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| Date | July 16, 2018 | |
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| Stage | 2 | |
| Start Location | Scotts Bluff National Monument | |
| End Location | The One Mile Hog Ranch Historical Site Marker | |
| Elapsed Distance | approx. 248 km (approx.) | |
| Start Elevation | 1255.4 m | |
| End Elevation | 1494.3 m | |
| Elevation Δ | 238.9 m | |
| Observer | Chloe Gibbons | |
| Lead Car | Chase CarConvoy | Micah Bai Devon Copeland Titus Chow Karl Ding Veronica Lee Taiping Li Robin Pearce |
Summary
We ended up missing the checkpoint, which meant that we had the same observer for two days.
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The car had immediately BPS faulted (due to the AFE board) once we unloaded and powered on at the Stage Start. We ended up working around the issue by swapping the boards around in the daisy chain, such that the board that needed 12 voltage inputs was on the good board, and the bad input was on the board that needed 6 inputs (luckily the bad input was on the unused portion of voltage inputs inside the slave box). The team also decided to christen the battery boxes as "Bill" and "Hillary" (and made it official with our label printer), as we constantly had to "lock them up", which the ASC officials Brian and Byron got a kick out of.
We also encountered our first test of bad weather, and thanks to taping our panel gaps, we managed to make it through relatively unscathed. The convoy somehow managed to sneak ahead of the thunderstorm that was following us, and so we just barely missed the downpour (barring a few small patches of rain). The trailer wasn't as lucky. We managed to make it to Douglas without any major problems, and then stopped at a large pullout on the left in order to get some additional charge, since our pack voltage was rather low, and there was a giant hill up ahead.
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