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brenden:

--- Quote from: jamonwindeyer on February 02, 2018, 09:20:32 pm ---Week 2
 a minute once you add my pedantic checks at regular intervals to make sure everything is working.

--- End quote ---
LeBron

jamonwindeyer:
Week 3

Me: Hey boss, did you want me to do any more work on that design for that client from last week?

Boss: Yes actually, could you do it for me?

Me: Yeah absolutely, what did you need me to do?

Boss: It. Can you do the whole design for me?

Me: ....

So yeah, was an interesting week! Have never designed anything even remotely to the scale of what this design was - Like, he essentially asked a six year old to paint the Mona Lisa. Whether it was to keep me from asking for more work for a while or to give me a chance to expose myself to new stuff in the quickest possible way, don't really mind, because it's really cool! Learning as I go and asking what are probably really obvious questions to anyone who has done it before, but learning loads!

So far I've sketched out some basic block diagrams and made a list of the cables that we'll need and exactly where they need to run between. This week will be spent figuring out exactly how to wire in each piece of equipment, figuring out how much power we'll need to run the thing, and figuring out what circuit breakers and other safety devices we'll need to keep everyone happy and safe. This last bit I've learnt literally nothing about at university (common theme) so will definitely be getting loads of help :)


Was meant to post this earlier but spent the entire weekend with my partner and family and didn't get the chance.

Currently driving back to Sydney every weekend - I sort of told myself I'd start staying weekends once I got into a rhythm, but honestly, I just don't see it happening. Going from seeing my partner every other day (well, almost every day for the last few months actually) to only on weekends is a serious adjustment, as is not being at the family home 5/7 nights. Don't know if I could do a fortnight :(

jamonwindeyer:
Week 4

Kept pressing on with the aforementioned design all through the week! Essentially still figuring out what I'm doing as I'm doing it, but I'm learning a heap about stuff that I've just never touched before, which is fantastic.

Think what I've taken away from this week more than anything is the huge number of requirements for a design to be "up to standard." Further, just how much trouble those rules can cause. So for example, there is a rule in the Australian wiring guidelines that you need 600mm of clearance in all directions around a switchboard. This design we're doing is in a really confined space, and so my main issue isn't with figuring out what goes where - It's figuring out if we can even have a cabinet wide enough to fit the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) and the modules we need to make the thing tick, and still keep clearance. The wider the panel the further out the door reaches from the wall, and so to make it wider you need to make it thinner, and... Yurk.

Anyway, I think we'll just squeeze it in. This is probably going to be a really boring journal for a few weeks because this design will take a while - But I'll try and pick cool little parts of it to share ;D


In terms of home life, finally got on the NBN. Huzzah. Gotten into a nice routine of grocery shopping on Mondays, so far so good on sticking to my $50 budget without resorting to a diet of instant noodles! Went for a run, only a few kilometres (I'll say I stopped because family called, but I won't say I wasn't happy to be interrupted ;)), will try and go a few times this week!! I think I'm, 'settled,' so to speak ;D

jamonwindeyer:
Week 5

More designing this week! Feeling really confident with how everything is working and just slowly chugging along with things - I might try and post some images of the more generic drawings at some point ;D

I think my big takeaway from this week was backing myself more. As I was working on the layout of the new panel for our design this week, it was pretty obvious that we weren't going to have the room for all our equipment, while still maintaining the clearances required by the Australian wiring rules. As I'm investigating, I say to myself:

We could stick two smaller panels together to increase the available area without making the door swing larger.

I shoot myself down, because if that was something we could do, surely someone would have come up with it. Lieu and behold, chatting about the design, my supervisor says, "Well, can we get two smaller panels and stick them together?"

Not the first time either, there's been other times on this placement when I've come up with something, called it wrong, then it ended up being right. Really need to trust myself more and just put these ideas out there in the future :)


Two 4-5km runs this week, my Mum and brother came and visited for a night from Sydney which was awesome! I mean, I'd seen them on the weekend, but nice to see them throughout the week like I used to. Apparently my new suburb reminds mum very much of Newtown. Homemade Spag Bowl for dinner was a highlight ;)

jamonwindeyer:
Week 6, Day 1

Bit of a rotten start to the week. Like, not actually - Good day at work, feeling good, etc. But:

1- Stuffed up my file names and ended up overwriting one of my drawings. Couple of hours work, goneskies. At least I've got somewhere to start in the morning.

2- NBN connection down. Went to Officeworks and swapped the modem because I thought based on troubleshooting that it was faulty, but new modem is the same issue. I'm thinking I know what happened. So last night when I got here and the internet was down, I tried adjusting the connection configuration to fix it. I reckon I've screwed that up, and NBN has locked my port.

Top it all off, my 4G Modem that I have as backup? Left that in Sydney. Chewing through my hotspot data atm :(

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