Week 2- Group meeting after the lab hours



  We organized another meeting after lab hours in the morning.

·      SC confirmed that he had finished testing and everything for the solar panels and charging circuit was working as expected.

·       JX confirmed battery output for 3.6V/3.7V and he and SC confirmed that the charger circuit could withstand no more than a 5V output therefore we agreed to use a 3.7 V input and model the output as 8V with a load current of 800 mA.

·       GC will now redesign the LM2577 chip to work with these values and put another order form for additional components, with the expectation to test his circuit on Friday 17th February.

·    Project documentation was allocated for each member and is as follows:

 

GC = project management forms

SC = poster – GC and JX will communicate across designs as and when needed.

JX = blog

 ·       JX will look into how the USB can connect to the circuit.

 ·    SC will look into the context and agenda for the report, which is to be handed in two weeks after posting the project.


 Next Steps

 ·       Each member will work on their documentation and have that ready before the week 5 deadline, another meeting will commence before then to discuss this.

·       JX to look into the USB connector and do the blog for the 10th Feb lab day and then this meeting.

·       GC to order components and do circuit design to send to JX and SC.

 

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