but off the top of my head the LiPo we acquired last year was a 5Ah 14.8V. It weighed in around 400-500g, around $300AUD shipped.
I don't really know...
Aside from the obvious sponsor and team exposure (which our sponsors loved), we found there were a few other advantages.
I fully believe our third placing in autocross at FSAE-A last year was due...
We have an R6. Off the top of my head it was somewhere around 180N on an arm that's maybe 4cm long.
I'd have to see if I can dig up my notes and working from last year though. It sounds very low...
Way to spill the beans.
We only use clutch for launch, so the RC servo worked well. With a pressure sensor mounted on a paddle we had full analog control over the clutch. I probably wouldn't like...
Looking at the picture, it is the same as the R6 COP. Also, I am led to believe that the YZF450 coil connectors are common to ford modular v8s.
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A brief post after a long (24+ hour) drive back home.
Congrats to UWA and RMIT for once again filling the top two spots. Well done to Monash for the third.
Thanks must go out to the event...
We (at QUTMS) had our 2nd last day of testing today. A few hours tomorrow morning final testing to double check we're good to go and then we'll hit the road around midday.
I heard (from a random...
I'm a sucker for the kind of pain that comes about from doing consecutive all-nighters.
My personal record is around 40 hours in the workshop without sleep.
Our workshop record is 51 hours.
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