Awesome Australian Adventure A mechanical solution to an electrical problem.

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So we're on the road to Darwin. It's 11 pm. We just passed a place nicknamed 'kangaroo zoo'. Matt on the radio: "kangaroo left. Kangaroo right. Kangaroo right." DC on the radio: "My job is simple. If I see a kangaroo, I report it. If I hit a kangaroo, I keep going so I don't get rear ended by the fricking huge truck carrying the solarcar behind me."

So we got to Alice Springs about three hours ago. Alice Springs is the half way point between Adelaide and Darwin. This morning we did our final solarcar tests before Darwin- the array was generating about 75% the theoretical maximum at noon. Some of this is due to known broken panels that we'll replace. There's a couple other random problems we have to diagnose, but generally things look good.

We're not allowed to drive the solarcar in the northern territories until we get to the racetrack, so we're trailering it up to Darwin as fast as we can go. We're going to drive all night and all tomorrow. The last sign said 1290km to Darwin, and we're currently cruising at about 75 kmph so we expect to get there tomorrow evening.

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