Day 8

We went back out this morning to run another autonomous grid in the same area but instead of east/west lines it did north/south lines.  Also this time the robot did not stop at each waypoint which smoothed out its line of travel.

CR doing waypoint following, can see the tracks from the previous day's run.

After lunch we took the solar panels back off and tested Ben's newly built inverter circuit which worked great once everything was connected properly!  I also started repair on the damaged solar panel which will hopefully look almost as good as new.  When we testing the boost converters (BC) we realized that something was wrong with our power tracking.  Today we did some simple test and discovered that some program channels were wrong which was an easy fix once we knew what the problem was.  With that last problem solved surrounding the BC we are confidant that we will be able to run on solar power real soon!  This evening we went through the power program to scrub out any other little problems that would improve its overall operation.  After doing that all of our brains hurt and we are ready for bed to start tomorrow fresh to solve the next set of problems, but hopefully very soon we will be watching CR work while we have our tea in the big house.