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