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The RPI formula hybrid team prepares students to use their skills and knowledge to succeed in an engineering workplace, practice professionalism, and demonstrate skill in project management techniques.
Check out out Main Webpage:http://formulahybrid.rpi.edu/Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08150914211678282023noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-61382370257951893342016-03-01T12:31:00.002-08:002016-03-01T12:31:48.966-08:00Building the battery pack, new sponsor (Li-ionWholesale.com)!The Formula Hybrid team has been firing on all cylinders over the past few months, making lots of progress on the car's different subsystems. I thought I'd bring a little attention to just one of the cool projects in the works right now: the '15-'16 high voltage battery pack.<br />
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The process of developing this year's high voltage battery pack (also termed "accumulator"), began with an evaluation of last year's methods and final product. The 2014-2015 season was the most recent time the team has attempted to build an accumulator completely from scratch. Due cockpit space constraints, we found it necessary to move away from the prepackaged A123 modules we'd used in the past and repackage the 26650 cells in a custom configuration. While the design proved effective, the development time associated with creating and validating scratch-built fusible links greatly set back the team's schedule. Additionally, the design time associated with creating all the new parts needed in the pack (bus bars, terminal plates, cell holders, insulation layers) took longer than expected.</div>
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With the team now more experienced with the challenges associated with accumulator construction, a new goal emerged: to use these developments to create a pack with greater capacity than our old modules had allowed. We began by investigating other potential cell chemistry currently on the market, as well as different cell form factors. After an extensive analysis of cell types, we settled on the Samsung INR18650-30Q. The 30Q provides excellent capacity (~3000mAh) and a continuous discharge current of up to 15A. The switch from LiFePo4 to Li-ion brought other changes as well. The cell count increased to 440 mainly due to the 18650 case size, and the total accumulator configuration changed as well in an attempt to maintain similar output voltages with the new chemistry. </div>
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With our ideal cells selected, it was time for the ultimate challenge: finding a seller. Surprisingly though, this turned out to be quite easy. Our requirements for purchasing cells included competitive pricing, shipping from North America, and most importantly, verified legitimate cells. After searching the internet with mixed results, we came upon <a href="http://www.liionwholesale.com/">www.liionwholesale.com</a> . Unlike many other sellers on the internet, they actually tested their cells to verify legitimacy and kept an active stock from their warehouse in Pennsylvania. Even better, they had upfront, highly competitive pricing for both small and large quantities on their website. Before committing to large quantities, we decided to purchase a couple samples to perform some independent testing,</div>
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The cells arrived promptly and well packaged. After a few charge and discharge tests, we confirmed that the cells were meeting their advertised specifications. Confident in the cell quality, we contacted Liionwholesale for a quote for a whole pack worth of cells. They got back to us almost immediately, and upon hearing about our team, offered a generous discount on the bulk quantity. They worked with us throughout the entire purchasing process and generally did everything they could to help the purchase go smoothly. After returning from winter break, the team was greeted with a brand-new box of cells!</div>
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Our configuration for the pack this year uses the cells in a vertical configuration, and attempts to maximize the cell density for our available space. The entire pack is made up of parallel groupings of 20 cells, each of which is then connected in series in a "snake" pattern to connect 22 of these groups in series. The isolation spacing between each group is also used to run temperature sensor and voltage sense lines. The cells are actively cooled with a CNC machined cooling plate mounted to the terminal plates through electrically isolating material. Cell groups are connected in parallel through nickel terminal plates located above and below. One of the special features of these terminal plates are the integrated fusible links waterjet cut into each one. Finally, the 22 strings are broken up into groups of 5,6,6, and 5 by segment maintenance switches to permit safer maintenance.</div>
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The accumulator interfaces with the rest of the car though the tractive system electronics compartment, located in the rear of the accumulator container. Custom bus bars and HV contactors route the tractive current out of the pack and to the motor controller.</div>
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The battery system sub-team is currently gearing up for final pack assembly soon, so check back often for future updates on this and other ongoing projects at RPI formula hybrid. A special thanks to our new sponsor, <a href="http://www.liionwholesale.com/">www.Liionwholesale.com</a> as well. They've helped make this awesome project possible! </div>
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Kyle Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677712243949200914noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-84368765209735034622015-02-10T16:47:00.003-08:002015-02-10T16:47:49.419-08:00Info Session/Start of the New Semester<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Ever wanted to work on a racecar? Need some more resume experience? Formula Hybrid is always looking for new members interested in designing, building, and testing a formula style racecar.</span><br />
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hands approach to engineering is an experience that the Rensselaer Formula
Hybrid team wanted to bring to the forefront of the Navigating Rensselaer and
Beyond or NRB experience with the incoming freshman class of 2018. Collaborating
with the <a href="http://news.rpi.edu/luwakkey/3087">Douglas Mercer ’77
Laboratory for Student Exploration and Innovation</a> for the electrical part
of the build, members of the hybrid team worked together with the freshman to
assemble and build a hybrid go-cart in one day. Complete with 205-cc Briggs and
Stratton combustion engine, Etek-RT Motor, 24-volt system with regeneration,
battery voltage monitoring circuit, and 2-axis accelerometer data logging; this project was quite an undertaking.<o:p></o:p></div>
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from the hybrid team used their precious summers to both fix and modify the
cart in order to get it ready for the event. Some of that preparation is in our
previous post </span><a href="http://rpihybrid.blogspot.com/2014/07/go-kart-testing-day.html" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">here</a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">.
