Engineering Experience 4: Design a Small Solar Vehicle/Team phoenix (team 11)

Introduction:
In the folowing wiki you'll find everything there is to know about team phoenix. Team phoenix is a mixture of 4 Flemish and 4 Chinese students who are building a small solar vehicle for the course Engineering Expierience 4 (EE4). The ultimate goal of the project is to win the race. This race will take place at the end of the semester, on a sunny day.

meetings

 * 01/03/2011


 * 08/03/2011

Basic characteristic of the component part
Here is the constant that we use during the caculations Weight in total :                    800g coefficient of rolling:              0.015 Surface area(look from frount):      0.05 m^2 Drag coefficient :                   0.5 Power from the sun:                  800w/m^2 Quality factor, N of Solar Panel:    1.256 Short-circuit current, Isc:          0.94 A Open-circuit voltage, Voc:            0.56 V Gravity:                              9.81 N/kg density of air:                      1.29(kg/m3)


 * Solar Panel

Links
The phoenix project website: http://users.telenet.be/jonas.de.beckker/phoenix/news.html The phoenix project blog: http://thephoenixssv.wordpress.com/