As you’ve seen, we occasionally use a test as a learning tool itself, and not just testing exactly what we’ve already taught explicitly. This type of experience stretches a student and helps things to click more firmly after the struggle to figure it out.
As you go along, you’ll expand your schematic diagram “vocabulary” – in other words, recognizing what symbols and phrases mean.
Sometimes you just have to pore over the schematic, reading notes. For example…
Underneath the schematic they say, “Note – Bk(J) denotes black jumper wire on each radiant element between terminals 4 and S.”
So, that tells you what BK(J) is, and then you might notice that they indicate wire colors. For example, the LF burner that we focused on in this exercise has a Yellow wire to the left of the light. Up near H1 where the 3 jumpers come up, the 3rd notation says “Y+BK” which indicates where the LF light is tied in.
That H1 circuit is just shown once, but there would be 3 of those for the three single elements.
Then, the RF Blue wire comes in at the other Jumper, that is part of a dual-element burner. (You’ll see that over on the wiring diagram, too.)
Does that all make sense?
This is a diagram that takes some noodling over. We get asked about it a lot. But, it’s a great teaching tool!
Once you’ve completed the courses, you can continue getting exposure to schematics by watching our webinar recordings over at Appliantology!
