
Electrical Lighting Distribution Schematic Illustration Timelapse
3 months ago
This is a timelapse of an assignment I received for my graduate school lighting 2 course. I am not a math-minded person, so this assignment took me about 12 hours to complete. The parameters of the assignment were to exhibit the following:
* main power supply
* feeder cable
* distribution boxes
* extension cables
* additional breakout boxes
* lamp placement
* the following lights in proper distribution with minimal load on neutral on either a single phase or triple phase distribution:
2 - 9 Light Maxie Brutes Mole Pars
2 - 9 Light Fays
2 - 1,200W HMI Pars
4 - Mickey Moles
6 - Mighty Moles
4 - 6K Space Lights
3 - Betweenies
4 - Tweenies
1 - 100W China Ball
If I learned anything at all from this assignment, it was that my mind was not made to function as a Best Boy.
Finished schematic: farm4.static.flickr.com/3503/3942837524_05d4ded76b_o.jpg
* main power supply
* feeder cable
* distribution boxes
* extension cables
* additional breakout boxes
* lamp placement
* the following lights in proper distribution with minimal load on neutral on either a single phase or triple phase distribution:
2 - 9 Light Maxie Brutes Mole Pars
2 - 9 Light Fays
2 - 1,200W HMI Pars
4 - Mickey Moles
6 - Mighty Moles
4 - 6K Space Lights
3 - Betweenies
4 - Tweenies
1 - 100W China Ball
If I learned anything at all from this assignment, it was that my mind was not made to function as a Best Boy.
Finished schematic: farm4.static.flickr.com/3503/3942837524_05d4ded76b_o.jpg
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I wish I'd known about your little assignment earlier, I could have leant a hand. As well as Ohm's law, there is also a very important law regarding the distribution of electrical current: Kirchhoff's circuit laws (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_circuit_laws) - every Best Boy knows these laws ;-)
Good luck with the final assignment, i just hope I don't come across any of your future wiring (jk :-)
beep beep boop boop!
Luckily the final isn't wiring...actually it might be....but not drawings..the real deal..hahaha
BOOM
beep boop! hee hee
<3
(It's still kind of engineering work, so *almost* elegant.)
If you had a choice (and you often don't) you would put your largest loads closest to the generator. That reduces the voltage drop to the other loads, and gives you better voltage regulation (when loads are turned on and off, the voltage will jump around). But in the real world the generator is often far away (on purpose) from where you need the lights. So your only choice may be to use very big cables or home run the large loads back to a point closer to the generator without daisy chaining them.
It's odd I would find your link when searching for Santa Barbara and Goleta locals. There are a lot less than six degrees of separation on the net! I know you 'cuz you're a Project Pedal fan :)
So what layout app is that, and what did you use to do the time-lapse capture?
This is Illustrator..I drew everything by hand. And the screen capture was done with Snapz Pro X. :-)
reminds me why I stay away from the electric dept.
On another note, great work in Illustrator. Very organized illustration.