Where does this wire go?

Picture of Dalek Fuzzball being created. Notice one panel isn’t quite right?

My brother came over and we finished cutting all the pieces of the skirt. Then we went and test fitted them. Guess what! There were several that were so badly cut as to be unusable and needing to be re-cut. The worst part of it is that those panels were ones I did by myself .

Thats right 4 more panels. I have 5 total out of 11. This weekend coming up I’m hoping to knock out a few more. Maybe I’ll get lucky and get them all done so I can see fuzzball taking shape.

This is the first of the skirt panels. Bob convinced me to start with the panels first and then the inner frame. This is the back pannel.

Back panel of skirt.

We got the second side of the base done. We are doing two pieces and then bolting them together.

Next time we will be starting on the skirt frame.

Both pieces of the base side by side.

We got one side of the base done. We are doing two pieces and then bolting them together.

Laying out first cut

My brother came over and the 4 of us (me, Bob (my brother), Mark (my son), and Eileen (my wife)) did some more work. We striped a lot of stuff from the chair so it is just the frame, controls, wheels and motors. We also laid out the template for the base. Bob took some pictures and I’m sure they will end up on facebook.

The first is that I bought a voltmeter to use to know how much charge is in the batteries. I think we will wire it in so we can know when the charge is getting low. I don’t want any surprises.

The second item is that the charger that I thought was dead seems to be working. It appears that it was the batteries that made the charger look dead. It is supplying some current to the new batteries and I’ll check the charge in a bit. I expect I’ll be happily surprised.

My brother came over and we went over the motors. It turns out that the right wheels motor isn’t quite right. It works, but it doesn’t sound healthy. I’m debating taking it apart and seeing if it can be repaired, but I expect either a bearing or some other mechanical part (gear or whatever) might be the problem. If thats the case then it won’t be worth trying to fix and we will have to live with it. This chair is so old they don’t even make parts for it. I’m sure if I looked hard enough I could find one but it isn’t worth the effort.

And the good news. The wheel chair is mobile.

Some to-dos are to make or buy a 24v charger for the batteries so I don’t have to charge them individually. I also need to get some sort of meter in there so I can know how charged the batteries are.