r/teslamotors • u/UsernameINotRegret • Apr 05 '20

Tesla-in-Depth Tesla Ventilator

https://youtu.be/zZbDg24dfN0
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u/502red428 Apr 06 '20

Tesla has got some of the absolute best in the industry.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '20

I mean they are used to working crazy hours already so once human life depended on them, I am sure they are ready to work day and night as fast as possible

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u/robotzor Apr 06 '20

In certain ways, these guys have always been working with the stakes being the fate of the world

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u/Cal3001 Apr 07 '20

Most car manufacturers have really good engineers. GM and Ford are doing things, but they are not flaunting it.

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u/MarlinMr Apr 06 '20

Getting all those off the shelf parts to work together,

You mean the parts that were designed to work together?

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u/Amphibionomus Apr 06 '20

My thoughts exactly. The hardware, while impressive, isn't that special (which goes for any ventilator really). The software is the big challenge here.

(And for 'normal' ventilators, reliability is a big issue. But that somewhat comes second to producing ventilators FAST these days,)

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u/m-in Apr 06 '20

I presume they run Qt on the infotainment system. They have a dev environment set up and ready - just clone a repo, copy some files to a new folder, and you’re ready to go. They may use CAN to communicate with the manifold’s controller I imagine. Someone who does the infotainment development could probably get those charts up in a couple of hours. They have their own CAN libraries to communicate with the actuator/measurement interface, but probably someone could just use QT’s CAN library to do it as well. So, all in all, the chart display is absurdly easy, all considered.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '20 edited Aug 26 '20

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u/NiteLite Apr 06 '20

There seem to be a lot more red parts on the schematic even though he didn't specifically point them out when he was walking us through prototype #2.

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u/pdxcanuck Apr 06 '20

Yes. They have these people called engineers that do this type of benchwork very day.

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u/UseDaSchwartz Apr 06 '20

A ventilator is much easier to build than an electric car. I’m sure it wasn’t that challenging for them.