In addition, collaboration with the Mercer Lab helped bring more electrical
design into the kart, with battery monitoring and data logging. Team members
put long hours into assembly and testing of the cart as well as taking all the
way down to a bare frame so the freshmen could rebuild it.</span></div>
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The
day started out with normal operations and safety procedures, but after that
was finished the incoming students walked into our shop to find a fully
dismantled and go-cart. With extra pieces scattered around the workbenches the
students had to figure out how the cart went back together bolt by bolt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Figuring
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Coming
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In addition, some students that
expressed interest in the more electrical part of the build headed up to Mercer
Lab. In the lab, the members of the team introduced the new students to
microcontrollers, breadboards, basic circuit analysis and design, and working
with the awesome top of the line tools that the Mercer Lab provides for all
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For the data logging, the hybrid
members and new students worked with an Arduino Nano, Accelerometer, and a data
logging shield to interface with a micro SD card to capture the forces at play.
To design and implement the battery monitoring circuit, hybrid members
explained a voltage divider and accompanying formulas so the new members could
design and implement the divider. The new students accomplished a divider that
pulled low amperage, outputted a voltage no higher than the Arduino could take,
and had relatively high resolution without previous knowledge beforehand.
Accompanying that was a buzzer to alert the driver during a run if an under or
over voltage situation occurred. <o:p></o:p></div>
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After taking a break from lunch,
the hybrid members introduced to the Mercer lab to the new students. There all
the students learned about how the department and Doug Mercer built the lab for
student projects and was free to use. After the presentation of the battery
monitoring and the data logging, one of the hybrid members; Eric Briggs, gave a
quick overview of internal combustion engines so all of the member could had a
better idea of how their cart, as well as our car works. <o:p></o:p></div>
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At the end of the day, the team
had not only put together most of the systems but also did it quickly and
efficiently, coming together and problem solving when something did not quite
fit. Later the hybrid members ran the go-cart in order to check for any safety
concerns that the build team did not accounted for. Although the cart was
supposed to run the next day, the team decided that the rain was not suitable
to run in. Re-scheduling to a later date, the cart performed exceptionally. <o:p></o:p></div>
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a bright sunny Saturday, the team joined again to run timed trials with the
cart. Running a pretty standard course the freshmen ripped apart the course (in
the best way possible). All in all it was a great experience for the incoming
students as well as for the formula hybrid team.
