4th July 2010

On the4th July there was an official event to officiate the three cars from UKM which will be competing in Sepang by UKM's Vice Chancellor Dato Sharifah Hapsah Shahabudin. All the three teams got the chance to show the cars and we did grab some attention from 1st year students and their family (Sunday is the registration day for new intake).

UKM-Solar Car in TV3

UKM-Solar Car was reported in Buletin Utama TV3 9 July 2010. :)

SEM ASIA 2010 Curtain Riser at SIC

I want to stress out how's the inspection will be done.Check out the clip from 4.29

Roll Bar done..

Body Vehicle

The body-making process where the first picture shows the nylon fiber and the rest are top part fibers laid,waiting to be dried.

Update Progress

1. Solar panels arrived from Germany but are still hold back at the terminal since the panels were supposed to arrive on the 10 June instead of 16 June. So an extension letter for the PO indicating reasons of delay was issued to Bendahari to solve this matter. 
2.  We set the safety belt in a fix position and combine the 2 front brake cables into one handle. We tested the brake so it can break simultaneously. Other components such as isolator (emergency stop button) and horn are also tested.The back wheel was changed to a new one and we replaced a new hub motor.  

 

  

Reminder

Solar team members, please send a picture of you to Yaw Choong at leeyawchoong@yahoo.com

Informal picture is fine but make sure crop it first to suitable size.

Today also the last day to send the Surat Penerimaan Jawatan and kehadiran to your team leader. Team leaders,please send to Adi if possible 10am since Adi will be outside UKM after that.

E-shop Settle!

Today, I received the items from E-shop:

• 3 Tyres (somehow I imagined they were black in color and surprisingly the color were light blue)
• Horns(we got 2 horns despite the fact I ordered 1 horn, but I'm still waiting response from Kevin from E-shop to clarify whether the extra horn was given like that or it belongs to other teams)
• Driver's Suit
• LPG Kit (En Azhari asked my help to order for the LPG Team. But some problem occurred where the item received was only solenoid valve and no cartridge as mentioned. Fortunately, Kevin settle it with Shell and I'm glad since I was the one doing the ordering-takutla if it's actually my fault.) 

The first 3 items are with Yanpeng for tomorrow's next trip to Mr Winston's place

-Ras

Highlights of the 16 June meeting

1. Last Thursday (10June) went to Mr.Winston house, a test run performed.. the vehicle is able to reach the speed 30-35 km/h

2. However the motor burns due to high power supply from battery, whereas the hub motor only can support 36V, 250W. Joseph will order a new motor with can support high power voltage.

3. Solar Panel arrived and stuff ordered from E-shop arrived (3 tyres, 2 suits, 1 horn)
However, the remaining stuff ( helmet, safety belts, skull face, shoes, gloves ) are still waiting response from En.Azhari, SU Prof Yusoff.

4. This Friday (18June), the technical group and others will go Mr.Winston house to do the following jobs: ( Test Solar Panel, Change the 3 Tyres, Supervise the body making process ). Anyone wish to join, please contact Yanpeng.

5. Regarding to the technical briefing on Showcase there are some features need to double check and confirm:

(I) Dimension, Height <1.25x track width , wheel base
(II) Roll bar >5cm above helmet, able to withstand 70kgf
(III) No gap between bulkhead and body cover
(IV) Indicator for External Emergency shut down button
(V) The battery voltage should <48V ( <50A permanent, <150A peak )

-Kienho

Wait for the MyNUCar!!

A group photo

A group photo. But still it is not the full group photo. :(
This was taken a day before the showcase.

SIC Track

For drivers, you can have a look at the sic track,
pre plan driving strategies.

http://www-static.shell.com/static/ecomarathon/downloads/2010/asia/semasia_northtrack_layout.pdf

Solar Panels

Our solar panels have arrived last Tuesday from Germany!!At last. So, this Friday we will be going again to Mr Winston's place to check out our solar panels. There will be 6 panels with 383 x 893 mm² each.

Brief update on our progress

Our team went to Mr Winston house at Puchong to update on our vehicle.

We make the final check on the design so that it follow the rules. In the end we increase the length of the body to provide more space for the solar panels.

The motor also need to be replaced after the tricycle seem to slow down during the test drive.Since the body will be made by fiberglass, so the process will need a few days since we will be using 2 layers.

Showcase of SEMASIA 2010

On the 2nd June 2010, Shell Malaysia organized Showcase of Malaysian Teams 2010 at the Auditorium Cempaka Sari, Kompleks Perbadanan Putrajaya.
Some preparations had been done for our booth presentation such as preparing posters to explain our design and components use for our car.

Preparing the logo banner of our team

Here are some pictures during the showcase:

You can download the summary of technical briefing here taken from the showcase briefing by Collin and also from the Rules Regulation from Shell.

Submission of Pack Entry...Success!

Officially...we had already sent the full pack entry to Shell.
Despite some problems regarding the submission (sending failure) by many teams locally or internationally, Adi settled it by sending to Collin personally through email.
So, Alhamdulillah. Thank God.
But don't be too relieved yet since we still need to receive the GREEN LIGHT by SEM whether our vehicle design pass through the inspection.
So, all the best to all teams participated and of course the bestest of luck to our team UKM-SOLARCAR!!

To all members, I know most of you guys will be busy with PBL and Integrated project, but I really hope we can squeeze some time for SEM. In other words, finish PBL and IP quickly.Hehe. (>.<)

We start designing!

We started to design in our vehicle and electrical design using Autodesk software.
So, here's some pictures taken by Adi when everyone were busy with their own task.
Our car design is similar to the existing solar car that UKM owned but on a smaller scale.
Thanks to everyone who came although it was sort of rainy that night.

p/s: we actually pretend to be busy when the photos were taken.. :)

Welcome to our website!

Welcome,welcome,and welcome!
This is the website for our team UKM-SOLARCAR.
So, we will be competing in the Shell Eco-Marathon (SEM) Asia 2010 at the Sepang International Circuit
and as for the time being every progress for this team will be notified through this blog.
6 months to go and so many things to do.
I try my best to update this blog as constant as I can.
Ganbatte everyone!!