SPARTAN Superway Personal Blog (Spring Week 8)

A DC DC converter and a charger are needed to be integrated into the BMS system. The supercapacitors' voltage drops over the discharging time but the motor controller would need a constant power input. A DC DC converter can stabilize the power output to operate the motor controller.

The charger the team is looking at would need to support CANbus communication, a widely used communication between controllers and charger in EV field. No charger has been decided though.

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