NTC thermistor used in Tesla Hyperloop Pod

Hyperloop pod, which has won many awards, uses NTC thermistor
An engineer team uses NTC thermal resistance in their high -speed transport pod design. The thermistor is accurately induced to induced the temperature and creates the heat map of the application.

TESLARATI recently conducted an exclusive interview with the BadgerLoop team. Three winners of the SPACEX company's ultra-circuit train pod design contest in January-Place. The ultra -circuit train is the "fifth mode" of the Tesla CEO Elon musk, of which a pod passenger at a high -speed thrust through a low pressure tube.
BadgerLoop is one of the many designs of this pod. The design of its Wisconsin University team also won the pod technology excellence in SpaceX activities.

In the interview, BillLoop member Bill Carpenter described Badgerloop as a "real friction cycling" in a active system, allowing the team to control the speed of the pod. The article states that these speeds "reach 200+ miles/h" within 15 seconds.

NTC thermistor "Hot Map"
Due to speed, Eric Amikam, the head of the Badgerloop Electric Team, said that their pod has more than 100 sensors, including "various thermistor resistance in pods", thereby creating a "hot map". The team uses this map to monitor and control the temperature of the pod motor. If the motor is overheated, the team can use this control to turn it off.

"For any design, calories are your enemies. We discussed the use of NTC thermistor temperature sensors in the Hyperloop pod.

He said electrical engineers are trying to remove calories from their equipment. As the BadgerLoop team does, the heat source needs to be drawn.

Why choose NTC thermistor?
"There is no better device than thermistor -it provides real -time feedback."

SAMII said that this is the primary reason for NTC thermal resistance for such devices. The response time is the fastest, the readings are the most accurate, and the most common packaging (RTD and thermocouple are too large to install the pod, and install it as a problem).

Because the BadgerLoop team is trying to create a hot picture, which contains many NTC thermistor temperature sensors, the ability to accurately measure the temperature at a single point to accurately measure the temperature is necessary. Because their design is in the prototype mode, the NTC thermistor temperature sensor can help the team to view the heat of the pod motor transmission, as low as ± 0.1˚C.

The most important thing is that rapid response time is essential. SAMII said that without it, the heat in the motor may cause damage to the pod before the team performs close measurement.

What kind of NTC thermistor?
BadgerLoop is most likely to use precision switching thermal resistance-for example, our own ACCU-Curve ™ thermistor-or glass packaged NTC thermistor. These motors are usually used between 70 3C and 300˚C, and they are very accurate.

Recently, tesla will NTC thermistor used for its Powerwall, this is a kind of through the solar energy for home appliances rechargeable battery.