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Preparing the Cart</div>
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Because Racecar</div>
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It's that time of year again! On August 22, Formula Hybrid made its annual appearance at Rensselaer's Welcome Fest event for first-year students.<br />
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The DCMS made the trip down the hill unscathed. The team would like to give a special thanks to all the volunteers who helped carry it in and out of the shop. After rolling the car into position and putting our high voltage battery pack on display, we pulled out our cool new flyers and prepared for the students.<br />
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After the speeches concluded, the car began to start attracting visitors and curious students. We had a great time talking with the new Freshman class and letting people know about the team. We hope to see many of them again at our first team meeting! That's all for now, so we'll finish with a few more pictures of the DCMS:</div>
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from the morning, the kart was carefully looked over and evaluated by our own
Jordan Yamada and Chris Lamplough. After asserting that it would not
spontaneously combust (when handled by freshmen), Jordan and Chris found the
worn wheels warranted work. The best solution, they found, was a simple mint
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help restore the tires to their former functionality. Firstly, the forward
wheels were fed a filling helping of their favorite slime, pumped to pressure,
and spun for good measure. Then the rear wheels, after a brief fight with an
axle, where given the same treatment, with only a gentle application of brute
force. Once the wheels where placed, pumped and pacified, the performance
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by Chris, to help the wheels fully digest the slime they had just ingested. And
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Jordan Yamadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956594511670260995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-76282888939324360832014-06-18T13:16:00.000-07:002014-06-18T13:16:04.599-07:00Rollout 2014!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On May 10th, the Rensselaer Formula Hybrid team officially unveiled our newest car to the RPI community: The DCMS!<br />
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Both the electrical and mechanical teams worked hard in the days and morning preceding the event to ensure the DCMS was safe and prepped for an awesome demonstration. After rolling the DCMS out to North Lot for its presentation, the team was rewarded with two amazing test runs. Proving its capabilities as a well balanced hybrid vehicle, the DCMS completed the rigorous testing only using its high voltage system. As a send-off for two of our longtime members, Ricky Willems and Sam Putney were chosen to drive the runs.<br />
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Check out an on-board recording of Sam Putney's run <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvSEyhc-8-4">here</a><br />
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Check out an on-board recording of Ricky Willems' run <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00XBTzWq8g">here</a><br />
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Our test drives also produced valuable acceleration data for the team. This data is being used to validate and investigate the dynamics of our vehicle. The lessons documented here will allow us to optimize and innovate for future Rensselaer Formula Hybrid car designs.<br />
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The success of the DCMS is due in large part to the support of our sponsors. Their donations of time, funding, resources, and products were indispensable not only to creating the car, but also to producing the outstanding experiences and opportunities that our team members benefit from. Rollout was our chance to publicly give back these contributors. On behalf of the entire team, we extend our deepest gratitude to those who have helped us come so far this year. We hope to achieve even more in those to come!<br />
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From the Official <a href="http://www.formula-hybrid.org/students/announcements/">Formula Hybrid</a> website, "Rensselaer Formula Hybrid Team took second place with the Best Original Soundtrack for their video RPI Formula Hybrid Song 2014. RPI's song creatively expresses the student perspective on how to balance the Formula Hybrid life with having a relationship. Well done!"</div>
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This year at the 2014 Formula Hybrid Competition RPI’s team placed 6<sup>th</sup>
overall among other colleges. The competition requires teams to design and
build an open wheel racecar with a hybrid internal combustion and electric
drivetrain, while following strict safety criteria. The team worked year round to
get to competition, and despite an entirely new leadership comprised of mostly
sophomores, a relatively young and small team, and a complete redesign of the
car, managed to build and design the DCMS (The name of this year’s car). The
team is entirely student run, from getting sponsors to support the project to
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What makes this team special from other teams is the interdisciplinary
relationship between the mechanical and electrical parts of the car, the size
and dynamic of the team, and the challenge of the project. In the team photos
we took at competition we have eight students from the MANE department, and
five from the ECSE departments, and one from the Lally school of management
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Hybrid team is small enough that I can contribute and know everyone, while also
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for me. Additionally, SAE’s system is already so well optimized that I knew I
would probably not get that much flexibility in the one thing I love the most:
engine building and tuning. Formula hybrid has given me an opportunity like
nothing else has given me and for that I am truly grateful” (Eric Briggs,
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team the challenge of Formula Hybrid is enormous. The competition travels into
