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As part of the Electrical team, you'll be working with the electrical systems of the car. We're responsible for battery management,

  • battery protection
  • battery charging
  • power distribution

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  • driver controls

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  • controlling motor controllers
  • telemetry
  • lights
  • gps

For an electrical overview of how a solar car works, please refer to the Solar Car Electrical System Knowledge Base. Do note that this is from an older vehicle cycle so the exact specs of the cars mentioned are not fully accurate, but the general system architecture should stay the same

Also, please checkout the hardware knowledge shares and general electrical knowledge spaces to find more information

Hardware

We design and assemble all of our circuits ourselves. Our hardware team handles circuit design, PCB layout, board bring-up, and hardware debugging.

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Child pages (Children Display)
pageHardware

Software

All of our hardware requires firmware. Our firmware is written in C.

To get started, please refer to the following pages:

Child pages (Children Display)
pageSoftware 101