Dave Brown is an Electronics Design Consultant, who spent 10 years in the defence industry learning rigorous design, 12 years in the semiconductor industry putting his experience to good use helping customers do their design, and rounded it all off with 20 years plus as director of the consultancy “Stonely Scientific”, designing everything electronic. For the last 10 years this has been mostly in the automotive industry.

Dave has always worked at the leading edge; on spacecraft control systems; aircraft systems such as Concorde; and the Bugatti Veyron transmission controller (involving an interesting trip at quite high speed round a test track).

For the last five years Dave has designed auxiliary systems for hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, involving high voltage (up to 450V) and high current (up to 80 amps), starting with the concept, and following through to design, layout, product proving, and EMC test.

Dave’s involvement with motorbikes goes back a long way, to the restoration of a 1937 Rudge Special. This was followed by an NSU Quickly, which was tuned to the point where gearboxes lasted weeks at best. It probably afforded the fastest commuting in London traffic of all time.

Reason for joining the project

Dave is joining the team to bring a little balance amongst all of the mechanical engineers, and offer what help he can towards achieving the project goals.