territory that most engineering teams and cars have never gone before. Out of
the many teams that compete, only a few cars actually ran during dynamic
events. Placing in the competition shows tremendous progress for the team, and with
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Jordan Yamadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956594511670260995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-71159895271663678252014-02-04T21:23:00.001-08:002014-02-04T21:24:15.745-08:00A New Semester The spring semester has officially commenced here at RPI. We've been as busy as ever here at Rensselaer Formula Hybrid as we transition from the designing portion of our project, to the building part. I want to first share with you some photos that were taken just before winter break during one of our testing sessions. This particular day was great fun and ended up being a wonderful team building activity as well.<br />
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You'll begin by seeing us inching through hallways and down stair cases, holding the car up ourselves. This is the only way we can get the car in and out of our shop. It's crazy, but we always seem to orchestrate it just right. <br />
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Soon after the test day, we all went home for the holiday break. One of the projects that was still in the works, even though classes were not in session, was the chassis. Over the break we received a box filled with laser cut tubes from Cartesian Tube Profiling, which would need to be welded together into a finished chassis.</div>
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Over the past few weeks, our mechanical team leaders have been hard at work jigging, tacking, and welding the chassis together. It is still not entirely complete, but in the photos below, you will be able to see a fairly complete cockpit area.</div>
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<br />Taylor Scicchitanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09976376499281355541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-46515192183796668282013-11-05T22:34:00.002-08:002013-11-05T22:34:44.105-08:00Fall Mid Semester Update<div style="text-align: right;">
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Whats up Formula Hybrid fans and supporters? The team has been hard at work and I can't wait to do a little show and tell for you. Besides design, much of our efforts over these past few months have been spent on new member education and integration. In fact, we've held more programs for new members this year, than we have ever held in RPI Formula Hybrid history. Our young leadership team, consisting of mostly second year students has really stepped up to the plate, providing tutorials relating to nearly all major aspects of our project; including CAD design, machining, welding, and subsystem education.<br />
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One new teaching tool that we are particularly proud of is our, "What is Racecar?" series. "What is Racecar?" is a series of weekly seminars, held before our general meetings. Each installment is given by a different sub-team leader with the intention of educating both new and existing team-members about their area of the project. By the end of the semester we plan to have provided seminars on drive-train, high voltage electrical, suspension, driver controls, data management, and the Formula Hybrid Competition.<br />
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We plan to use last year's car throughout the end of next semester as a practice tool for our drivers as the new car comes together. In order to safely drive our car on school property, five of our leaders participated in a fire safety course. We gathered some helpful fire safety tips and at the end of the course, we were able to shoot a class A fire extinguisher at a pretty sweet propane fire simulator.<br />
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The necessity to move last year's car became apparent as designs were finalized, funding began trickling in, and we started ordering parts for this year's car. So, on a chilly Monday night, our prized race car was lifted from its resting place in the Johnson Engineering Center and rolled across campus to its current location in our shop in the Ricketts building. Maneuvering the car around the buildings' tight corridors and up and down several sets of stairs was a great team building activity and at the end we were able to snag our first official photo of the new team.<br />
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Hope you've enjoyed this post, stay tuned for a detailed design post coming soon. For more information on the team or about how you can contribute, contact me, Taylor, at scicct@rpi.edu. Have a great week!<br />
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Taylor Scicchitanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09976376499281355541noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-38123989894850133672013-08-24T14:14:00.000-07:002013-10-04T04:43:43.466-07:00NRB Hybrid Go Kart<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="text-align: justify;">After about a good week's worth of work and staying up till 2-3 o'clock in the morning, we had a very successful NRB (Navigation Rensselaer and Beyond). NRB is all the events welcome the freshman to Rensselaer and helping them get settled in their new environment. For our contribution we take a few freshman and put together a Go Kart, which we later take apart and have them assemble. This should help keep growing the team after our seniors graduated. Starting out this project ran into a lot of roadblocks. We planned all summer to make a brand new cart with electrical wiring and everything buts Sam, Kyle, and I decided that we didn't have time to weld the chassis to implement this overall design.</span><br />
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Deciding to just modify the old go kart chassis we used in previous NRB's we went to work. After a few nights of hard work, we got the cart to a state where the we could take it apart so the freshman could rebuild it for the first day of the NRB.</div>
