Electric Wayside Pickup Proposal

ME 195A

Electric Wayside Pickup

Proposal

Team members, with brief listing of pertinent skills and responsibilities

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

Proposal narrative

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 up to 10 bogies on the 1/12 scale and up to 10 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

Critical Path Schedule

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 5 Volts or 12 Volts)
• 12 V, 5Ah battery for $15.00, available here .
• 6 V, 12Ah battery for $13.11, available here.
• Chose the 6 V instead of the 5 V because it was more readily available, the voltage can adjusted accordingly.
• 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.