S2021 Elec Planning

Owned by Kristen S
Last updated: Jun 26, 2021
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W21 Term Goals

  • Assembling final versions of boards

  • Motor Sense Validation (Hall-effect issues) - Weekend :)

  • High voltage testing 

  • Cell balancing + BMS Testing - in progress

  • Validation for final versions of boards (FW & HW)

  • Harnessing Planning ??

 

Team Dependencies

  • Harnessing and Locations in the vehicle

    • Will block

  • Enclosures

    • Wiring, enclosure design, wiring, cable management have not been decided

    • Impacted by Dash Team

  • Aerobody

    • Blocks electrical wiring

  • Catamaran Box

    • Blocks enclosures (Rear electronics)

 

Hardware Working Sessions

  • Elec only: 9AM - 3PM on Saturdays (may be changed due to Mech, we’ll know the Wednesday of)

  • Can also go in during the week

 

Task Breakdown

Details

Goals + Timeframe

Status

Details

Goals + Timeframe

Status

Assembling final versions of boards (HW)

  • PD Validation

  • PS Assembled

  • Steering

  • Lights Assembly in progress

  • Solar July

  • UV Cutoff (Rev 1) June 29

  • Centre Console June 28

Need to do more testing for lights (DRLs get hot)

Determine if we have a good enough final version for each boards. (If not, we’ll put together a new rev for board sendout before the Fall term)

Current Sense: In Progress

 

Center ConsoleIn Progress

 

Board Validation

(see tracker for validation priorities)

Charger validation → July 10th work session

 

Telemetry

Hardware x Firmware meeting to discuss current state

Collect equipment in Waterloo, make purchases

Motor Sense Validation (HW)

  • At the stage of integrating Sense to Controllers

  • Blocks all of Power Train

Done as much as we can do, as of W21

Done

for now

High voltage testing (HW)

  • Integration Testing

  • Charging

  • Battery

  • Blocked by Motor Sense Validation

  • Blocked by Pre-Charge integration testing

 

Precharge needs to be tested with motor

Cell balancing + BMS Testing (FW)

  • Need to test passive balancing

  • 1 AFE is broken

End of March

Medium

Updating Firmware (FW) - Remote

  • Updating FW for new boards

Complete before HW is assembled

More detailed planning to follow

 

Validation for final versions of boards (FW)

  • Priority list for validation has been provided

  • Testing as boards are assembled

  • Charger

  • Solar

End of Spring Term

 

Solar Validation

  • Blocked by solar sense assembly

 

 

Harnessing Planning

  • Fully remote

Next term



Issues with commitment……...

 

Long Term Planning

 

Canadian Open: June 2022
Competition: July 2022

 

Not feasible:

  • No major design changes or architectural changes

 

Spring 2021

  • Begin rear electronics integration

  • Begin harnessing (majority)

  • Begin Enclosure bring up, mounting boards

  • BMS, Full Mockup End of Spring

  • + Charging, lights, displays Integration for mockup

  • + Solar Testing



Fall 2021

  • Solar Integration

  • Integration

    • All Mockup Items

    • Telemetry

    • CAN Network complete

  • BMS Validation

    • How long till we can start testing with the battery pack → end of spring term (may be able to test w/ cells on the bench, but we’ll want to test with the BMS with battery before integration with mech)

  • BPS Scrutineering Mock-test



Winter 2022

  • Testing



Spring 2022 (May)

  • Testing for competition



Topics of Discussion:

  • Key Milestones

    • BMS Mockup

    • Full Mockup

    • Charging, Lights

    • Solar

  • Testing

  • Integration



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