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After the incoming freshman put the go kart back together there were a few discrepancies that had to be rectified as pointed out by our advisor Casey Goodwin. We then took the kart to JEC to make the necessary additions, and made sure that it would be able to handle the abuse of the following day. Despite a small miscommunication about getting the track reserved and some minor chain tensioning, the kart ran well. All the Freshmen had the opportunity to take it out for a drive, and we saw a lot of interest in hybrids and our team. Overall the NRB and the new go kart was a great success and is a prelude of the successes in the season to come.</div>
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Even though we were ready to show off our race car, there was still a bit more work to do to make it race ready. A year long effort to make a custom differential finally concluded after we picked up the two parts from Raloid Tool Inc.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The differential, made to hold gears from a Torsen University Special</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But well worth it to see the differential finally assembled, here with the sprocket carriers</td></tr>
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<br />Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972343728317819562noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-28465268761453371802013-04-19T09:45:00.000-07:002013-04-22T19:57:25.638-07:00Rollout!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972343728317819562noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-71494328669779914372013-04-16T20:53:00.001-07:002013-04-16T20:53:08.585-07:002 Weeks!We've been getting lots of work done, and there's lots of work to do. Here are some recent updates.<br />
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The race car in "rolling chassis" state was brought down to Ecovative Design in Green Island. A few of us had the pleasure of working with Gavin McIntyre and others to pack bags of their Mycobond "Regrind" into the chassis to use as seat bolsters.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grinding the Mycobond so that it can be put into bags for application</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This biocomposite needs to grow in a clean environment. Look at the science!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bags were stuff and molded to shape in the cockpit</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanks to Dave for being our human mold</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final set up of bolsters</td></tr>
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Ecovative's material takes a couple days to grow, or colonize. We duct-taped the bolsters in place and left the chassis at their warehouse for a couple days. Once they are done growing, they get popped in the oven to dry then they are good to go. I'll update pictures when I go get them tomorrow.<div>
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A lot of work was done on the turbocharger. Last Sunday, we brought the car with the complete turbo system to Rensselaer Motorsports dynamometer to see how it would go. There will be a big update of the complete system soon, but I'll discuss it a bit here.</div>
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By the rules, if we have a turbo, we are in the modified engine category and all of our intake air must pass through a 12mm restrictor. Furthermore, all throttle bodies must be upstream of the restrictor. This combination means that when the throttle is closed there is a large pressure differential on each side of the turbo, which was sucking in a lot of oil through the turbo and intake system and depositing it inside the engine. Until we can figure out an appropriate way to deal with the oil pressure, we have decided to work on the car in it's Naturally Aspirated state. Luckily we were able to do a tuning session in NA, and are working on optimizing the ECU and fuel injection.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turbocharger all hooked up! It looked pretty good.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We tried adding an oil pressure regulator but it did not solve the problem</td></tr>
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There was other good news too. We were able to get our telemetry working! Through XBee technology we were able to wirelessly communicate with the car from a laptop. We will be making more XBee modules and fully utilizing this feature.</div>
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In these final weeks we are concentrating on polishing our electrical system and getting ready for technical inspection. Stay tuned</div>
Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972343728317819562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-73637176705558375662013-04-08T09:43:00.005-07:002013-04-08T09:43:55.254-07:00Field TripWith competition in 3 weeks, we've been incredible busy. This last weekend, we were able to cool down a bit, and a few of us went to Team Manager Taylor's house in CT to paint the chassis. His father, Vinny of Accurate Auto Repair, offered to paint for us in his garage, and it turned out great!<br />
First though, we had to dissemble the car, weld on all final mounting tabs, and strip the paint. It's easy to forget how many bolts it takes to hold a car together.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">President Sam and His Gnarly Rear Suspension</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready for the ride back in Dave's truck</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We've hooked up a new ECU and we're able to talk to it. It's a Performance Electronics 1 donated to us by the FSAE team.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New placement of radiator and intercooler</td></tr>
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Coming up, tomorrow we are going down to Ecovative Design to use their innovative product to "grow" us a seat our of a mycelium and corn biocomposite.<br />
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In other news, Raloid Tool Company Incorporated has agreed to manufacture the differential for us. This is great news because it will finally finish our drive-train for the year. Delivery date is April 19th, and I'll have plenty of pictures up.<br />
