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After this break, the Electric Racecar team is in full throttle as we finalize the design for our battery box design. We spent all last quarter, constantly designing and redesigning the box while also following the extensive number of rules in the FSAE rulebook. The exterior and interior walls are made from steel that are then lined with fireproof and …
With the start of winter quarter the electric racing team has switched its focus from the electrical systems to the mechanical systems. Thor will be using a double wishbone suspension since that allows us to maintain a reasonable camber while the wheels travel up and down. So far the suspension team has finished preliminary designs for all four uprights and …
Over the last 9 weeks Anteater Racing Electric has been very busy making huge strides with this year’s vehicle! We finally completed and got a circuit design concept, for the painful, brake plausibility device, BPD for short. The BPD is a device that would trigger the shutdown circuit in the car if the driver hard brakes and power was delivered …
For this week, we are still focusing on electrical system design as suggested by the professor. I have been working on the battery box sub-team. For those that who do not know, the battery box is where we are going to keep the high and low voltage system within the racecar. The battery box must meet many requirements, such as …
A battery pack consists of a number of cells (cells are the individual batteries). When the battery pack is charged or discharged, the voltage on each cell will change at different rates. Cells can be damaged if their voltage is too high or too low. To prevent this from happening, we use a battery management system. We use the Elithion …
The past few weeks, the team had been working on wiring the electrical systems for racecar, “Thor”. This had been a major repeated issue for many years, and we hope to solve our issues with our car’s electrical systems this year. We had also drew the wiring diagram for the low voltage box. In previous years, a graduated graduate student …
