{"id":619,"date":"2015-10-08T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/?p=619"},"modified":"2015-10-08T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T09:17:10","slug":"designing-the-power-subsystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/2015\/10\/08\/designing-the-power-subsystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing the power subsystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One group of our electronics students from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/\">ECS<\/a> department at the University is designing the power subsystem of UoS<sup>3<\/sup>. The subsystem comprises of all the components that will gather the energy from the solar panels, deliver it to the loads at the voltage they need, and store the excess in the batteries to be used when the satellite is in Earth&#8217;s shadow. Even though the work just started last week the students are powering through and the power subsystem architecture has emerged already, thanks to our <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/2015\/09\/20\/power-subsystem-prototype-completed\/\">intern&#8217;s work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_620\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/10\/Block-diagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-620\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/10\/Block-diagram-300x214.png\" alt=\"The concept of the architecture of the power subsystem of UoS3. This is engineering at its finest!\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/10\/Block-diagram-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/10\/Block-diagram-1024x729.png 1024w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/10\/Block-diagram-200x142.png 200w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/10\/Block-diagram-900x641.png 900w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/10\/Block-diagram.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The concept of the architecture of the power subsystem of UoS<sup>3<\/sup>. <b>This<\/b> is engineering at its finest!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One group of our electronics students from the ECS department at the University is designing the power subsystem of UoS3. The subsystem comprises of all the components that will gather the energy from the solar panels, deliver it to the loads at the voltage they need, and store the excess in the batteries to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}