| 450 Cell Battery Enclosure Midnight Sun Solar Car Engineering Design (2000) |
Time: 2 days Techniques: sketching, CAD, construction Tools: solidworks, machine shop Team: designe r/ builder (solo project) |
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Design Objective: Create a lightweight enclosure to house stacks of rechargeable batteries for a solar-powered car. The enclosure must allow for easy installation and removal of battery stacks for competition manipulation and also minimize space and weight. Design Solution: A vertical grid of Kevlar cells with cutouts that allow the batteries to be carefully removed in stacks with both hands. Result: The battery enclosure uses a minimum of space and very little material for low weight. The slots in each wall of the enclosure allow two-handed access to any battery stack by placing one hand on the battery stack and the other hand in an adjacent cell. |
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| Midnight Sun 6 | |||||||||
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| Battery enclosure mounted inside solar car | Two handed removal access for every stack | ||||||||