Monday, October 22, 2007
ELEGON_prototype_04_posting
Team: Anond Adrian Arunsmith, Esther Chu, Gao Tian, Phuttipan Aswakool, Tao Liu
We tried to experiment with a thicker flexinol wire to gain more power and more movement to our system. We changed the material from cardboard to bass wood and increased the length of the piece of wood, to test the limit of strengh of new thick flexinol. The longer the flexinol, the stronger the strengh it produces, while consuming more energy.
use THICK FLEXINOL
Things learned this week: Never buy Radio Shack brand Batteries, spend a little more on buying Duracell! Radio Shack Batteries run out SO FAST!!
We tried to experiment with a thicker flexinol wire to gain more power and more movement to our system. We changed the material from cardboard to bass wood and increased the length of the piece of wood, to test the limit of strengh of new thick flexinol. The longer the flexinol, the stronger the strengh it produces, while consuming more energy.
Testing 0.02" flexinol
Diagram of movement of bass wood depending to the length of flexinol
Testing 0.02" thick flexinol, refer to above image.
Testing 0.02" thick, 8" long flexinol, refer to diagram 1
Testing 0.02" thick, 18" long flexinol, refer to diagram 2
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