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What is a Wiring Diagram and How to Read it?
Do you have struggles reading and using an electrical wiring diagram? If yes, don't worry! By end of this video, you'll have a good understanding of how to read, understand, and use any wiring diagram for your benefit.
An electrical wiring diagram could be a single-page schematic of how a ceiling fan should be connected to the power source and its remote switches so that we can turn it on and off.
A wiring diagram may include the wiring of a vehicle. For example, how the horns are powered and connected to the controller on your steering wheel.
Or an electrical wiring diagram can be a 200-page document including all the electrical wirings of an electrical control panel in a huge factory or plant.
Wiring diagrams may follow different standards depending on the country they are going to be used. They may have different layouts depending on the company and the designer who is designing that.
They also may be drawn by different ECAD software such as EPLAN or AutoCAD electrical. So, when you see a wiring diagram for the first time, you may need some time to analyze it and become familiar with its layout and symbols.
During this video, you'll learn about different things like wire tags and some electrical components and their symbols such as terminal blocks, terminal strips, circuit breakers, power supplies, ground chassis, safety relays, and so on.
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SECTIONS of this video:
0:00 What is a Wiring Diagram?
1:39 First things first! Wiring Diagram Symbols Introduction
3:02 How to read wiring diagrams (Reading Directions)
4:00 What is a Terminal Strip?
4:18 Wiring diagrams in the neutral condition (NO and NC Contacts)
5:04 What is a Wire Tag? (and Device Tag)
6:05 Addressing System in Wiring Diagrams (Examples)
7:11 Relays in Electrical Wiring Diagram
7:46 24-Volt Power Supply
8:10 Double-deck Terminal Blocks (double-level terminal blocks)
8:39 Electrical Interlocks (What is electrical interlocking?)
10:14 What will you learn in the next video?
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This is honestly the first useful IEC wiring diagram tutorial I have ever seen and I have looked occasionally for several years. Reading these diagrams is something most must learn on-the-job, so this is a great tool for speeding up that process. This is even great for seasoned controls workers in the US where we usually use the horizontal ladder style and IEC drawings from Europe can be unfamiliar.

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Hey, Isaac! Thank you very much for the input and we're really happy that you liked it this much! We'll try to cover more actual wiring diagrams from different industries and some of the US-compatible ones. Please stay tuned!

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I agree with you! I sent this video to a student who just got a job and was not sure how diagrams work. From the different factories I've worked in at industry, I think this "rule of thumb" style overview is amazing and I wish I'd had it when I started. Also American and the standards are alike enough from country to country for this to be 100% useful.

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Thank you, as an apprentice, ive always found it difficult to read these. I work in industry, and it always take a lot of time to read diagrams like these. And this video helps

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Good video, its difficult to explain to young engineers when it comes to electrical drawings of different types and ages. Many industrial sites will have electrical drawings as old as the oldest equipment and from many manufacturers also.

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When’s the next video please it was amazing! Please can you upload the wiring diagrams to your page so we can print them off and go through them while watching your video

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Hey! Thank you for your comment. The next part of this video will be published next week on Monday (December 28th). About the files, I will transfer your comment to the tech team to prepare and upload them to the website so that you can download them in the next video. Let us know if we can be of any further help.

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Awesome, liked and subscribed.. I have little knowledge on how to read wiring diagrams but this was well explained 👍🏻

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Great and useful video that will be used as a supplemental teaching resource. My only request would be to show a couple of pictures of the equipment that this schematic is being used for.

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Excellent tutorial. Thank you. Do you know if the mentioned software tools allow for consistency checks when there are cross-references of components/wires among the sheets?

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