The SunCell parts were engineered to be standardized, interchangeable, and enabling of assembly with wrenches replacing hand metal cutting and welding with variations in each unit. These innovations are further enabling of mass production and assembly in readiness for future commercial production. The new design also comprises a new proprietary injector positioning/alignment technology necessitated due to a failure and unavailability of a critical vendor-supplied component. Automation and packaging are also progressing well. The 15 kW of trace heating for the molten metal pump lines to the new pump technology has been replaced with an internal heating system that exploits exiting capability. The power requirements dropped to 2 kW with heating to temperature minutes rather than about 7 hours. Reduction in downtime during implementing new engineering designs is being reduced by outsourcing enabled by complete and detailed engineering drawings of the current standard commercializable design.
