Week 2: Never Ending Wires
This week I started in-person work at Bent River Machine. I spent most of my time running wires for a controller for one of their projects with a solar cell laminator for Amazon. It was surprisingly really fun to figure out where they all go from just the schematics, although I did encounter some tedium.
There were a couple of times where I had to reroute groups of wires, or accidentally cut some. The biggest struggle was trying to label them. For some reason, I just kept making typos and mislabelling wires. After I finally thought I had labeled everything correctly, I looked at my reference and realized both sides of the wires had to be labeled, and I was back to square one. I really enjoyed the more independent work, as I felt very accomplished every time I worked something out on my own.
Everybody at Bent River Machine seems very knowledgeable in their field, and they’re all willing to help me with anything I need, which is relieving because at first, I was worried that I would be a burden to their team, though it is scary to ask them for help when they are so hard at work on their own projects. I was originally very intimidated by the schematics and the large board with a mess of wires attached, but I’m now pretty confident in being able to wire the next couple, hopefully much faster than the ones I have so far. They also gave me a small project to try to work out. somehow, two conveyors have mounting points that don’t line up as they should, and I will try to design a bracket to mount them.
Overall, I am even more excited for what the rest of my project holds, but more than anything I am amazed and impressed with Bent River’s process in pulling a large project together so efficiently, and everybody’s input to move things along.
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