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Author: Dirk Verhaert

New TPS and pedal sensors …

In the past we already had a small conflict with P+G due to their flexibility and interest in small customers like us.

Of course they will not care but we changed all P+G sensors to Variohm, a supplier we already used for all our pressure and speed sensors.

Switch panel get’s update …

We can hardly count the stuff we had to re-do because we were not happy with the result.
The switch panel in the middle of the car is again a good example.

In a late phase we discovered we needed 2 extra switches on the panel, one for the EPS and the other one for the launch control setting.

Dash finally ready …

Despite we struggled seriously with our design tool we have decided to build in the displays. We are quite confident about the HW so we are going to take the risk.

We expect to receive a workaround for the tool next week so best case we only have to rebuild the SW and update the update the TFT’s.

Fingers crossed !!​

New drop-links in the front …

Since we bought an US brand adjustable sway bar (Ireland Engineering) all rod ends were imperial threads. Because it’s much more complicated to find here we had foreseen to re-make them in metrical.

So the new one has M10 threads and because the looks are important too, we had them blue anodised.

PWR-Boxes goes into production …

Since quite a long time we just used one PWR-Box to develop the SW.​

We need 4 of them in the car and because everythings starts working well it’s time to startup a small production.

Unfortunately it’s a lot of hand work (read time consuming) but it is what it is.

We plan to have a few spare for the case Murphy is looking around the corner 🙂

Debug moments …

We could easily understand that some of you start questioning why we don’t use the standard AIM, Stack or any other brand for the dash.

Sure, we would have saved a lot of time and cursing.

But the answer in fact is very simple : it’s much more fun, much more original and it gives us nearly infinite flexibility.

More over it fit’s perfectly the goals of R-Box, we want to be unique and innovative, even if it cost us an enormous amount of time and dedication.