Another Sunday, another batch of snow and ice!
For the first time in a few week, we both managed to make it to the days work.

Today was spent setting up the link, and mocking up the all the intended layouts for wiring locations and routes.

It took us longer than anticipated to do this, as we struggled to fit things into varying sockets and othersuch. However, we managed to complete it, and after we traced out the intended location of the batteries, ESC, and motors, to work out how much cable we needed for it all.

There's a few things we established from today - the motor that runs the weapon doesn't run on its own fuse, unlike the the traction motors, so this might be modified in later on. We also need to actually build the area where the ESC will sit, and we'll need to finalise a solution for controlling the weapon motor, and whether to stick with the homemade solution, or one off the wonderful internet. We're aware of another upcoming purchase, the hydraulic jack trolley for getting it around will be quite a bit of money. So we may see how the homemade solution performs in a few real world scenarios before we make a final push on that front.

Over the week, Colin is going to try to make a start on building up the area needed to mount the ESC firmly in place, and I'll be paying another visit to Maplin, if its still open, as we need a bit of extra cable and sockets.