2024-10-07 Electromechanical Meeting notes

15 min

Parthiv

• SW Cooling part progress and check in

10 min

Parthiv

• New/Upcoming Projects

  • Enclosures 🐺🐺

    • testing rigs for repeatable runs (vibration table, rotating water jet sprayer around enclosures, 3D printed parts aceton vapor smoothing for part strengthening)

  • Wire Harnessing 🐺🐺

    • licenses for EPLAN yet to come, indiv licenses

    • HV schematic, then LV, then combined full car schematic on KiCad (use blackboxes and footprints to represent individual pcbs)- Surabhi + Talha

  • Cooling 🐺🐺

    • Daybreak battery box intake - Tejas

    • Daybreak battery box exhaust - Annie

    • Driver Cooling w/controls - Sophia?

• Current Member Projects

  • WH

    • Scrutineering PCB - Kailash

    • Learn EPLAN - Bosa + Kailash

  • Cooling

    • ANSYS - Pranet

    • Motor Controller - Justin

    • Next gen. heat pipes + MPPT enclosure - Nitish

    • Cell heat gen. calcs - Kaden

  • Enclosures

    • Battery Box redesign

    • Solenoid locking mechanism

    • Universal enclosure

5 min

Parthiv

• New Regulations

  • Battery must have forced ventilation with negative pressure cooling and ducts to exhaust

  • Battery capacity probably down to 3KWh, for now its 5.25 KWh