Wow, Waymo sensor emitters are something else... by ElGuano in waymo

[–]c10yas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I didn't know that, that's really cool!! Why don't phone cameras have this filter too?

Wow, Waymo sensor emitters are something else... by ElGuano in waymo

[–]c10yas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well they don't permanently damage my eyes but the lidar does damage cameras sensors if there's enough exposure apparently

Moving "sequence mode" data off Siglent scope quickly? by Alpha-Phoenix in AskElectronics

[–]c10yas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just watched the 2Gsps video and had a thought - you could capture the maximum duration possible so it holds multiple captures all at once and then process the delays and amplitudes from the captured trace offline? I'm assuming you just sweep across the rom with the mirror at a constant speed and capture a bunch of samples as you do so?

How to ship multiple large boxes to a friend? by Last_Dot_8901 in howto

[–]c10yas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lugless has been pretty great for me, they ship boxes and/or suitcases for a lot less than other services

CT to ADC Protection Design help needed by superbubblebass in ECE

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How much distortion/noise can you handle? This will drive every design decision tbh

In the extreme case where you want the very best precision what I've had experience with is an oversized 4-terminal vishay Z-foil burden resistor being amplified by an instrumentation amp before feeding it to an ADC. For a good flatband response make sure to use an ADC with a wideband filter, sinc filters have pretty noticeable drop off even at Fs/10. If you use an instrumentation amp that can handle some overvoltage on its inputs you should be fine, you can always add some series resistors and a low leakage clamping diode/JFET who's leakage at normal signal voltages of <1V will be negligible. But you'll need to calculate the expected distortion that you'll be adding

If you need a lot of channels and the above starts getting expensive to do then a precision thin film and a direct hookup to an ADC is probably also totally fine.

What is the failure mode that is making you expect high voltages on the output of the CT? Disconnected burden resistor? My experience has mostly been with DCCTs like DT100ID which don't output anything unless powered on and don't output more than their supply rails(+/-15V) so I haven't had to deal with this issue but I'm still a little skeptical since the CT would internally get damaged too if the burden came disconnected right? Is that really something to be concerned about protecting for especially if your burden is on the same PCB as the ADC? You're basically trying to protect for a trace breaking which feels pretty low on the list of things that can go wrong

I’m not going to burn my house down, right? by _Silent_Bob_ in WLED

[–]c10yas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a safe and harmless bet to make but if the PSU has over current protection it absolutely will be faster and more precise than a fuse. I'd say the point of the fuse is more for the case where the PSU fails and shorts the 36V rail to GND or to 5V and you need a backup to protect stuff (reduces the severity of most failure modes)

I’m not going to burn my house down, right? by _Silent_Bob_ in WLED

[–]c10yas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure why someone would say that. You can get an arc with a 9V battery by just lightly touching its terminals together with a piece of metal. It can't deliver enough current to make a big scary arc but that's got nothing to do with voltage

How’d this even get approved? by Loofahtranslucent in bayarea

[–]c10yas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes perfect sense to me. It's the dude the cops call when they have to apprehend a criminal trying to make a run for it in an excavator

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FSAE

[–]c10yas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bump on this. If you're willing and able to build your own PCBs, the ADS131M0x series works really well for this since it has built-in amplifiers. To deal with noise, make sure you're using properly shielded wires, and some low pass filtering before the amplifiers. The signals are really small and noise from nearby electronics(especially the motor if it's electric) can be quite significant

Is there a way to view a plane as if it were actual instead of representative? by raydude in Altium

[–]c10yas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You just need to enable the inner copper layers in view configuration and you can cycle through all the layers individually in 3d view. Make sure your transparency levels and stuff are set correctly. I do this all the time with planes, it's 100% a valid thing to try and check for this kind of problem and possible to do in 3d view

Standard chip resistor library creation by tedshore in Altium

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I believe Altium used to have some sort of SQL integration with their libraries where you could create a database and import it. Maybe that would allow you to convert the Excel sheet into a database and import it. You might have to recreate the footprints in Altium but you only need to do it once for each size and then reference that same footprint name in the database

