We already solved few of the problems that we have been encountering in our thesis. The problems that we are encountering were mainly on the filling part. The solenoid valves that we used seemed not to work properly. We made about 10 trips to the machine shop just to solve the problem. Finally, last Monday we finally finalized the design for the filling part and solved the problem of filling the bottles too slow. We just connected the pipes directly from the main tank and just a solenoid valve will keep/allow the oil from flowing. The controller will just time how long the valve is to open. The capping was solved quickly using the design of a cylindrical device that turns with a dc motor.
Right now we are waiting for the frame and the solenoid valve to be assembled. I hope there will be no more problems in the filling when we get back to the machine shop.
Still am worrying about the pace I am studying the notes about C# for my class in programming. 4 weeks have passed and still I'm at Lesson 9. I better finish lesson 18 next week or else I will have trouble programming the final project.