Electrical mentoring

The Electrical sub-team manages all of the electrical wiring and components on the robot from the battery to the motors.

Lead Mentor: Ross Johnson

Training

• Wire Stripping

• Crimping

• Soldering including soldering project Bring box of old circuit boards (scrap), through-hole components, focus on producing good solder joints, then assemble a Jameco project

• Cable dressing (anchors, tie wraps, heat shrink, spiral wrap, etc.

• Wire gauges, male/female connectors, color codes

• Connectors used on a FRC robot

• Electrical terms and electrical safety

• Multimeters - volts, ohms, amps

• Components (PDP, Talons, etc.)

Advanced Students

• Electrical systems design (on the robot)

  • Autodesk Inventor

  • Solidworks

• Test equipment

  • Oscilloscope

  • Current Shunts, hall effect sensing

  • Signal Generator

  • Simple logic analyzers

  • Design and construction of a stand-alone motor controller (aka Johnson box)

• Sensors

  • Ultrasonics

  • LIDAR

  • Encoders: CIMCoder/E4x

  • Switches

  • Opto-reflectors/interrupters

Communications Busses

• Digital I/O (levels)

• Serial (TTL, RS-232, RS-485, balanced RS-422)

• PWM

• CAN bus

• SPI

• IIC