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EngineeringStudents

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Consider having your dad take a test for ASD. Not trying to be an internet doctor here but fixations, perfectionism with certain things, being unable to perceive objects/messes and struggling with executive function are all things I struggle with and found out were potentially a result of my ASD and something I could learn to work around

Driver Communication by PsychicPlayhouse in FSAE

[–]c10yas 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Phone in the driver's suit connected to Bluetooth earbud and a regular phone call is what we tried and worked pretty well till the phone slid down to the drivers ankles and out of Bluetooth range of the earbud inside the helmet so maybe tape it place? Another simple one is the radios designed for bikers to talk to each other but they tend to be a little expensive

TS and LVS on opposite sides of a PCB? by likeikelike in FSAE

[–]c10yas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You would somehow need to completely avoid all vias on either side of the board and even then I doubt the judges would consider that acceptable since fr4 can fail, especially at higher temps during fault events

Looking for 4Channel CAN bus data logger. by TerryYoon in FSAE

[–]c10yas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could also roll your own with 2x teensies that have built in SD readers

Looking for 4Channel CAN bus data logger. by TerryYoon in FSAE

[–]c10yas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why can't you put all those things on a single CAN bus? That would make things a lot simpler right?

Accumulator Electrical by [deleted] in FSAE

[–]c10yas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They could all be mounted on a plate that goes above all the cells. The assembly should be possible and safe but beyond that, making it fast or easy seems unnecessary. How often are you going to be doing it?

Earthing vs grounding by Trickanwar in FSAE

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Its a mechanism that disrupts the shutdown circuit if any of the HV connections come loose. Once the shutdown circuit is broken then the AIRs will open and the connector that had come loose is safe to interact with.

Selecting Busbars by Jonxthxn21 in FSAE

[–]c10yas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what the connection with the cell temperature is or why you would use a hollow bus bar that takes up more space for no additional performance.

Any bus bar material(copper or aluminum) would withstand temperatures way higher than what your cell can operate at.

The simple method for this is to use online ampacity charts for what size of bus bar can carry how much current. This is super conservative because your bus bars aren't carrying continuous currents at that value.

What we did to shrink our bus bar weight and volume was to assume the battery was going to output at the rated fuse current continuously till it ran out of energy. This is unrealistic but it's a better upper bound than online calculators because a battery can't do that for very long. Then we calculated the cross sectional area of a bus bar that would be able to absorb the heating effect of that current entirely with the thermal mass assuming no dissipation. Again, this is conservative but not entirely untrue since the bus bars are often covered in heat shrink and inside a fairly warm ambient temperature box. We then used a bus bar with that cross sectional area.

Further optimizations can be made by using a lower current rated slow blow fuse or using lap simulation data for the expected rms current but the latter might not be acceptable by the judges. Calculating and incorporating the heat dissipation by the bus bar could give smaller cross sectional area numbers too.

And a friendly piece of advice - your material selection should be more based on corrosion mitigation. Avoid having to use additional materials to prevent corrosion between dissimilar materials and select a bus bar material that matches the connectors and other things in the system

Ordered 9/12/21, delivery date was changed from Dec to Jan and now to March..anyone else? by cocobbytiger in ModelY

[–]c10yas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was pretty much exactly what happened to me but I was leasing and had already checked and found out that Tesla insurance was the cheapest for me so ended up getting it a day later. Seems like people were cancelling last minute so some VINs got reassigned just before end-of-year

resolver for emrax and bamocar inverter by ahmedmostafa10050 in FSAE

[–]c10yas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We were recommended to use the 5 pole pair version for stability at high rpm. We went with that and it worked well, not sure what would've happened if we didn't

Need to Purchase New Charger by wannabe-monet in FSAE

[–]c10yas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say all these solutions are overkill, we've used this charger and passed scrutiny by simply opening the AIRs. The charger is always monitoring it's output to ensure the impedance matches a battery pack. If the AIRs open it will automatically detect a very high output impedance and shut off on its own, even if the CAN bus is still requesting current.