2nd Semester Week 8: 03/27 - 04/03

Week 8 was the spring break. During spring break, we continued working on our issue that we found during week 7, which is the motor turned out to be unidirectional. There are several possibilities that the team found during researching, welding the clutch of the motor, or using a third motor. The team came into the conclusion that welding the clutch would be the best solution. Hence, our back-up plans would be using the third motor that Superway had, but this will be very troublesome because our team had to program the control system ourselves. Aside from that, there will be an increase in the bill of materials if we decide to go for the third motor, mainly because we have to buy another timing belt that can stand the power of the third motor so that the belt will not break.

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