House Project: Part 20

Here you can see the final product of the house. We placed cover plates on all of the boxes and receptacles. You can also see that my mentor has placed the breaker switches at the bottom of the house. In the second picture, you can see we powered the panel which provided power to the entire house.

Being able to work with Mr. Caputo and his staff was an amazing experience! When I began this internship, I never thought I would be able to complete a project like this!

House Project: Part 19

  

We are almost finished here! All of the boxes are wired and everything is in place for the most part. The only thing missing is the breaker panel that my mentor will be helping me with.

House Project: Part 18

The only thing left at this point are the receptacles and the bottom panel. You can see that the top receptacles are hanging because I had just finished wiring all of them. We are missing a couple in the kitchen because those are GFI receptacles. A GFI is a ground fault circuit interrupter, its only used anywhere where water is used. It made so that if water was to make its way into the receptacle it would kill the rest of the circuit so no one would get electrocuted.

House Project: Part 17

All of the lights have been finished. You can see some orange wire nuts at the top of the house. We had to change some of the wire nuts out because when we put in the receptacles, they were not going to fit in the metal boxes.

House Project: Part 16

 

Right here I have all of the lights and light switches wired and done. If you look closely, you can see that I wrapped all of the exposed wire nuts with electrical tape. My mentor explained that if the exposed wire nuts touch the metal box it would kill the circuit.

House Project: Part 15

  

Now that all of the wires are in the boxes, my mentor showed me how to wire the lights and the light switches. You can see in the pictures that some of the lights and light switches are hanging off the house. My mentor told me not to screw them in because in a real life job, there will always be a rough inspection to make sure the lights and light switches were done to code. 

House Project: Part 14

      

These pictures are from behind the house. We had a couple of rooms where we couldn't just run one circuit per room. We had to make a third box to run from the rooms and tie them together. Then we could run that box back to the panel so it could provide power to the rooms. You can see in the first two pictures that we tied the grounds, hots, and neutrals all together.

House Project: Part 13

At this point, we completed almost all of the wiring. We just finished screwing in the boxes and tying together the ground cables. All the yellow nuts you see in this picture are the grounds being tied together.

House Project: Part 12

 

My mentor and I decided to use metal boxes for the house. Therefore, we had to ground every single box with a ground wire because that is part of the New Jersey electrical code. Every green wire on the house board is a ground wire.

House Project: Part 11

Now that all of the boxes have been wired to the panel, I secured all of the boxes with half inch screws.

House Project: Part 10

Here you can see I finished wiring all of the boxes. They all are wired from their own box to the electrical panel on the bottom right. The panel will be able to provide power to everywhere in the house.

House Project: Part 9

In these photos, you can see that I have advanced in the wiring. Once I completed a circuit with my mentor, I got the hang of "piggybacking" which is completing circuits from box to box. Most people look at this and see just a bunch of wires. Thanks to this experience, I see a living room, dining room, bathroom, and master bedroom all complete with wiring that is up to code.

House Project: Part 8

You can see that I started to measure out the BMX cord for the boxes. In these pictures, I only have two box wires leading out. One my mentor did for me and one I did by myself.

House Project: Part 7

Here you can see that we finished cutting out all of the boxes and started putting in some of the receptacle boxes. 

House Project: Part 6

Here you can see that Mr. Caputo and I built a wood stand for the project. Here we have almost all of the receptacle boxes out, but we still had a few more to drill out at this point.

House Project: Part 5

Here you can see we have cut out all of the boxes. My mentor used a wood saw to cut out each box.

House Project: Part 4

These are some plans Mr. Caputo and I drew before we started wiring the board. He wanted to show me how to wire the house on paper before we started the physical wiring.

House Project: Part 3

In these two photos, you can see a drill my mentor and I used to drill out the receptacle boxes. We drilled out all the markings so we could use a saw and cut out the pieces of wood.

House Project: Part 2

 

Here you can see that we outlined a common house layout. We both had an idea of what was going on the board.

House Project: Part 1

This was the idea of a house we could wire on a smaller scale but everything electrical will be up to code with the New Jersey electrical code. It was just a thought a first but then we found this.

Copper Pipes

Here you can see a piece of copper pipe that my mentor welded together. This torch you see here burns at about 3,000 degrees Celsius.

Installing Outdoor Lights

Here you can see the Genie we set up. We were seeing where we could place this light. The light is a 65 Watt Dusk ti Dawn LED wall pack. The reason we brought out the genie was to see how much wire we needed to run power from the light to the electrical panel.

Brand New Generator

Here you can see the brand new generator at Becton. There is a huge battery attached to back of the generator; the reason it is attached to the back is because it is making the generator run at max capacity. The alternator is running at 483 Vac, its max is suppose to run for 10 hours nonstop without any problems. The test was successful. Becton had a power outage the other day, and the generator was successfully able to provide emergency lights and heat to the building.

Mechanical Map Drawings

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Here you can see the legend of a mechanical map drawing. This page is very important because it the only way to identify what you are seeing on the maps. My mentor told me to read this over to find something called a Volume damper. It controls the amount of air going into a room.

Welcome

Welcome to my blog!

This is my HVAC internship blog. I am interning with Phil Caputo, Buildings and Grounds Supervisor, at Becton. Here I will be posting what I learn.