2024-07-07 Electrical Director Sync
- Daniel Puratich
Attendance
Present
@Jerry Tian
@Neel Patel left early
@Daniel Puratich
@Michael Botros joined in half way thru
@Ethan Abraham joined 3/4 way thru lol
Missing:
@Nolan Haines
@Nathan Green
@Megan Spee
References
Introduction
What progress has been made in the last month?
Servo module: test plan written
Tracking Antenna Board: on architecture
Buck 48V->12V: board is ready to order
GPS Breakout: schematic is almost done
6S Power Module: architecture phase
Lighting: another rev is starting
Pegasus 2 Wiring: Nolan on prep before assembly session
ZP3: a board is ready for EFS
12V->5V buck assembled, 2x working and validated ready for flight, 2x need debug, 1x ruined pad
6S Servo Module: not started, but dedicated for co-op
What do you and your team want to achieve in the next month?
Pegasus 2 Wiring
EE Leads should discuss
Harness schematic for Peggy 2?
No timeline
Nolan leading assembly session.
@Jerry Tian Will do harness schematic, will take roughly a week,
draw main battery harness first
12S2P for Pegasus 2
two 6S batteries in series
two in parallel
identical to how we have Pegasus 1 for the battery count and configuration, the harness should be optimized ofc
For reference: Big Quad 2025
@Nathan Green @Daniel Puratich can review
@Nolan Haines's plan for wiring was to do it this week possibly, may need to pivot here.
Cannot complete within two weeks
@Jerry Tian thinks will take end of term
plan for ordering boards
Timeline for board bring-up and testing
End of month this plan will be made.
What roadblocks do you need help clearing to make this happen?
Lighting System
Leads need to figure out what’s happening here
Leadership of Electrical Team
@Daniel Puratich
the team needs strong leads to get concrete objectives from people
there’s plenty of people, they need direction, otherwise they get board and leave
no point in staying or doing anything for a team with no goals or necessity
Clear delegation of projects doesn’t exist
Sync with Nolan within the next week and all EE leads to clearly define who is leading which projects and set expectations for project progress.
@Jerry Tian
Wants to do the fixed wing related projects
doesn’t have time for Peggy 2 Stuff
12S Servo Module bring-up
6S Servo Module Rev 1 ← @Daniel Puratich taking with co-op.
@Neel Patel @Jerry Tian both cant make EE meeting
possibly reschedule the meeting to get more leads involved
later in evening a lot of people didn’t join call
Too many projects
not enough leads for the projects
grouping projects together and assigning out more project managers for individual projects
PMs might not have experience
have times to discuss projects, discuss progress with members
not enough leadership structure
just focus on higher priority projects
slowly drop other projects?
currently telling new bootcampers there are no new projects?
breaking down projects into smaller chunks then delegate from there
there are no bootcampers rn
for fall not enough bandwidth to support new projects
leads don’t have bandwidth to support the existing projects
which things aren’t being supported?
gps can adapter: GPS CAN Adapter
5->24 boost
6s esc
smoke stopper
leads dont have bandwidth to inquire about these
bring up new PMs
if people working on projects dont ask for questions then leads dont have time to poke then
using ee meeting could be an easier way to poke
place of EE meeting
lots of back and forth between Daniel and Michael lol
place of 1:1s vs place of the electrical meeting
get the specifics in the 1:1
could do presentations in the ee meeting to discuss projects
could get updates from people, but it can be irrelevant for other team members
ee meeting is 1 hr
ee meeting has ended really quick this term
should get people’s updates to hold the accountable
then use the rest of the time to have someone, a single person, deep dive into their project in detail, share screen n show confluence or schematic, take questions
hold people accountable for progress
take the whole hour, project updates should be more than 10 seconds, force more updates, push the burden more on members
Jerry will schedule another sync for next week to follow up on all of this.