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CAD files and software for the launch tower computer (LTC)
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Create schematic sheet for LTC3 power in #22

Closed nellump closed 8 years ago

nellump commented 9 years ago

A placeholder sheet ("Power In") already exists. This schematic should contain circuitry related to the solar cell and lab power inputs (connectors, conditioning, etc.). Refer to the design spec and LTC2 schematics for guidance.

Please do not commit your work to the repo's "master" branch. Create a new branch. We can merge to "master" when you're finished.

austinjoseph commented 9 years ago

Taking a shot at this. Are we just going to use pins for the power in? I'm looking at other options (XLR) because it seems like it would be nice if things were uniform and easily plugged in unplugged. Thoughts?

EDIT: XLR specifically can't find anything with enough current capacity, but are there other power interfaces we should look at?

nellump commented 9 years ago

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 07:25:26AM -0700, austinjoseph wrote:

Taking a shot at this. Are we just going to use pins for the power in? I'm looking at other options (XLR) because it seems like it would be nice if things were uniform and easily plugged in unplugged. Thoughts?

Unless we want to mount the connectors directly to the board, and then deal with mounting the board in the enclosure so that it's flush with the sides (all of which sounds like extra work), we should probably go with something generic like Eurostyle connectors on the board, which can then be wired up to the external connectors mounted on the enclosure.

nellump commented 8 years ago

Ancient issue; no longer relevant.