19th July Training session.
The Sunday training & development session started with some minor, however, very disruptive electrical repairs (one and a half hours) that was found to be poor wire joining technique at the Pedalec sensor. This was found after someone who didn’t realise that the electric motor actually makes a big difference ! ... did 5 laps and then complained it was hard (???) (and the motor was apparently, verry ... verry ... quiet ...)
After working through logical trouble-shooting and fault-finding under AAEV's guidance, we managed to identify and resolve the fault. We continued conditioning our test & evaluation battery sets, which we started 3 weeks ago, late June.
While that was happening some of the other team members got to get some practice on two of the other recumbent bikes (HPV) that the school has. The day ended with two races, and I won one of them!!! , admittedly that’s because I was in the quicker of the two bikes and it is very hard to overtake anyone once they are in front of you :)
On Wednesday the 29th of July we had an Electrician (Tim, Liam's dad) come in to supervise us in going through to re-do, clean up and (permanently) fix up our wiring loom in the bike ... so that should hopefully stop any intermittent electrical issues from happening again.
Now that we've professionally and thoroughly installed a permanent, secured, insulated bike 'loom' (wiring) we've also now fitted our E-ABS Brake Levers, with inbuilt micro-switches.
We also finished the re-manufacturing of our battery boxes primarily for safety-handling, 'hot-swap' and for securely fitting into our frame ... we also installed our inline 'fast-blow' fuses and power-charge plugs, ready for the final battery fit-out.
Team member 'Brains'(James)(Blue Thunder pilot)
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