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

Lead Mentor: [mailto:rjohn68953@pobox.com 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