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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
Is it off the shelf Carbon Fiber or custom fabbed?
will it fit within cost?
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Well It will be partially custom as we have to vacuum bag and epoxy all the parts ourselves. Our instructor used to make solar powered racing vehicles a few years back with the same material so we shouldn't have any problems there.
As for cost, we're still looking for a supplier so we're getting some mixed prices (Partially thanks to the US military buying out 90% of the stuff!), we believe we have a source that can get us a good price but nothing is final yet.
From what we've seen we're looking at anywhere from $40-$60 per panel and we would use 4 of such panels. It helps cost a lot when you put it together yourself.
