Minutes of Meeting.
P1568/D
Recommended Practice for Electrical Sizing of Nickel-Cadmium Batteries for Rail Passenger Cars
Place: Bombardier
Bensalem, PA
Date: June 6, 2000.
Attendees: Jim McDowall
Ted Mavronicolas
Claude Gabriel
Alex Sinyak
Rich Niederberger
Sachit Kakkar
General
The group agreed that we should start our effort with the existing standard that is widely supported and is already in use elsewhere.
Specific Areas Discussed
We started with the IEEE std. 1115.
We will have to make sure that railroad specific requirements are included in the standard.
We started working on the recommendation for defining battery loads and determining battery size.
Action Items
Our next step is a preparation of the draft standard.
At the next meeting, which is scheduled for September 2000, we will review the first sections of the draft standard.