Week 8

Finalizing Body and Initializing Wiring

• Conveyor belt
• Mounted the finished conveyor belt onto the axles
• Tested to ensure it will turn well
• Screwed the silicone brushes to the back container
• tested to make sure the nails on the conveyor belt would move through the brushes
• Filter
• Prepared filter for attachment to container by gluing conveyor belts scraps around the edges
• Conveyor belt material glues better to the container material though the container must be sanded down
• Pump
• Epoxied the bottom of the pump to its proper place in the front container and cut a hole for the output tubing
• Algae
• Centrifuged the algae samples
• found the concentrations of algae in the test pool and tracked its growth
• Wiring
• Tested 12V battery with pump
• Obtained AA batteries for DC motors
• Setup wiring for DC motors