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Electrical Assignment

The document outlines an assignment for a pre-apprenticeship skills module focused on creating a desk lamp using electronic components. It details the components used, their roles, and how the circuit functions, including the importance of resistors to prevent LED damage. The student also describes a troubleshooting experience where a soldering issue was resolved to ensure all LED rows lit up properly.

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Electrical Assignment

The document outlines an assignment for a pre-apprenticeship skills module focused on creating a desk lamp using electronic components. It details the components used, their roles, and how the circuit functions, including the importance of resistors to prevent LED damage. The student also describes a troubleshooting experience where a soldering issue was resolved to ensure all LED rows lit up properly.

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O’Fiaich Institute

7PAS Pre-Apprenticeship Skills

Electronics Module

Assignment No.1
Skills Demonstration – Desk Lamp

Tutor: Conor Kerrigan

Student: Darren M. Tharp

Deadline: -/-/2024
Round 5V LED Desk Lamp

Component Name Quantity Symbol Use/Role


Printed Circuit 1 None Holds and connects all
Board (PCB) components on the tracks with
solder
LED 9 Emits light once the power
supply is connected
Resistor – 3 Limits the flow of the electric
R1, R2, R3 current so that the LED’s do not
blow out
Link – 2 Enables the power supply to
LK1, LK2 connect to all the LED’s
Power Supply 1 Provides the flow of current from
preferred 5V power supply to the
LED’s

How the Circuit Works


The resistors (R1, R2, and R3) are soldered onto the PCB in their respective
places. The remaining lengths of wire from the resistors’ legs are cut off to be used
as the supply links for the rows of LED’s. Once these are soldered into the places
for LK1 and LK2, the LED’s are added to the PCB. It is important to place the LED
components so that the “missing” corner in the upper (negative) left-hand side is in
alignment with the corresponding shaded corner of each LED designation. This
done, the power supply is connected the pad on the PCB, ensuring that the red
wire is in the positive (+) designation and the black wire in the negative (-).
The way the light works is this: the power supply gives the flow of current to the
tracks on the PCB. As the current flows to the first row of LED’s, LK1 connects the
flow to the second row, and LK2 connects the flow from the second row to the third.
The resistors provide 33 Ohms of resistance before each “branch” of 3 LED’s. In
this way, only 20mA goes to each LED (60mA to each branch), preventing the LED’s
from being damaged by too much current.
One problem I ran into with this was that after I first powered on the batteries,
only the first and second rows of 3 LED’s were lighting up. The solution was to
resolder my LK2, as there was where the solder was touching another component.
After the solder was reapplied and the power was applied, all 3 rows lit up.
Line Diagram
Finished Project and Light Test

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