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Scrutineering just needs to see contactors open for 3 conditions
Steering
Critical buttons should not be on screens, they should all be physical buttons
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The steering wheel gets abused the most. Make the steering board robust. Discrete buttons with the fly-wire to the board. Prevent the button from being over-pressed.
Power Distribution
LTC4417 Power Path Priority
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RGBW serial lights that can go different colors. MSX used the flash LEDs from blackberry. Kapton tape for the Amber lights.
Motor Controller
MSXII Precharge was hardware based.
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Available in 5 degree increments
Lights Boards
Thermal Vias - Usually spaced as close as possible, and as small as possible.
Heatsinking to something must be able to radiate the heat as well.
Aux Charger
Rules used to be primary cell Aux.
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Keep one-upping the scrutineers for regulations
Solar Sense
What is the issue?
Yellow construction work lights for testing the panels
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Robustness - They'll fail and the no one will no how to fix them.
DC-DC Modules
Vicor modules have the switching logic inside, but the components outside.
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Thermistor switch for controlling the fan.
Management Input Perspective
Break in to teams to work on projects - mentor relationship
If not working on the board, probably not ideal to bring up the board - usually ends up in more broken boards.
Battery
MSX did battery testing - capacity - great job for co-ops
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Lithium at low voltage is not dangerous??
Firmware
See Arshan's firmware overview presentation
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-Interior mirrors that go out through the windows
Driver Selection
A driver that drives the car like a car is best.
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