Monday, November 12, 2018

This week was an exceptionally interesting week. All of the teams met with Dr. Furman who had some information that he disclosed that would affect all of Spartan Superway. Though it affects every team, we as a whole will continue to move forward and try out best. In terms of our project, the integration team has continued to focus on improving the design and streamlining the process. We talked to the lead of the wayside power team about moving the super caps and batteries. The move hinges on the idea of having a drive bogie that is reliant on the slave bogie. Though this drive bogie will be reliant on the slave bogie, we will not be making any design changes as the drive bogie design will still be used as a base model. The independent drive bogies will also have the chance to operate as rescue bogies in the changes that the system breaks down somewhere on the track. The only difference in these bogies is that the rescue bogie will have a carriage for its own supercapacitors. Ultimately the system still becomes reliant on the batteries that the slave bogie will be carrying.

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