12 Volt battery Box

          Today at the shop, we were able to grind down the weld beads on the 12 volt battery box while Garrett helped Adam and Calvin with the bracket that would hold the controller and other various components to the motors. Max, John, and Alex all worked on the donor proposals while Calvin cut the bracket. However, when Calvin was cutting the bracket, the cutting wheel got caught on the metal and under the pressure from the saw the cutting wheel shattered, cutting Calvin badly enough that he had to go to the hospital to have his arm stitched up.

The remnants of the cutting wheel that injured Calvin.

          After Mr. Preston and Calvin left to go to the hospital, I finished the 12V battery box and inserted the batteries. I then took the battery box over to the car and tried to find a way to fit it into the car. It turned out that the location for the battery box was uneven so we had to build small brackets that would fit onto the bottom of the battery box so that it would be level. We worked on the brackets and measured them before we permanently welded them to the box. The brackets fit perfectly so we decided to bolt the 12V battery box to the car. Then we went to lunch, and when we returned, Calvin noticed that the battery box was shaking and moving around more than what we would consider stable, so I fabricated a fourth mount to attach to the side of the box to prevent it from moving. 

The four batteries in the newly fabricated battery box.

          At the end of the day, we had fitted the 12 volt battery box, the bracket, found the points for the controller, inserted the four batteries, and prepared the bracket for the motor components.

The strip of aluminum that the level is sitting on is the bracket that the controller will rest on.