Philip McGaw has over a decade of professional electronics experience, in EMC, Testing and Research and Development

Philip enjoys working within a fast-paced R&D environment developing innovative solutions to allow for testing complex systems within regulatory framework testing, Hardware in the Loop, or production line testing of prototypes through to final products.

Philip can apply his Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering backgrountld and his skills in 3D Printing, rapid prototyping and Embedded Systems to develop and test innovative hardware solutions for Devices under test, recently this has included Electric Vehicles and Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment. Previously this also included hardware supplied for testing by customers.

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Philip McGaw’s Recent Posts

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  Setting up BlueOS for a Remote Operated Robot
  BlueOS is Blue Robotics Raspberry Pi software to control ROVs, it combines the functionality required to control robots and low-cost hardware
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  Building up Ian Hughes’ K9 Body
  Ian Hughes has done a lot of work on making a 3D-printable K9. Details of Doctor Who’s K-9 and other science-fiction models can be found on his Patreon page. I am currently working on printing the external parts for the main body, The parts are printed on our Prusa MK3 3D printer using a mix of random PLA (Polylactic acid) filaments. However, I am mostly using PLA+ from eSUN. I have managed to get the bottom ring printed out so far, this is the sections at the bottom edge of the image to the right. Unlike the diagram to the… Read more: Building up Ian Hughes’ K9 Body
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  EMC Charts and Graphs
  Plotting EMC limit charts in Microsoft Excel is unfortunately quite hard, Standards like CISPR 11 and CISPR 25 make use of Log/Log graphs.
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  Adding SCPI to Arduino Test Equipment
  Make an item of test equipment that can respond to SCPI (IEEE-488.1) commands. including *IDN?, *OPT? and *TST
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  Hardware Version Numbers
  To encode the Hardware Revision number, so that we know what the version numbers of the main PCB is and is available to the Microcontroller.

Philip McGaw’s previous responsibilities

Projects that Philip McGaw has worked on previously have included:

• Commissioning of the new EMC, and electrical test facilities
• Designing EV EVSE test equipment.
• Development of design validation plans (DVP) and procedures for Electric vehicles (EV) components to meet industry standards [ISO 16750, CISPR 25, ECE Regulation 10, ISO 10605, ISO 11452, ISO 7637] and company requirements.
• Performing validation tests for EV components – HV traction inverters, ECU, DCDC, BMS, ADAS, HMI, etc.) .
• Performing R&D and functional tests, fault analysis for new EV component designs.
• Performing tests with Vector CANalyzer environment, Python, and Matlab/Simulink scripts.
• Preparation and release of test reports, hardware bug tracking via Atlassian Jira/Confluence