Week 4: Day 3

This Friday I started the project. I'm working with Viktoria, Moh, and Junhee.

 Design and describe/explain a circuit diagram to show how you would wire all of the lights and appliances (outlets) on one floor of your house.  This should include an investigation of how much power (wattage) each light and appliance uses to determine the total electrical load required.

We decided to use my house for the diagram, and we hope to meet up on a weekend to plan it out.

Requirements

1.     Accurate circuit diagram with proper labels.  The design should be WHAT YOU WANT IT TO BE, not necessarily what it actually is.  So if you think there are outlets missing from certain rooms or that there should be more switches or that the switches should be in different places, etc. then go ahead and design it that way.

2.     Schematic drawing of floor plan showing the wiring, switches, appliances and lighting with appropriate labels (including power loads required for each appliance/light)

3.     A regularly updated project/unit journal

4.     A written description of your design including an explanation of the science, which influenced your work and a description of the electric power (wattage) required to run all of the lights and appliances in your diagram.

Today we started working on the drawing plans of the house. We did the upper floors, accounting for anything that may use electricity.  It took up most of the class. Viktoria and I planned most of it, dividing the workload between number one and two between each other and with Junhee. Moh will be helping, but most of his work will be for number 4.

We all will be doing our individual journals for number 3 on this blog.

At home I decided to go over the videos and lab reports (one last time) so I can get ready for the quiz.