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167. Electrical Lighting Distribution Schematic Illustr…
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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

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  • Ian Lucero plus 3 months ago
    Wow nice. Nice choice of music. Haven't heard that tune in a long time!
  • I know, right...I had some trouble picking the perfect song..this was alright for it. <3
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  • Moayad Hassan plus 3 months ago
    You deserve an A+ for this ;)
  • haha if only you were my teacher....actually he is cool he liked it.
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  • Stephen Lewis plus 3 months ago
    Holy Garbanzo Beans! I woulda just said "Screw it! We're hiring the Energizer Bunny!"
  • a 630 amp bunny
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  • CocteauBoy plus 3 months ago
    And Karen said, "Let There Be Light!"
  • shazam!
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  • Sébastien Abes plus 3 months ago
    Four tet :D <3
  • <3<3
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  • Mike Hutcherson plus 3 months ago
    wouldn't it be cool if you could do this in Illustrator actually at this speed.
  • Funny story, this was actually a real time rendering of it all. hahaha
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  • Stewart Schuster 3 months ago
    Whoa...
  • om nom nom nom!
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  • nshack 3 months ago
    It really felt like you were connecting wires, not just painted lines. That was cool to watch. Radical.
  • good thing i didn't blow any fuses! hee hee
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  • Blake Whitman staff 3 months ago
    fun times.
  • maybe if i can come back to the office, i can rewire all the lights? maybe? plzkthnxbye
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  • ße ωell ;-) plus 3 months ago
    :)

    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!
  • olllala i didn't know that you were well versed in the electrical field. Yeah your help definitely would've been handy.

    Luckily the final isn't wiring...actually it might be....but not drawings..the real deal..hahaha

    BOOM

    beep boop! hee hee
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  • Dylan Glockler 3 months ago
    Oh Gee, I guess I'll just whip up a video WHILE I'm doing my homework. Are you ever NOT making a video? Wait... is that you peeping in my window. I see your snoot.
  • creeper, you get out of my room..ps you left your snoot on my dolly.

    <3
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  • Tommy Penner plus 3 months ago
    Oh word, this this so much more complex than anything in the circuits class I took a few years ago. It's almost elegant looking.

    (It's still kind of engineering work, so *almost* elegant.)
  • haha I know..well I'm also a girl, so I had to put my little feminine touch to it..hence the bright colors and squigglies. hahaha. I wouldn't be able to live with myself it was pencil on lined paper.
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  • paulo pinto 3 months ago
    WOW... you really study a lot!! ;) made another video that you totally dont understand a thing of what they are saying! SORRY but please check it out ;) jumo the talking parts!!!!
  • hahah yeah I do study a lot. Grad School means a lot to me. I'll check out your vid in a bit.
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  • Olivier Blaecke 3 months ago
    Stop doing videos and do your homework !
  • I can't help it, this is my life. haha.
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  • edvard brun 3 months ago
    First time a schematic ever made me laugh! The music was perfect, too.
  • hee hee :-) Thanks Edvard
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  • Nic 3 months ago
    Good job. Reminds me of a day when I had too much coffee. Keep in mind that 9A total load on the neutral is back at the generator, after the individual neutral currents have canceled out. Some of the cables there actually have large neutral currents.

    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?
  • That is kinda random that you found my video that way. I'm good friends with Mike Ambs, that's probably why.

    This is Illustrator..I drew everything by hand. And the screen capture was done with Snapz Pro X. :-)
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  • Nic 3 months ago
    and apparently a Stephen Lewis fan too. Yeah, Mike does some amazing work (and doesn't know how good he is).
  • haha Truth.
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  • SalvaTRON 3 months ago
    i am impresssssssed
  • Thanks friend !
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  • Von Marie Donato 2 months ago
    my .....brain.....hurts....
    reminds me why I stay away from the electric dept.

    On another note, great work in Illustrator. Very organized illustration.
  • this reminds ME why I need to stay away from the electrical dept. Being a best boy electric is not in my cards.
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  • sodazot 2 months ago
    hehe, nice process.. especially love illuminators @)
  • Thanks!
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  • Gert Kracht plus 2 months ago
    With work like this...you can start working at our company tomorrow.
  • Haha. Oh you!
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