Awesome Australian Adventure A mechanical solution to an electrical problem.

WSC, day 5

So we're currently driving south between the South Australia border and Coober Pedy. We've had a few problems with the array... it's theoretical maximum is 1360 watts at noon, we expected around 1200, and for the first three days we couldn't get more than 600. Now it's closer to 900, but that's still much less than we were hoping for. Our break even speed is about 56kph.

So currently we're in fourth place of the Silicon class. We're also in last place, in terms of cars that have made the checkpoints on time without trailering their cars. Some of the Gallium-Arsenide (GaAs) cars have already finished.

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