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This past week, we've had a lot of opportunities to work with people outside the team that have supported us. I want to take this time to say Thank you to all of our sponsors! Your contributions are incredibly helpful to the team, and we hope to honor that by performing well at competition. Thank you.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972343728317819562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-59246341748626213572013-03-18T15:43:00.001-07:002013-03-18T15:43:15.707-07:00First Drive of '13Last Sunday was a fun day for the team. We test-drove the car for the first time this year. Let's chronicle the adventure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Getting the car out of the shop was a lot easier this year, since the accumulator container <br />has moved. Most of the team still showed up to held move the car.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The car fits perfectly in Dave's new truck. This also made it a lot easier to transport to the parking lot we test in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There were a last few tasks before we were ready to drive, such as attaching the impact attenuator, fueling, bolt check.</td></tr>
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Test driving on Sunday gave us a chance to really see our progress this year. We were able to test a lot of new systems, including pedal box, steering column, shifter, brakes, fuel system, accumulator container, firewall, engine harness, HV lines, and more.<br />
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This first iteration represents a lot of hard work so far, but it is not the final racecar. There is still a lot more work to be done, including the design report. Driving the car is the first step to the car we really want.<br />
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And just to give some more detailed updates on the race car, here are a few things we've worked in the last couple weeks and over spring break.<br />
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<br />Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972343728317819562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-43305290366441937402013-03-05T03:16:00.002-08:002013-03-05T03:16:27.237-08:00Well it's been a very busy week, with good and bad news. We were planning on driving the car for the first time this year last Sunday (3/3/13) but we had to cancel the drive. There were just a few things left to complete, and we wanted to finish with quality instead of rushing any projects. Sunday was cold and snowy anyways.<br />
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We got a new steering column with lighter aluminum shafts and a splined quick release hub. Geometry by Rusty and welding by Dave (above). The steering column was designed to minimize free-play while still passing template.</div>
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Lots of work has been done on the battery boxes. Here Sam and Kyle are routing the High Voltage cable. Packaging has been a challenge but it's going to be sweet when it comes together.</div>
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Andy has set up the new dashboard with all the required parts and started all the wiring. </div>
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Brake lines have been routed slightly different than last year and fully bleed by Liam and Sanju. Brake systems ready to go!</div>
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Jordan is making the harness for the engine. Much neater than last year!</div>
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Here's a mock-up of the Control Box that the motor controller and ECU will eventually be mounted to.</div>
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The spool has been re-attached by Ian while we wait for the differential to be machined. Also visible in the background is the new motor chain tensioner made by Caroline.</div>
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Our fabrication skills include some fine Aluminum welding. Here's the gas tank and seat pan. The gas tank is completely done and the fuel lines have also been connected.</div>
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At the end of the long weekend, we had an impromptu meeting to discuss our work and our plans for the next phase of the car. </div>
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Ton of other work was also done, including testing the throttle position sensor, wiring the motor controller, CAN nodes, mounting the low voltage battery and more!</div>
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We have a week until spring break, during which we're hoping to keep up the pace and get as much done. After a much deserved rest, we'll be back to drive the car on March 17th!</div>
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<br />Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972343728317819562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-16418367347143783642013-02-23T16:25:00.001-08:002013-02-23T16:25:31.119-08:00Busy Day At The Shop!Today is shaping up to be one of our most productive days of the semester and it feels great. We've had about 20 members in and out of the shop throughout the day working on various projects and a lot has gotten done. We have an anticipated first drive date of March 2nd, which is just one week away. The team has been working vigorously in order to meet its goal. Here are some highlights from the variety of projects that are being welded, chopped, shaped and designed behind the doors of our shop.<br />
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In this next photo, you'll see senior Dave Golden putting the final touches on his pedal box. Designed in Solidworks and crafted from steel, this year's box will be extremely light, coming in at around 5lbs. and considerably stronger than previous iterations.<br />
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Here you'll see president Sam Putney working with Freshman Kyle Pollard as they make inserts out of aluminum on our shop lathe.</div>
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Here, freshman Larry Oligny is making some fine adjustments with the bench grinder.</div>
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One project that we are particularly excited to make progress on is our drivers seat. Here you can see our lightweight aluminum seat pan which had been cut and bent in-house. Soon its joints will be welded and we'll send it over to a local business called Ecovative Design who has graciously offered to construct our seat-support material from their patented fungus-based foam material.</div>
