Satus Update

This week our team is working on our final designs for the 1/12 scale wayside rail collector shoes. We have decided that the shoes will be on the sides of the boogie instead of on the top. This is due to the fact that there is not a lot of room on top of the boogies. We are working on CAD drawings for the new design and will have them done by next week. We have talked with the Electrical Engineering group and have have discussed the wayside rails. We are going to need to have about 20 amps running through these rails. In order to allow for this amount of current we will use 12 gauge AWG wire for the wayside rail. With this wire and our new collector shoes we are ready for our final design and prototyping.

Presentation #2

Please find our second presentation at the following link.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gkNuUSqOmkAAeOzg_GZYrvVdR7EYjH_zTF8qwTLFRkk/edit?usp=sharing

Presentation #1

Please find our first presentation at the following link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4ZXg8RzumNMkZpM1N6Umc2NEU/view?usp=sharing

Power Team Proposal

ME 195A

Electric Wayside Pickup Team

Proposal

Name	Skills	Email	Responsibilities
Garrett Gemmel	Electrical contracting, Solidworks, AutoCAD	GGemmel777@gmail.com	Project Management, CAD Design
Michael Hurst	Video Production / Mechatronics / Solidworks / Reports Writing	michael.p.hurst@gmail.com	Write reports, prepare materials for team presentations, research available solutions and communicate with suppliers, assist in fabrication of scale wayside power, assist in CAD modelling of designs.
Dianna Man	AutoCad, Inventor,Thermal/Fluids, Machining, Matlab	mandianna10@gmail.com	Budgeting, Design/CAD, Fabrication, Testing
Karmjot Singh	AutoCAD, Inventor, Machining, MatLab, Arduino	singh.karmjot@gmail.com	Design/CAD, Testing, Fabrication, Integration and Analysis, Scheduling
Matt Holst	Electrical Engineer	mattholst33@gmail.com	Coordinate efforts between EE team and Wayside Power team
Nasrat Haidari	AutoCad, Machining, Analysis, circuits, matlab, and micoprocessor programming	haidarinasrat@gmail.com	Design/CAD, Circuit analysis, testing, Scheduling, Integration, fabrication, and editing

The wayside power team will design a working model for the 1/12 and ¼ scale and will collaborate with the solar and bogie teams to determine the best method of powering our bogies with solar.

Design Requirements

• Hot rail on 1/12 and ¼ scale models to be kid safe for Maker Faire
• Power supply and circuitry to power 10 bogies on the 1/12 scale and 2 bogies on the ¼ scale
• Aesthetically pleasing and durable implementation of wayside power
• Stationary source

Deliverables

• Working model for wayside power on 1/12 and ¼ scale

Things to Accomplish (Action Items)

• Determine power requirements of bogies on 1/12 and ¼ scale
• Determine safe limits for working with electric circuits around children
• Find a way to power bogie and charge battery from wayside
• Discuss several design solutions for wayside power and create a plan for narrowing down to a final design choice
• Work closely with the solar team and the track design team.

Sketches

Figure 1. Different collector shoe designs commonly used on electric trains

Figure 2. Collector rail preliminary sketch

Figure 3. Preliminary design for collector rail and shoe

Preliminary Gantt Chart

Things to buy:

• Raw Aluminum for creating parts
• A 12” by 12” piece of stock Aluminum is $187.00, available here.
• Wiring
• Can be bought at HomeDepot.
• A battery for testing (need to decide 9 Volts or 12 Volts)
• 12 V, 5Ah battery for $15.00, available here
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• Motor for testing

• Mini 5V-15V 12V DC Motor 360 Motor 6000RPM with Speed Encoder for $4.00 available here.

• Need to match the motors that the 1/12 model actually uses.

Power Team Introduction

We are the Spartan Superway 2015 Power Team. Our goal is to create a wayside rail for the 1/12 and 1/4 scale track and bogie models. The wayside rail will be getting its power from the solar panels, so we will be working closely with the Solar team. 

Garrett Gemmel- Project management, Mechatronics, Machining, Welding, CAD/Design, Electrical

Michael Hurst- Video Production, Mechatronics, Solidworks, Reports Writing

Dianna Man- AutoCaAD, Inventor,Thermal/Fluids, Machining, MatLab

Karmjot Singh- AutoCAD, Inventor, Machining, MatLab, Arduino

Nasrat Haidari- AutoCAD, Machining, Analysis, Circuits, MatLab, and Mircoprocessors


For more information about team members links to their blogs can be found on the right.