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titleMeeting Minutes 2023/06/28

Participants: Former user (Deleted) Mohamed Goha Jonathan Xie Yanshen Zhou Jasmine Thind Jenna Kong Owen Li Kostubh Agarwal Nicole Choe Shem Kim

Objective: sync discussion on: lights, power startup sequence, brakes, steering

Lights:

  • Current enclosure is designed based on MSXVI

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  • LED board is in the YZ plane (if x the front-back axis of the car)

  • Might have optics to focus the light more

  • ENture surface is thermoformed over so light gaps can be as large as needed

  • Todo get reference lights if we don’t already have

  • How to get lighting requirements for side repeater? 5 degrees from body side

    • try not to have light stick out

    • What direction is reference light pointing? How is the reference light set up so we can replicate? Jasmine to email

  • Taillight must be visible 10 degrees from perpendicular, so might have to drap around the side of the car

    • Requires 2 boards if we need that

  • Confirmed will combine rear brake and turn

  • To figure out mounting for center brake light and BPS strobe

  • No combined turn/brake

    • One LED driver for both side DRLs

    • One driver per turn signal side

    • One driver for all 3 brake

    • One driver for BPS

    • Total 5

  • Combined turn/brake

    • One LED driver for both side DRLs

    • One driver per turn signal side

    • one driver per brake light

    • one for BPS

    • Total 7

  • Mostly todo: clarify reference

Whats the turn on process for the car?

  • Person closes main control switch

    • Aux batt is connected to main relays (2 of them)

    • Aux batt directly connects to HV contactor switch, which you close

    • How do we power BMS from aux battery and then switch the power source?

    • What are we checking? Voltage and temperature and current?

    • When we close the contactors, what gets connected?

      • DCDC

    • Power BMS first to run self check

  • How does BMS disconnect the pack if its connected to the

  • Can we email the people to ask if BMS can be powered for a few seconds after

    • Also ask if power select/power distribution can be powered with BMS at the start

    • Also ask if it can power UV cutoff

  • Talk to Mitch

  • UV cutoff is active protection as defined by 8.3.A.5, which is no protection when there is no power. Do we need to add passive protection?

  • Should we use primary cell for aux?

    • Probably not, since we can recharge aux batt any time so energy density is not that big of a concern

  • Owen to get back to jonathan about cutoff voltage

  • Aux battery will last at least one day, @Forest to see if thats is still true

    • 5Ah @ 12V, 60Wh, total driving time is 9 hours aux battery power consumption has to be less than 6W

    • Loads: 3.5W contactors, 1W for driver fan, Telemetry 2.5W, horn 0W which is 7W

    • To check regs if we can swap aux batteries whenever

  • There is CAD for the battery box, Mo is working on main assembly

  • Do we have thermal load for battery box

    • Allows us to reduce the LV power, BMS fans is the single largest LV load

    • Fans are part of the air duct that goes to the wheel

  • To send battery box with battery if that wasnt sent already

  • have searate battery box elec fw sync to talk about BMS architecture and general elec stuff in box

  • mo working on assembled CAD model to come next week (to get git to work properly as well)

Solar Panel covering

  • Nothing gets put on them

  • The roof will have indents for where the panels will sit, everything will the flush

    • Some mech stuff mech people have figured it out

  • Mo has solar panels in CAD

    • To get cutout locations

    • To make the specific 3d layout

How does regen braking work?

  • one pedal driving?

  • Jonathan to figure out how to deletect brake press and what it should connect to

  • we need button to turn poff regen for brake testing

  • No throttle is full braking

  • Full pedal is full power

  • to adjust gradient in testing

  • Battery max charge current is 0.7c, 27A max charge current

    • 2700W

    • Set regen level to be lower based on batter percentage

    • Set cutoff for high SOC

    • regen will have to be limited

  • Test regen efficiency on dyno when we get that working

  • Jonathan to figure out how much braking is 2700W

  • Wheel weels have not been designed

    • Don’t know how the openings will work

  • Do we want a button to control fan speed? Probably

    • To check if there are extra circuits on steering stalk

  • Forest to order some comically long USB cables

    • to see if long able off digikey

    • Cam to dash is 4-5m depends on how much we route it around

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