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In these next two photos, you'll see our differential hangers which were designed by vice president Liam Mooney and cut in-house from aluminum. This year we will be running a limited slip differential which is currently being built for us by an outside vender. Following the two photos of the diff hangars, you'll see VP Liam himself working with our impact attenuator material on the CAD software, Solidworks. </div>
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An exciting delivery that we got in the mail this week is a soda-can sized turbocharger from Garrett Turbochargers. Senior Dresdan Gordon (in green) has been spearheading the forced induction project on the team and has done hours of calculations to prove the benefits of the tiny turbocharger. The next challenge for Dresdan will be fitting the turbo and building the intake restrictor which is mandatory for forced induction vehicles in the Formula Hybrid competition.</div>
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The electrical team, led by junior Caleb Cook-Kollars, (in brown) has been working furiously to make headway on the car's CAN BUS communication system. The CAN system is made up of a network of small chips which will be placed throughout the car. The chips have the ability to perform functions and collect data from their respective areas. The network, which will act like a nervous system for our car, will allow for wireless, real-time, data acquisition. This will prove to be an invaluable asset during the testing and tuning of our car.</div>
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Finally, one last-minute change that we had to make in order to comply with this year's competition rules is in our battery placement. In previous iterations of our car, we carried our batteries in an aluminum box on the side of the car. In-fact, our chassis was originally designed with this configuration in mind. However, this year's rule book stipulates that the batteries must exist within the structural frame of the car, so we decided to move the batteries from the side of the car to beneath the driver. In the next four photos, you'll see our battery box, which was built by president Sam Putney out of a durable plastic material called kydex.</div>
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Also a lot of fun was touring the museum was the team. It was cool to see awesome super cars and classic automobiles. Seeing different car builds, such as unique suspension systems, aqua cars, and frames was useful experience to bring to our design.<br />
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Outreach is something that would really benefit the team, and after this successful event, we will definitely try to Education and team building all in one. Good times.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972343728317819562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-83623618682043308422013-02-13T17:36:00.000-08:002013-02-13T17:37:46.820-08:00Feeling the Buurn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
It's been very busy in the shop recently. We've worked a lot on a timeline and calendar to keep us on track, and our goal is still to drive the Blue Heron for the first time this year on March 2nd (and every other weekend thereafter). We'll be driving it on North Lot on campus, so thankfully we don't need a trailer. However RPI is requiring us to have Fire Extinguisher Training, so they've set up a class for us next week. We'll let you know how much they can teach us in a hour about fire extinguishers...</div>
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Today during our task meeting our new polos came in! Which meant a great photo shoot opportunity....<br />
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We've also gotten a couple new members this semester, including Sanju (far right) who is joining Alex on the composites team, as well as Rusty (third from right) who is working on the steering column.<br />
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All in all, it's a great time to be in Rensselaer Formula Hybrid<br />
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<br />Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972343728317819562noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-87628350198662787032013-02-08T09:42:00.000-08:002013-02-08T09:42:03.620-08:00Pedal Box and Other ProgressThings are going pretty well for us this season so far. We have made much progress on the car and the first iteration is on track to be ready for testing by March 2nd. Despite all of the good things that have carried over from last year, we hit some snags this year with rules that were changed from 2012. <br />
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The most pressing rule change was the addition of legs to the PERCY driver template as well as a rule stating that cars will not be able to run if PERCY doesn't fit. Our previous pedal box did not provide enough legroom to fit PERCY, so a redesign was necessary. <br />
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On the pedal box for this year, the master cylinders are oriented in front of the pedals, instead of the conventional layout of behind the pedals. This was done to move the pedal faces forward toward the front bulkhead as far as possible and provide the most legroom possible with our chassis. <br />
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The box and pedals are constructed entirely out of 14 gauge cold rolled steel that has been cut on the RPI water jet and TIG welded into box frame shapes. This allows for a stiff, lightweight design that complies with all Formula Hybrid Competition rules.<br />
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Each pedal features adjustable positive stops to tune the pedal travel for optimum operation and driver feedback. The throttle travel and rest position can be adjusted for optimum heel-toe placement. <br />
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This current box is about a half pound lighter than the box from last year, and most importantly, it allows us to fit PERCY and pass technical inspection. <br />
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In other news, we received an exciting new shipment last night. Our new engine came in! We can now have one engine on the engine dyno for tuning and EFI testing purposes and one to use in the car for dynamic testing. <br />
