Construction drawings
Construction drawings
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Hi All,
I want to understand the role of an electrical engineer, when it comes to drawing details. I am an engineer in training in a consulting firm. Now...coz I dont have the relevent supervion or guidance from available from my superior, so we send most of the work to other places. I recently got some drawings back for poles mounted disconnect switches and a few meters of dist. line rated 69 KV.
All the EE I know, since my span in this career of 2 years, I wonder if any one of them can go to these details as we are not taught this in engineering insitutes. Here is a typical drawing:
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This drawings is done by a C.E.T( Certified Electrical technologist). So, am I supposed to learn these things as well as a would be Professional Engineer? It comprises of details like in BOM: Washer type. Cold shrink or Hot shrink cat. no...
Damn these details are too much and time consuming. So, is it left to the diploma holders CET to do work or at times engineers might have to do it as well.
Please advise.
Thanks
I want to understand the role of an electrical engineer, when it comes to drawing details. I am an engineer in training in a consulting firm. Now...coz I dont have the relevent supervion or guidance from available from my superior, so we send most of the work to other places. I recently got some drawings back for poles mounted disconnect switches and a few meters of dist. line rated 69 KV.
All the EE I know, since my span in this career of 2 years, I wonder if any one of them can go to these details as we are not taught this in engineering insitutes. Here is a typical drawing:
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This drawings is done by a C.E.T( Certified Electrical technologist). So, am I supposed to learn these things as well as a would be Professional Engineer? It comprises of details like in BOM: Washer type. Cold shrink or Hot shrink cat. no...
Damn these details are too much and time consuming. So, is it left to the diploma holders CET to do work or at times engineers might have to do it as well.
Please advise.
Thanks






RE: Construction drawings
RE: Construction drawings
I've been a PE for 35 years or so, and I still have to deal with such details at times. Maybe not create them myself, but I know enough to know if an engineer or C.E.T. working under me knows what they're doing.
At a minimum, you need to learn the difference between a 69 kV subtransmission or transmission line and the 13.2 kV distribution line in the drawing. And the difference between a disconnect switch and an underground riser with open cutouts.
RE: Construction drawings
RE: Construction drawings
RE: Construction drawings
If you want to make a sport comparision, you can't be a successful quarterback if you only know a few page of the playbook. Same thing apply to engineering.
RE: Construction drawings
The same one exist at different utilities, they vary slightly.
Here are some.
http://www.usda.gov/rus/electric/bulletins.htm
Got to 1728F-804 and you can get a pile of them. Several utilities publish them on the web.
Standards exist so mundane work can be push to the routine. No need to pay an engineer to reinvent the wheel over and over. Save your efforts for the problems worthy of your talent.
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apowerengr : Thanks for your comments as well. I am not scared from details, coz I am new kid in this block with engineering profession, I just thought I should find out,if I am supposed to know these things or it is the job of people who are technologists. That was all.
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BJC, You mentioned some utilities have some free information avaialble, I would certainly be interested in that as well.
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It requires constructive googling. Here's a hit I got fairly quickly.
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Item 1724-300 in the link I gave above is an 800 page substation manual.
RE: Construction drawings