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 | Battery Box Co-lead: Owen Li When: Anytime remote! | ||
 | Battery Box Co-lead: Eric Zhao When: Onsite some weekends and most weekday afternoons, remote communication otherwise over Slack Pic of Donna | Battery Box Co-lead: Donna Kim When: Onsite some weekends, available most weekday afternoons and always available on Slack Email: d28kim@uwaterloo.ca | |
Pic of Jenna | Battery Box Project Manager: Jenna Kim Insert when Jenna’s available |  (This is from before university but I haven’t changed much) | Battery Box Advisor: Micah Black When: Onsite some weekends and weekday evenings, remote communication otherwise over Slack |
Where to Go From This Page
To get you accustomed to navigating our massive and often confusing Confluence, on the left sidebar, please head to the previously pre-recorded recordings:
Mechanical space > MSXIV > Electrical Integration > Battery System > Zoom Meeting Recordings
You should skim through these videos. They might be A LOT to take in at first and you probably won’t understand some of the things that Micah talks about. DON’T WORRY! As you spend more time working on tasks you’ll remember some of what you heard in these videos and it’ll make a lot more sense. In the future its really useful to re-watch these videos when working on tasks as it can help you better understand how your task fits into the bigger picture! (I don’t remember if we even used these videos in Fall 2022, the onboarding project is probably enough to start for the new members I think)
First, join our Discord , and Slack , and Trello if you haven’t already! Feel free to reach out to Donna if you’re not sure how to join.
Once you’re in, check out the Intro Project (Getting Started - Onboarding Project)!
And then, schedule a 1-1 with Donna and …. so we can get to know you and learn about your goals with the team :)
PS: There are general mechanical seminars about all sorts of interesting things (Drawings, CAD, Composites, Materials Testing). They are great to check out to learn more about the car and engineering skills. More details to come in the check-ins! (Don’t think we had this Fall 2022 either)
Estimated Time Commitment for Onboarding
Task | Estimated Time Needed (super rough estimate, actual time taken will vary by person and will most likely be shorter!) | ||
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Attending First General, Mech 101, and first Battery Box check-in | 3.5 hours total |
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Working through Intro Project | 4 hours per week for 3 weeks (12 hours total) |
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These are the main tasks we have yet to do in Fall 2023. We’ll try to assign everyone to the task they’re most interested in! More details can be found in each task’s Trello card (ask Donna if you need someone to add you to Trellowe’ll introduce the Trello system in our first check-in of the term!) and by contacting each task’s project lead.
Trello: https://trello.com/b/V6Ktj92J/battery-box (not sure if we want to put the link or if we’re trying to keep the Trello as clean as possible with less members, feel free to delete)
Project | Description | More Information |
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Auxiliary Battery | Smaller battery pack separate from the main batteries. Serves several purposes:
Relevant tasks: | Project Lead: Darton Li For more information: |
Battery Module Manufacturing | Our main battery pack is made up of 9 modules connected in series, with each module being made up of Li-ion 21700 cells in a 4S8P configuration. Relevant tasks:
| Project Lead: Donna Kim For more information: |
BMS (Battery Management System) | Battery packs are dangerous to use without an electrical system that checks its health/state (temperature, current, voltage, charge balance). The BMS actively keeps track of the state of the modules and actively protects the cells while also informing the driver of the state of the pack. Relevant tasks:
| Project Lead: Jenna K.Kim For more information: |
Enclosure | The enclosure is the box that holds the main battery pack and also the BMS boards. Relevant tasks:
| Project Lead: Nicole Choe (You can also contact Shem Kim if Nicole is busy/unavailable) For more information: |
Telemetry | Our Strategy team uses data about the battery pack to figure out how to optimally use the energy we have stored. They will be following our car in a separate car (not a solar car, just an ordinary one), getting sent this data and communicating with the driver during the race. We have to send this data wirelessly to the car, which is what Telemetry is about. | Project Lead: Katharine Laughton For more information:
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