Nigel Flower Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Northampton, United Kingdom

Leading the dyno electrical support team at cosworth maintaining, setting up test equipment and calibrating all 10 dyno`s including support for test rigs and the test installation of engines and electric E motor setups.Fault finding of engine installs including fault finding of engine loom and sensor installation.I am also training on the build of hybrid and all electric battery pack assembly and testing functions of battery packs and E motors including hybrid inverters and battery monitoring systems.

Northampton

Responsibilities:More of an engineering type role.design of electrical side of test rigs.Test rig build.calibration of dyno plant and engine side sensors.organising of work for others.guiding others on best practices.design using Autocad for 2d electrical schematics only.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Came back when Cosworth returned to formula 1 to build and test the engine sensors and looms for the CA engine for use from the 2010 f1 season onwards.Helping to rebuild and redesign new engine sensors and convert the engine over to the Tag Maclaren ecu using Atlas software.Building dyno looms to Raychem standards using all moulded parts and Milspec 55 spec wire from 14 AWG to 30 AWG size conductors.A change of role to work as Dyno Electrical support.Responsibilities: Installing the engines electrically onto the dyno.Fault finding on dyno breakdowns Water brake and eddy current dynos froude hoffman and schenke.fault finding Dyno valves using oscilloscopes and other test equipment.Breakdown of Drive systems absorption and regenerating Unico motor drives and the setup and fault diagnosis of kinetrol valves using 4-20mA current loop test equipment Fluke and Beamex MC5 and MC6 calibration unit.installing Flowmeters setting up and calibrating these include hall effect and inductive pickup units and recently the introduction of coriolis flowmeters.installation and calibration of analogue and digital signal and control equipment, strain gauge setup and calibration, isolated signal amplifier setup for dyno to etas,Kisler and rotec test equipment.Fault finding of differential signal and torque meter systems mainly torquetronic.Cell calibration PRT,thermocouple and pressure transducer cals using Adacs System and CP Cadet system.Some Experience of Horiba equipment mainly integration into Dyno setups.2017 involved in the installation of all electrical and electronic equipment for three new dyno refurbs from empty Cell through to final commissioning with an Exceptional Team of technicians and engineers both mechanical and electrical both low voltage and 3 phase installations. 3 phase and single phase competent and can fault find to a high level using Relevant test equipment.Design and build 3 phase control panels including the mechanical build of the panels.

Wellingborough

World touring car and Lmp1 electrical car builds.Setting up dash loggers and installing ecus (motec)and Rml`s own in car camera systems.Fault finding electronic and electrical car faults.Sensor design and Testing using proven techniques and equipment.Drawings of sensors and looms using Visio and Harnware packages.constructing Boms for sensor builds to be sent to external contractors.Portable appliance testing for RML completed city and guilds certficate.Involved with the conversion of the SLR McLaren into the track going SLR McLaren 722 GT.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Design of wiring looms and sensors first offs for development testing before installation to the engine. new coils for testing, new alternator designs ,extending the life of uego sensors, Lvdt testing procedures.collating data to be presented and used by the Design engineer to create new or improved engine sensors.development of new techniques for potting of sensors to extend sensor life.visiting Jaguar racing to measure and buid test looms for the car and engine intergration.Testing of all sensors using equipment such as function generator, oscilloscope,Dvm, high voltage insulation test equipment.Wiring loom and sensor build using Proven build techniques to F1 standards using Hellerman,Raychem moulded boots , and DR 25.Motorsport crimping techniques and soldering to a high standard using Metcal soldering equipment.Testing of alternators, ignition coils,ignition boxes,tps testing,crank and cam sensor testing.Department pressure transducer specialist using Druck sensors Gauge,Absolute and differential sensor testing. Evironmental testing using a vibration and temperature chamber for testing of pcb`s using track data collected to simulate car vibration frequencies and thermal shock testing for components.

Wellingborough

Electrical design of control panels 3 phase and low voltage control systems conveyors and machines.machine installation, inverter drives, pid controllers.breakdown of machinery and control systems mainly food industry.commissioning of new systems inverter drives single and 3 phase, plc fault finding.Control panel build and test.onsite installation and commisioning

Level 2 Award In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Operation And Maintenance, Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Level 2

Bs7671 18Th Edition, Electrical Installation

Electrical Engineering, Onc Electrical And Electronic Engineering

Testing, City And Guilds 2377 Portable Appliance Testing

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