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Provide power for a small rover

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PowerDistribution

This design is for a small wiring board to provide power to a robotic rover.

It's designed in 3 sections.

Part 1: High Current ESC Pads

This part is 3 thick traces without masking to push high voltage/current power in a short segment. It is completely unfused, and should be pushed to a smart, power-hungry board like an ODrive. The lack of masks is to enable solder as a wire for high-current and voltage use cases.

Part 2: Battery Monitoring

This part has 2 SMD resistors in a simple voltage divider circuit. The resistor values chosen are 22M-ohm (RMCF0805FT22M0) and 1M-ohm(RC0805FR-071ML. This enables voltage detection on a Teensy 4.1 from 0 to 50V.

Part 3: Switch and buck converters

A large swtich pad for a single pole, single throw switch, a small pad buck converter for a raspberry pi or other SBC, and 2 large pads for very high-current buck converters for Star-power servos. For the switch, Amazon part number: B078KBC5VH For the RPi Buck converter, Amazon part number: B079N9BFZC For the Star-Power converter, Amazon part number: B0819Y8PJZ