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Once you’re in, check out the Intro Project (Getting Started Onboarding - Onboarding ProjectMSXV)!

Estimated Time Commitment for Onboarding

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Auxiliary Battery

Smaller battery pack separate from the main batteries. Serves several purposes:

  • Ensures the car still moves even if the main battery pack malfunctions mid-race (imagine if our steering and braking suddenly stops while we’re driving at 50km/h)

  • Used for car start-up sequence (aux battery “boots up” the car before we utilize the main pack for safety reasons)

Relevant tasks:

Project Lead: Darton Li

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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:

  • Module manufacturing

  • Bolt selection for series connections

Project Lead: Donna Kim

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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:

  • Making the BMS

  • Board mounts

Project Lead: Jenna Kim

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Enclosure

The enclosure is the box that holds the main battery pack and also the BMS boards.

Relevant tasks:

  • Finish prototyping

  • Board mounts

  • Manufacture finished product

Project Lead: Nicole Choe

(Contact Shem Kim if Nicole is unavailable)

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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

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As you can see, Battery Box is a cool mix of Mechanical, Software, and Electrical engineering, meaning it’s perfect for Trons + if you’re interested in branching out to other engineering fields, or if you’re just interesting in trying everything!

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