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The Final Countdown

The final countdown for the project presentation is here. The date is June 5th. that gives us 10 days to complete. Now, we have to compete against time.

Wish us all the best.

Update!!!

It been over a month that we have updated the blog.

We were going thru a time of difficulties. Firstly, we had a problem with the financing. We had cut down ou budget drastically due to various reasons. This isn't fair playground for us. While motor controllers cost aroun 6K in the international market, it costs nearly 20K in our domestic market. It isnt something we could afford. So we have to do without the controller!!! And we didn't have an alternative plan of actions.

The internet is a wondeful invention. We contacted some people over the net. And they were real quick in their response. They are mostly hobbyists and engineers. Worth mentioning are Gav Master from Surat, Prasad from the UK, Jon from  the US etc. Now we are on track of bulidin our own simple controller using either PWM or ADC. The finer details haven't been made yet. We'll keep u posted on the developments regularly. U can also help us with ur suggestions in this area.

We got a new shaft on our motor. Had taken it to  a local lathe. the guys at Chemmanur lathe in Palakkad did a really good job. We initially had a really small shaft or rather no shaft at all. Now we have a 5 inch shaft!!! Its a good job to say the least.

The works in the chassis area is moving at a snail's pace. We hope to speed it up this week.

Also, we are working on the charger circuit. We have decided to keep it simple. Just a step down transformer and a rectifier. 

We have to procure some items. don't know about the price of all that. A potbox would cost somewhere near 5K. Again, its ahuge amount. But in the Indian marlet, we don't have an alternative!!! 

Hope that Indian electronics market would flourish and the prices would come down in a few years.

Regards,

Team GreenMile