Week 6: Understanding Supercapacitor capabilities

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After numerous conference calls with Maxwell representatives, the team has a better idea of the capabilities of the Supercapacitors. Also, Maxwell provided a circuit schematic that interfaces their supercapacitors on LTspice. Retrieving data from the LTspice program is fundamental because it will help us choose how many supercapacitors we might need for the project.
As always, the team meets every Tuesday afternoon to discuss the progress, present new ideas and share new information.
After today's meeting, it was noted that Dr. Furman would like that the bogie to make a round trip (forward and backward) for the Makers Fair. this is important to consider because we have to accommodate wayside power on each end of the guideway

 

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