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jamonwindeyer:
Week 6, Day 2-5

Will start my recount of the rest of this week with my NBN fable. NBN appointment booked for Thursday, coming 8am-12pm. Take morning off work (thank goodness work is flexible). NBN technician arrives at 11:50am (come oooon), do some investigating, find out the reason that I've had no internet for the week is that the bloody technician who installed the new lift phone last Friday unplugged my bloody internet cable. So while I had a signal, it was from the phone in the lift. Thank goodness no one needed it - Maybe my modem would have rung? Ahaha ;)

Still chugging along with the same design - Sent it to the client for first review on Friday afternoon so we'll wait and see what they think! My supervisor is impressed with my work, which is excellent. Still learning loads as I go, my supervisor is great for taking even a simple question and turning it into a little mini lesson on the topic. Takes the time to explain typical techniques for addressing Problem X, even if he knows that we need to do something a little different - Purely for my benefit. Really, really cool.

As an additional crazy coincidence, a graduate started work with us this week, and they were from UNSW! What's more, they were my lab demo in my very first ELEC subject (pretty sure, was definitely one of the first ones)! Craaaaaazy.

jamonwindeyer:
Week 7

Not much to report this week to be honest! Chugged away at the design a little bit more - After a review with my supervisor he's set me the target to be finished by Friday next week (this week, as I'm writing). I think this will be tough, but manageable. We're pretty much down to checks at this point, and...

Breaking news - We're actually going to be using a formula at work. Shock. Awe. Horror. Legit the first time I've done a calculation in what is now an aggregate total of 5 months work experience.

But yeah, calculating whether our panel is physically able to dissipate enough heat to keep our electronic components operating at an acceptable temperature. Have done a layout to check that our PLC, terminals, relays and circuit breakers fit in our control panel (very tight squeeze), need to do the same for the distribution panel. As a side note, far out, the rules for panels that have 415V in them are pretty intense. Opening the door needs to cut the power, and even with that, nothing live can be visible or touchable by an operator. Covers on all screws, everything behind guards. Yikes.

Likely to be a busy but exciting week - Have enjoyed working on this project, and would happily work on it longer, but excited to move on to the next thing :)
Managed to get another two runs in this week, as well as some mini-circuit stuff at home when it was raining. Going to aim for three runs this week since I've got no family catch ups or anything to steal an afternoon away. Also getting really good on the grocery bill, this week was only $40!! ;D

jamonwindeyer:
Weeks 8-10

I've been slack lately! Thought I'd do a big update to celebrate the long weekend ;)

The last three weeks have been intense. In the last update at the end of Week 7 the plan was to finish at the end of Week 8 - I actually got there! Pushed hard and got it to the stage where the client could come in and review it. It was an interesting experience working through the design, because I needed to articulate the key points of it to various people of various technical backgrounds. I think that I need to improve in how I adapt my language to discuss it with different people, to suit their level of knowledge. I'll keep getting better here, as I'm also helping my boss write a set of instructions for an operator to be able to use and maintain our design.

So that review happened in Week 9 (last week), and the client was happy with the direction we had taken and the choices we had made. A few edits, nothing major - This week was mostly spent tidying up the drawings. We did a review towards the end and figured out that we need to change how one of the cabinets is arranged. This sounds like a small change, but it means changes to every drawing to match new wire numbers and codes and stuff. This is what I've figured out really quick - Seemingly small changes can pack a lot of work behind them. On the plus side, this has got me asking way more questions and clarifying things more often, which was a goal of mine heading into the placement. Basically, if I don't ask and I push on with something that isn't quite there, I can literally waste a whole day of work. So I'm being very careful to clarify proactively rather than retroactively.

So, Week 11 will be polishing, Week 12 will be finalising and approving - Then hopefully done! That will mark the halfway point for my placement, and I'm keen to move on to the next thing. Crazy to think I've spent like 300 hours on this design - Literally mind bending.

jamonwindeyer:
Week 11

DESIGN IS DONE!
Spent this week putting the final touches on the drawings and doing some accompanying documentation. Weeeeeew. Feeling so accomplished looking back at all the work I've put into this and really proud of the finished product!!

I've attached some little screen grabs of the drawings, to maybe put it into context. I promise I haven't been colouring in for three months ;) there ended up being about 60 in total!

Really appropriate that this will wrap up at the halfway point of the placement, excited to move on to something new over the coming weeks :)

This first image shows the layout (to scale) of the main panel with a heap of circuit breakers and switches in it, as well as terminals for wires. The shaded sections are ducts for cables to run between everything, then out of the panel at the bottom.
 


This is the termination diagram for one of the terminal strips, showing a cable coming in and how the individual wires in that cable need to connect. Picture one of those at each end of like 100 cables - Eep.



And this last one is the schematic for electrical connections a few of the instruments in the plant :)

owidjaja:

--- Quote from: jamonwindeyer on April 10, 2018, 07:28:16 pm ---DESIGN IS DONE!
Spent this week putting the final touches on the drawings and doing some accompanying documentation. Weeeeeew. Feeling so accomplished looking back at all the work I've put into this and really proud of the finished product!!


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Ooh all these diagrams look fancy and I don't even know what it is lol (I looked at one of these diagrams for a construction site and I was so lost what the diagram was trying to say lmao). What exactly are you using to design these documentations?

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