Table of Contents

Context / Purpose

It is useful to understand the battery box design process/cycle and curriculum so that there is more contextual intuition when making any thermal management design decisions.

Members involved with this project should be familiar with the battery box’s design and the design decisions made during the process.

Consequences can include:

• Not accounting for all the factors

• Making a thermal management design decision that is counterproductive to a previous design decision or battery box design principle

Strategy

1. Read through battery box confluence page

   1. take a peek into battery box onboarding material of each term

2. Review any battery box design logs, documentations, or reports

Random Notes to Self

• probably want to limit myself to just the pages on confluence

  • resources on confluence page has been curated and tailored towards solar car and MS14 design

    • want to limit scope and understand our specific design the most

Research

• It seems like I ended up just taking note of some confluence pages and other resources that relate to battery box design

  • No notes or summaries were made on this confluence page because of lack of time.

Step 1 - Battery Box Basics, Curriculum, and Onboarding

General Confluence Pages

There is a lot of documentation on Confluence related to the battery box design and design process that dates back to the previous leads working on this MS14 design.

It would be useful to learn everything listed there, but for purposes of just skimming and the purpose of the design process, it might just be sufficient to browse through the home pages of each major task in the mechanical and electrical space related to the battery box.

Why? On these home pages, the previous leads have done a great job of highlighting context and design requirements, etc. (high-level information) that might be useful to keep in mind when guiding design decisions.

History and Overview of Battery Module Design

Battery Module Rev 5 - Mechanical - Confluence (atlassian.net)

• This page directs to Rev 5, but the side bar shows that there is Rev 7 (Final)

S2021 Battery Box Onboarding Material

Confluence:

• Confluence > Electrical > Projects MSXIV > Battery Basics

  • Battery Basics

• Confluence > Mechanical > Electrical Integration > Battery System > Battery Modules MSXIV > Battery Module Rev 5

  • Battery Module Rev 5

Intro Project:

• Confluence > Mechanical > Electrical Integration > Battery System > Intro Project

  • Getting Started - Mini Project

  • Will be going over the intro project during the first 3 check-ins

  • Learn about battery pack design!

Step 2 - Notes on Existing Design Logs and Documentation of Battery Box Design

“Some other links for MSXII's battery pack build discussion and compression plates:
Battery Pack Design Proposal
2017-03-01 Battery Pack Design Review”

• These links were recommended by Micah during S2021. He sent them into the battery box channel on slack

  • The source message of this was:
    ”Check out this confluence page for a bit more detail on the selection of the Nickel Strips: Nickel Strip Selection

    You can also read through these pages to get a bit more history on our battery modules:
    Battery Module Rev 5

    This page has some details for a prototype battery module with compression plates instead of spot welding for MSXII (we ended up doing a spot welded design):
    Battery Modules

    Some other links for MSXII's battery pack build discussion and compression plates:
    Battery Pack Design Proposal
    2017-03-01 Battery Pack Design Review

    @Renzo You might want to check out some of the notes from Prof. Fowler on this last page as well:
    Notes from Prof. Fowler “

• There are more access to other reports related to the Battery Box in the resources section below

Resources