LEON

Low Energy Open Netlab

First boxes are filled

Filed under: Progress
Thomas Lippert @ 11th Oktober 2007, 14:04

Today I will give you a little update. It’s a pity we don’t have a camera here today, so we can’t give you any new visual impressions.

The LEON powerbox is completely mounted and wired. The first run was successful, now it has to be programmed to switch between main power supply and battery automatically depending on its loading status. Now we only have to wait for the solar panel to look if our power management works.

The second floor of our electrical actuators is fully installed and works fine. The drawer principle was changed a little bit and now it works fine without too much crunching. Our colleques at Volkswagen are building a second one as a blueprint for professional production.

Our pick and place device works fine, too. It takes the cap of the box during the filling steps.

We worked on cycle times the last hours. If we set maximum speed, the cycle time is five seconds now. Our 400 boxes are filled in half an our if we want… High speed production :)

We will have a break the next five weeks, so you have to wait a little bit for new information.