{"id":121,"date":"2021-03-27T19:15:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T23:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/chapter\/schematic-diagrams-vs-wiring-diagrams\/"},"modified":"2021-04-21T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:48:57","slug":"schematic-diagrams-vs-wiring-diagrams","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/chapter\/schematic-diagrams-vs-wiring-diagrams\/","title":{"raw":"Schematic Diagrams vs Wiring Diagrams","rendered":"Schematic Diagrams vs Wiring Diagrams"},"content":{"raw":"One of the most frequently used diagrams in motor control work is the <strong>schematic diagram<\/strong>. This diagram uses symbols to identify components and interconnecting lines to display the electrical continuity of a circuit.\r\n\r\n<strong>Schematic diagrams<\/strong> show how a circuit works logically and electrically. When troubleshooting or designing control circuits, we use \u201cladder\u201d or \u201cschematic\u201d diagrams to represent how the circuit works but these diagrams do not show how equipment is physically laid out, nor do they represent how things are wired \u201cin the real world.\u201d Two components might be right next to each other on the ladder diagram and 50 metres apart in the real world.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_120\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"624\"]<img class=\"wp-image-119 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/02\/SPST-schematic-circuit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"210\" \/> Schematic diagram of an SPST switch circuit[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Wiring diagrams<\/strong>, also called connection diagrams, however, do show how equipment is laid out and the connections between them. A wiring diagram shows the relative layout of the components and the wire connections between them. This type of diagram shows the physical relation of all devices in the system, the conductor terminations between these devices, and are commonly used in motor control installations.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_120\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"640\"]<img class=\"wp-image-120 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/03\/SPST-wiring-diagram.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/> Wiring diagram of an SPST switch circuit[\/caption]","rendered":"<p>One of the most frequently used diagrams in motor control work is the <strong>schematic diagram<\/strong>. This diagram uses symbols to identify components and interconnecting lines to display the electrical continuity of a circuit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schematic diagrams<\/strong> show how a circuit works logically and electrically. When troubleshooting or designing control circuits, we use \u201cladder\u201d or \u201cschematic\u201d diagrams to represent how the circuit works but these diagrams do not show how equipment is physically laid out, nor do they represent how things are wired \u201cin the real world.\u201d Two components might be right next to each other on the ladder diagram and 50 metres apart in the real world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-119 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/02\/SPST-schematic-circuit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/02\/SPST-schematic-circuit.png 624w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/02\/SPST-schematic-circuit-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/02\/SPST-schematic-circuit-65x22.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/02\/SPST-schematic-circuit-225x76.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/02\/SPST-schematic-circuit-350x118.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schematic diagram of an SPST switch circuit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Wiring diagrams<\/strong>, also called connection diagrams, however, do show how equipment is laid out and the connections between them. A wiring diagram shows the relative layout of the components and the wire connections between them. This type of diagram shows the physical relation of all devices in the system, the conductor terminations between these devices, and are commonly used in motor control installations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-120 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/03\/SPST-wiring-diagram.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/03\/SPST-wiring-diagram.png 640w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/03\/SPST-wiring-diagram-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/03\/SPST-wiring-diagram-65x37.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/03\/SPST-wiring-diagram-225x127.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1349\/2021\/03\/SPST-wiring-diagram-350x197.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wiring diagram of an SPST switch circuit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["alee59"],"pb_section_license":"all-rights-reserved"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[61],"license":[58],"class_list":["post-121","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-alee59","license-all-rights-reserved"],"part":117,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/121\/revisions\/423"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/117"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/121\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/lightingforelectricians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}