DC/DC power poll

[Rootthecause]

Hello everyone!
I would like to know how much power your LV system consumes continuously (event conditions) to improve future designs.
For example, reducing the maximum output power would increase efficiency at lower loads.

[leonce-m]

Since cooling fans are limited to 500W now, I can see a lot of teams dropping their crazy power ground battery and supply the fans directly from LV. Add DV motors and you easily reach around 700W, although you could arguably switch the fans off for DV. So I think 500-600W is the sweet spot.

[Rootthecause]

Yes, agree on that!
That's why I've designed it for 750 W peak, because our team is also working on driverless. The older v8 and v9-2 versions already supplyed our driverless vehicles, but I don't know what power was drawn. Currently our LV system draws about 130 W when driving manually. Given that the cooling of the SR-FETs is sufficient, the 750 W could be maintained already with the current version.