The last set of tests the team needed to complete was the full system test. This involved a series of preparations for each subsystem.  The first road block was obtaining permission from RIT's environmental health and safety department (EHS) to work with citronella oil and possible burn it. After some time the approval was green-lit and the team began to assemble the system. Inside the Brinkman lab the torch, base and pump systems were assembled to begin the tests with filling a tank with oil and detecting the full state. If the team successfully reached this point then the torch could be lit under the welding vent. Unfortunately we ran into one big issue. The citronella oil acted more like an insulator than water did. This meant that the capacitive system was unable to detect the charge of the wire in the liquid at the full state. This means that the pump would eventually overfill the tank as the sensor always read the empty or low state. Several different tests were attempted to remedy this issue but we were unable to replicate the results of the tests with water.


This did not mean the team was unsuccessful in reaching their goals, though. Even with this issue several user guides were created to help the customer make the necessary changes to the system to fix the remaining issues. Attached below in section four are all five of these guides which include a large amount of detail on the subsystems and the challenges the team faced with them as well as the possible improvements and areas of further exploration for the advancement of the Bug Torch system. Overall the most successful system was the wireless connection and data transferring. We were fully capable of sending data from the torch to the base station over WiFi at the end of testing.


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