Satus Update

This week our team is working on our final designs for the 1/12 scale wayside rail collector shoes. We have decided that the shoes will be on the sides of the boogie instead of on the top. This is due to the fact that there is not a lot of room on top of the boogies. We are working on CAD drawings for the new design and will have them done by next week. We have talked with the Electrical Engineering group and have have discussed the wayside rails. We are going to need to have about 20 amps running through these rails. In order to allow for this amount of current we will use 12 gauge AWG wire for the wayside rail. With this wire and our new collector shoes we are ready for our final design and prototyping.