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A solar racing car cannot be managed during a race without knowledge of its speed and the state-of-charge of its battery. Other parameters are also important, such as the array current , the motor current, the main bus voltage , the motor temperature, and the cockpit temperature. The present chapter covers the means for making the foregoing measurements.
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Colloquially known as “frying” your motor.
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Read et al. (1990) reports such an output accurate to within 5 %.
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Although, when a short circuit, or a semi-short circuit, happens (caused by rain water entering the openings you have not properly sealed) the ampere–hour meter reading unreels like a slot machine display after the handle is pulled.
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3600°C is equal to 1 A-h.
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Thacher, E. (2015). Instrumentation. In: A Solar Car Primer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17494-5_7
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