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 | Battery Box Co-lead: Owen Li When: Anytime remote! |
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.caPic of Nicole |
 | Battery Box Junior Co-Lead: Nicole Choe When: Anytime remote, preferably through Slack. Onsite weekdays after 6pm, and on weekends! Email: nfchoe@uwaterloo.ca |
 | Battery Box Junior Co-Lead: Shem Kim When: Anytime remote on Slack or email. Might not respond before 4:30PM on weekdays. Email: s56kim@uwaterloo.ca |
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Current Projects
These are the main tasks we have yet to do in to be completed from Fall 2023 . We’ll try to assign everyone to the task they’re most interested in! - onwards. More details can be found in each task’s Trello card (we’ll introduce the Trello system in during our first check-in of the term!!) and by contacting each task’s project lead.:
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 Kim For more information:
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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 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: |
This is just a brief overview of the projects we’re working on. As you can see, Battery Box is a cool mix of Mechanical, Software, and Electrical engineering (, meaning it’s perfect for Trons , anyone + if you’re interested in branching out to other engineering fields, or if you’re just trying to diversify your toolbox). Fall 2023 is when we’re going interesting in trying everything!
Fall 2023 for Battery Box is going to be really heavy into the manufacturing phase for our sub-team, so it’s going to be a great way to get some hands-on experience + some design work as well!: )
Further Information
If you want further information about our battery system, feel free to watch these zoom recordings by our previous Battery Box Lead and Advisor Micah Black.
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