Promoting Electric Propulsion (PEP)
Promoting Electric Propulsion (PEP) is a collegiate engineering competition, sponsored by the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE), that challenges students to design and build high-performance electric watercraft. The initiative focuses on advancing sustainable maritime technology by tasking teams with optimizing battery systems, motor efficiency, and hull hydrodynamics to achieve maximum speed and endurance. Beyond the race itself, PEP serves as a hands-on workforce development program, preparing future engineers to solve complex systems-integration problems in the growing field of electric marine transportation.
RCCF has competed in PEP since 2024. View our page on ASNE's website here for an overview of our past performance and videos from competition.
About This Documentation:
This library includes documentation for every year RCCF has competed. In each section's overview page, you can find links to our whitepaper and an overview of our performance that year. Additional pages provide meeting notes and detailed documentation. This is meant as a single repository of all the knowledge we have gained over the years of this project.
PEP27
PEP26
Online Calculators
RC Boat Calculator https://www.radiocontrolinfo.com/information/rc-calculators/rc-boat-calculato...
Getting Started
What is this? Hi, this is the documentation for PEP26 from technical notes to project budget. Th...
Electrical System
Parts High Voltage System Contactor: AEV250-ME, rated for 500A 48V buck converter: converter...
Part Specs
Pin Out & Specs Voltage: 14-84V (safe for 3-20S) Continuous Current: 50V/350A,75V/250A ...
PEP25
Navigation
Cube ArduPilot Installation Instructions Telemetry Radio Manual
PEP 2025 Information
Rule book Link Major Rules Requirements Distance: 2 miles Maximum Voltage: 55 V ...
Code
Temperature sensors CAN ports : https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/how-to-send-data-from-arduino-to...
Hull Design
Hull Design - General Notes --------------------------------- Hull Composition: The hull of our...
Notes
11/08/2024 Meeting goals Get ArduPilot up and running on Cube Meeting Notes What was complete...
Propeller Design Research and Specifications
Date: 9/6/24 Meeting goals Research into manufacturing options Metal Resin ASA Rese...
Software Report
How, what, why? Software Goals: Primary Reliable RC Controls for long distance Telemetry da...
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**Abstract** Whether one is prototyping, recreating, or even creating a new unique i...
Propeller Design Research Part 2
Date: 09/17/24 Meeting goals Calculator for approximate propeller thrust given motor specific...
Rudder
9/20/2024 Balanced Barn door rudder which can either be attached from just the top or form a top...
OpenProp Design Parameters
OpenProp Design Parameters - B-series propeller design parameters: Untitled- B-series propeller ...
Motor
9/10/2024 By looking at the possible motors that we have chosen and comparing them with power an...
Motor Controllers
Main motor controller (link) We made the decision to go with the Flipsky 75350. We made this dec...
Batteries
High Power System Batteries (link) We will continue to use out 4 100ah Lithium Iron Phosphate (L...
PCB
Old Boat PCB.zip
Notes
Notes 09/06/24 Meeting goals Meeting Notes List of sensors/control connections fo...
Full System Layout
Full System High Voltage System High Voltage Supply High Voltage Distribution Low V...