Week 8 is the spring break. During spring break, and transitioning between week 8 and 9, we continued working on our issue that we found during week 7, which is the motor turned out to be unidirectional. We did some research on it, and we decided to go for welding the clutch as our primary solution. The second solution will be using a third motor, but this will be very troublesome because our team had to program the control system ourselves. Not only that, we will have to buy another timing belt that can stand the power of the third motor so that the belt will not break.
With that said, the team met up to work on the presentation, and also discuss how to solve the issue that we are dealing with. We came up with an idea to open up the motor ourselves. During our meeting at the Central Shop, we opened up the motor manually and we tried to manually turn the motor in both directions. It turned out at the motor does engage both directions: this means that the motor can move forward and backward. This solves our problem of the unidirectional thing. Next thing that we will be focusing on is implementing a braking system onto the motor.
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