2024-11-27 Electrical Meeting

Attendance

General Updates

• Meghan running this meeting 🔥🔥

• LAST MEETING OF THE TERM

  • WE ACTUALLY KILLED IT THIS TERM NICE JOB EVERYONE

  • Ryan Scomazzon To talk a bit looking back on how epic we did

• Last flight test

  • 2024-11-23 Pegasus Flight Test - Flight Tests - WARG

  • https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1306366375606091817

  • Tracking antenna had data sending issue - pushed to next flight test

  • Pegasus 2 new landing gear testing moved to next test

  • Autonomy Cluster Estimation and Image collection with manually set camera settings

  • Houston had motor issues and can now be flown until we get new motors - we are looking at better motors https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1310452583449628692

    • Help is welcome if you wanna look into motor selection

• Next Flight Test - Nov 23rd

  • 2024-11-30 Pegasus 2 Landing Gear Flight Test - Flight Tests - WARG

  • https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/1306721274973786132

  • Testing new angled landing gear - for landing on the bucket

  • Houston tests postponed until we get new motors (tracking antenna)

  • Pilot training moved to this test

• Final Flight Test of the term - Dec 14th

  • Testing both solutions for task 2 - pump (water controller) and scoop (single servo driver

  • water controller is pending on EE - we need this assembled and validated by then!

  • PULL UP!!

• Winter 2025 EE Co-op

  • An EE coop would be really epic but we need a mentor to have one!

  • If you wanna be a coop mentor, please reach out to EE leads. It would be really really epic and cool and awesome sauce.

  • EE co-ops have been actually popping off (nice job guys)

  • DEADLINE IS TOMORROW so please reach out now if interested!!!!!!!

• PMs next term

  • We are looking for PMs for next term

  • Going to release a form after finals, please keep an eye out if interested

  • No questions on the form, just submit if interested

  • We will talk individually to everyone who fills it out to see PM role would work and go over expectations.

  • Can be on OR off site.

• Midterm board order

  • Please follow post ordering backup processhttps://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2699821117/Altium+Folder+Structure+EE+Project+Backups#Post-Ordering

  • Yet to bet ordered

    • Sensor cluster - prob gonna be on its own

    • Tracking Antenna Controller rev 2, GPS (for GPS breakout) - combined together

    • Led Rev 4 - maybe combined with above maybe not?

• EE Work session

• AEAC Town Hall #1 happened

  • This is where they answer questions everyone had about competition

  • 2024-11-22 AEAC Townhall #1 - Meetings - WARG

• PCBX Sponsorship Ryan Scomazzon

  • Good news and bad news

  • Good news: Turns out they didn't ghost us, it just got sent to junk

  • Bad news: They are ops of deception and basically used this as a marketing campaign. Their offer for free services was only for the first order and everyone gets this as a new account promotion. They conveniently didn't mention this in their first email.

  • They mentioned something about offering a discount to us for long term cooperation? I sent an email to push for what we can get out of them but I think this is probably a dud

  • Back to looking for a JLC sponsorship, I can use some help with that.

• Comp/Eclipse sync

  • No eclipse sync

  • Comp sync tmrw night (Thursday) @ 8pm in E5-2103

    • LAST COMP SYNC OF THE TERM

• TOASTER OVEN ACQUIRED 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💪 💪 💪 💪 💪

• Beginning of term order

  • Who wants to be on it?

  • Reasonable timeline?

Reminders

• Please clean up after yourself

• Get the electronsite role if on site - reach out to Ryan Scomazzon if you have issues

• Check out Conops for AEAC! Get involved in comp syncs for discussion https://www.aerialevolution.ca/annual-student-competition/

• If you are on a project and can use some help, reach out

• Don’t forget to fill out the team roster: https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D

• Missing GPS

  • RIP - Gone forever likely

  • probably gonna order

    

Board bring up Status

Please update test plans/board documentation!

WATER CONTROLLER

Peggy 2/Comp Updates

• Jerry Tian For Peggy 2

• Water controller making (prob in more detail above)

• Comp relevant PCBAs

  • Water controller

  • Water controller Rev 2

  • LED REV 4

  • Tracking antenna controller rev2

  • Unified VTX - descoped from this comp cycle

  • Single servo driver

  • Pi interface rev c

• Big push now is for Dec 14 flight test

Eclipse Updates - Fixed Wing 2025 - SysInt - WARG (atlassian.net)

• The below boards should be included

  • 6S servo module rev 2 - On midterm order - assembly likely next term

  • Single Servo Driver - waiting on EFS

  • 6S power module - in validation Andrew Chai for details

    • High current test

    • POR for first flight of eclipse next term.

  • 24-5V buck - redundant power supply

  • Jerry Tian Interested in harness diagrams?

  • Looking for diagrams of where things will be mounted from mech

  • CAN Integration 2025

General Tasks

In order of priority. These are the active design projects.

• RPi Interface Rev C - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Daniel Puratich Project Manager, Principle Hardware Engineer

  • Kenny Na

• 12S ESC - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Ethan Abraham& Andrew Chai

• ELRS Redundant Diversity RX - Electrical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • Nolan Haines Individual Contributor

• 12S Pre-Charge Controller Module

  • Robert Tang , Kevin Li

• 3S ESC

  • Kenny Na, PM Daniel Puratich

• Fixed wing connector research (VBat, CAN, 5V)

  • Ryan Scomazzon

  • Forgot to check connector at work

  • Still open for anyone who wants to help, dm me

• ELRS Gemini Testing/Rev 2

  • Ahmed Osman

12V Input to 65W USB-PD Source - Electrical - WARG

• Ian Van Den Steen

12V to 24V Boost Groundside Converter - Electrical - WARG

• Tim Gu

Water System Controller rev 2 - Electrical - WARG

• Shawn Yang add link for new doc and any progress

Action Items