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And, speaking of EFI testing, we now have our ECOTRONS EFI system working and running properly. With a new wiring harness and some diagnostics and troubleshooting, we were able to fix a few issues that we had last year. We plan to use this setup on our March 2nd test date. Look for updates coming soon as projects are completed and subsystems are installed. <br />
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Dave GoldenDavid Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328989284917333594noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-56379543011621627332013-01-16T11:52:00.000-08:002013-01-16T16:00:20.921-08:00Goals Outline for Car Version 3.5 With Car 3.0 through inspection at the 2012 competition, we kicked off the 2013 school year knowing we had a solid platform to work on. With much of the team's leadership and most experienced members having graduated just after the 2012 competition, we were also confident that the fully functional car 3.0 would provide an excellent learning tool for new and younger members. On car 3.0, these less experienced team members can see complete and working examples of the types of systems that need to be designed and improved upon in 2013 and the years to come.<br />
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Shown below is a video taken during the team's Navigation Rensselaer and Beyond event, at which we demonstrated the race car to a group of incoming freshmen.<br />
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This video was taken shortly after the electric motor drive was converted from v-belt drive to chain drive. As seen at the beginning of the video the car was quite able to drive on electric-only power because of this. With the conversion complete, that made this driving session our first real session on full hybrid power. If compared to the videos taken at the 2012 competition and during testing in April 2012, it is easy to see that the car performs better in this video.<br />
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However, throughout testing in the fall, new challenges were presented while issues we'd experienced before continued to haunt us. Considering the risk of damaging systems the we planned to reuse in 2013, we disassembled the car earlier than planned for and began work on a new bench-top dynamometer in early October. I hope to have another post up soon detailing progress on the dyno and engine-tuning.<br />
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Aside from our work to overcome these unexpected challenges, work has also continued toward innovation on last year's systems, as planned out in our mission to spend two years on one car. During the fall semester a senior capstone team, consisting of several RPI hybrid team members as well as others, focused their design project on a new limited-slip differential for our car. Building on the internals of our LSD from Car 2.0, a new, lightweight housing was designed and fabricated to accommodate two sprockets in the same configuration as on our spool. At the end of the fall semester, the differential was being tested on a custom rig designed by the capstone team. I hope to have a post designated to the new differential up soon, and we all look forward to putting it in the car on February 3rd.<br />
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With thanks to our awesome crew of new members and our new mechanical team leadership (Dave Golden and Dresdan Gordon), we have also seen a ton of progress on other systems, particularly the shifter, pedal box, battery box, dashboard, EFI, and CAN bus system among other things. There have been many exciting developments in these systems and fabrication is about to begin for all these projects, so we hope to have some photos and details coming soon! (I'd give you a sneak peak of the pedal box, but first some issue regarding my Solidworks licensing needs to be investigated further).<br />
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TTFN,<br />
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RPI Hybrid PresidentAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893927295005370059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-60082417593049002192012-05-24T16:28:00.000-07:002012-10-22T16:35:54.288-07:002012 Competition and Year Sum UpRPI Formula Hybrid 2011-2012 year ended very strongly. We brought out race car to the competition at New Hampshire Motor Speedway from April 30th-May 3rd.<br />
Despite all our planning, a couple things still happened last minute. Our pneumatic shifter was swapped for a manual slapstick shifter because we were concerned with the tank capacity of the pneumatic system.<br />
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After a few touch-ups we were able to pass mechanical tech inspection but we had a few problems with the electrical systems. Eventually, multiply convoys were sent in every direction to find us a specific DC fuse and we pass electrical tech too.<br />
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When we completed the rest of the inspections, it was RPI Formula Hybrid's first time ever competing in a dynamic event when we took part of the Endurance Race. The first half of the endurance was strong; we even overtook a few other schools, but we started having engine problems during the second half. The race ended when we ran out of gas, but nonetheless when the points were tallied we placed 7th!<br />
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Thank everyone so much for the support! We are very happy with the results and look forward to the future we will go from here.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972343728317819562noreply@blogger.com0New Hampshire, USA43.1938516 -71.572395341.7123896 -74.0992508 44.6753136 -69.0455398tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994853068127324027.post-88979769008048720352012-05-01T09:39:00.000-07:002012-05-01T10:22:29.176-07:00Tech Park Testing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last Saturday we tested the car at Pitney Bowes in the Rensselaer Tech Park. <br />
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There were a few hiccups in the car - our starter battery and air shifter weren't working. The motor belt was slipping too, but we were able to run the car anyways. Check out the pictures!<br />
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