The battery problem. Just before we left, it turned out that our batteries had high-resistance tabbing material installed, which meant that we were wasting power and generating heat. We spent the night before we left ripping off the tabbing off, and the driving around like crazy getting new tabbing put on the next day. Sunswift II had something like 700 AA size batteries in it's 3 packs.

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The battery problem. Just before we left, it turned out that our batteries had high-resistance tabbing material installed, which meant that we were wasting power and generating heat. We spent the night before we left ripping off the tabbing off, and the driving around like crazy getting new tabbing put on the next day. Sunswift II had something like 700 AA size batteries in it's 3 packs.

The battery problem. Just before we left, it turned out that our batteries had high-resistance tabbing material installed, which meant that we were wasting power and generating heat. We spent the night before we left ripping off the tabbing off, and the driving around like crazy getting new tabbing put on the next day. Sunswift II had something like 700 AA size batteries in it's 3 packs.