2024-08-18 Meeting notes

Updates

Kaden

• New Car

• What’s going to change on the old car:

  • New BB

  • Maybe changes to some assemblies to optimize

Post Comp Updates

Kaden

• Hard ass grind, car did run but did not get scrutineering done in time to compete

• A ton of stuff on the car broke in the trailer on the way back from comp, but we’re revamping it for next year anyways

• COOLING WORKED, it was fully done and assembled

• Some parts damaged, ducts ripped (cause of storm)

• Other Cars

  • We lowkey mog all other cars in cooling. Some DONT have cooling (BB is rated for higher temps)

  • Most other cars only have basic ducts + fans like we do but most don’t even have intakes. Some did exhaust out the back like us, other cars did like intake in one wheel well and out the other

  • Our cooling is more complex than most other cars

  • No cars really had interesting cooling

Timelines

Kaden

• Check the mechanical leads meeting confluence page, it has a ton of onboarding and timeline info

Recruiting/

Onboarding

Kaden

• Goal is two new members

• What YALL want to see in a recruit, give me info, who should we accept and reject and what to look for

• Anyone interesting in helping with recruiting or wanna be kept in the loop? lmk

• Recruiting Timeline is on slack

• Onboarding info is on the mechanical leads meeting notes

  • Learn basics of heat transfer

  • Learn CAD, TIW printing and laser cutting

  • Starter Projects

  • Not do whatever the fuh we did last year

Projects

Kaden

• Learn at least the basics of heat transfer, learn all of how cooling on daybreak works

  • Everyone

• Revamp of daybreak components

  • Intake/Outtake funnel to shell attachment

  • Duct to funnel attachment

  • Redesigns and reprints of anything, theres much to improve

  • Might have to change some bb components since they’re making new bb. BUT we’ll try to make a new bb around current cooling design.

• ANSYS

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• Driver Cooling (Daybreak)

  • Incomplete, start from scratch

• New Cycle Cooling Research (BB and Driver)

  • Heat Pipes vs Duct Fans vs any other design

  • Very dependent with BB design, frame, and aeroshell. Can’t make a solid design just yet we don’t even know how much we have to cool the BB by.
    
    

What do yall wanna do on this team

everyone

• Pranet

• Nitish

• Justin