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INTRODUCTION
Comment: Before The Architect designs an Electrical Plan along with a Lighting plan for each level of each custom home the firm works. The Electrical Plan is detailed and complex for a residential design and construction plan and the Lighting Plan control has no equal – not even close – it's one-of-a-kind. Most Electrical & Lighting Plans for a home are just Electrical Plans – no Lighting, except for the occasional genuflection to a sconce – and, even thusly limited, are, in this custom home designer's opinion, the minimum to let an electrician get ‘er done his way, while short on safety, durability, and convenience.
ELECTRICAL & LIGHTING PLAN
Electrical & Lighting Plan, Scaled
KEY:
A = (NIGHT)LIGHTING SCHEDULE. In this regard and to follow, please see hereunder "Home Lighting Design For Aging Eyes. Part 1: the Basics" at http://searchwarp.com/swa124510.htm and "... Part 2: the Math" at http://searchwarp.com/swa124664.htm and "Designer House Plan Schedules - Extensive, Unique Checklist, 19." at http://searchwarp.com/swa142602.htm
B = ELECTRICAL & LIGHTING PLAN LAYOUT
C = BATHROOM EXHAUST FAN SCHEDULE. In this regard and to follow, please see hereunder "Designer House Plan Schedules - Extensive, Unique Checklist, 6." at http://searchwarp.com/swa142602.htm
D = CEILING FAN SCHEDULE. In this regard, please see "Designer House Plan Schedules - Extensive, Unique Checklist, 7." at http://searchwarp.com/swa142602.htm
E = MANUFACTURER-SUPPLIED DETAIL OF EXTERIOR SCONCES
F = MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
G = GUIDANCE TO CONTRACTORS AND OTHERS REGARDING THE AUTHORITY OF THIS PLAN SHEET AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITY THERETO IN ITS RESPECT. In this regard, please see hereunder Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover? How About A Custom Home Plan Cover Story? . . . What's expected of home building and supply contractors? at http://searchwarp.com/swa308356.htm
H = CONSTRUCTION NOTES IN APPLICATION
I = LEGEND
J = KEY
K = DAYLIGHTING ANALYSIS. In this regard, please see hereunder "Home Lighting Design - Interior Daylighting" at http://searchwarp.com/swa124855.htm
Comment: Before The Architect uniquely extends an Electrical Plan to include:
- Lighting. In this regard, please see hereunder "Interior Lighting For Aging Eyes" (noted above) and Light Flutter. In this latter regard and to follow, please see hereunder "Home Lighting Design, Avoiding Light Flutter: How Ceiling Fans and Ceiling Lights Can Get Along Together" at http://searchwarp.com/swa123990.htm
- Ceiling Fan blade diameter and hang-height
- Bathroom exhaust fan number and capacity
- Distribution of devices, circuitry, cabling, overcurrent protection, etc. to broader, stricter standards than commonly applied to residential electrical and lighting design materials and methods
Switches and Receptacles By A Bed
Comment: The home designer is herewith encouraged to consult with clients on their own preferences and intentions as to site and type of bed(s) in any given sleeping area.
Comment: For home designer reference, common bed widths follow –
Bed type Width
Single 30 linear inches
Twin 39 linear inches
Standard
Double/Full 54 linear inches
Queen 60 linear inches
King 72 linear inches
California/
Western King 78 linear inches
Electrical & Lighting Plan Example, Up Close On The Layout
Electrical & Lighting Plan Layout, Excerpted, Plan View, Scaled
KEY:
Please note that most of the text below is identified by cross-reference to both notes and keys and legends and schedules on the Electrical & Lighting plan sheet. Additionally, as needed, there may be extensive, sometimes extra-extensive, text guidelining electrical and lighting standards of materials and methods. (For example, in the custom home plan set from which this article's images are drawn, Electrical & Lighting Standards' text ran to 3,092 words tightly written in outline format.)
A = wall switch, 3-way with dimmer, set at default height of 40 linear inches above finish floor level, noting circuit line-drawn to other 3-way switch. In regard to wall switches, please see hereunder "Home Electrical Design, Electrical Devices - Home Switch" at http://searchwarp.com/swa216892.htm
B = duplex receptacle default amps/volts of 20a/120v specifically identified to set 42 linear inches over finish floor. note that insufficient space on the drawing to site this device exactly is addressed by offsetting its symbolization with a line drawn to the intended site of application. also note that each lavatory gets its own duplex receptacle and each receptacle is on a home run, or hr, meaning a circuit is solely dedicated thereat. In this regard, please see hereunder "Home Electrical Design, Electrical Devices - House Receptacle" at http://searchwarp.com/swa216899.htm
C = the lavatories' 760 lumens as "t" for task lighting, established in the nightlighting schedule. Please note that the lighting design standard hereunder for task lighting is lies in quality of illuminance. for task, consider breaking the color correlated color temperature, or CCT, prescription to the slightly higher side of 3000k and the color rendering index, or CRI, to the lower side of 90, even of 80, for work areas. ambient lighting - branches not label with a "t" - should vary the other side of those prescripts.
D = wall-mounted sconces spaced 2'-6" either side of the vanity centerline and, thereby, centering each lavatory between a pair, set 65 linear inches above finish floor, on the 3-way switch branch in a above and the lumens of which are included in c above.
E = bath exhaust fan identified on a 3 way, non-dimmer switch branch and centered on a line from vanity corner to bath corner and from bog/tub diagonal corner-to-corner, further identified in bath exhaust fan schedule b for capacity and suggested make and model for consideration or for similar.
F & G = radon riser pipe 5 and sanitary DWV a, identified in the electrical & lighting plan to alert electrical installers to be extra careful thereabouts in piercing wall planes.
H = smoke alarms, notably, shall be applied according to manufacturer instruction in each sleeping room, outside each sleeping room passage door; shall be permanently connected to each other overall such that when one or more alarm, all alarm throughout the entire house; shall run on both permanent 120v and replaceable battery; each shall feature a combination of ionization and photoelectric sensors; shall not disconnect by wall switch; shall have as its overcurrent protection, or circuit breaker, a device specifically identified as capable to have two circuits landed where the other circuit landed shall be to a frequently used lighting application and where the alarm branch load shall be before any switch. note well that there are three pairs showing on this excerpt, two pair each flanking beds and the shared bath, and one pair between lower bed and guest hall. (Additionally, not shown is another pair between upper bed and guest hall.)
I = ceiling fan identified as 52 linear inches in diameter and further identified in ceiling fan schedule c on the same sheet as to capacity and mounting distance from finish ceiling height, separately switched for fan and light pack whether or not the latter is initially applied, set on a centerline diagonally corner-to-corner. note well that the ceiling fan is on its own circuit in order to minimize harmonic distortion thereabouts.
J = the ceiling area identified by hatch pattern and dimensions from finish wall in which downlights may be set without interference from ceiling fan blade illumination interruption, or light flutter.
K = pressure switch to bed 2 closet out of view.
L = spacing for duplex receptacles either side of queen-sized bed, ground fault interrupter-protected by force of their proximity to operable windows, set at a 16 linear inch default over finish floor.
M & N = vaporproof luminaire over tub on centerline on tub's diagonal corners on single-pole, non-dimmer switch, to be included in the 2730 tasked lumens for the bog/tub area.
O = the centerlining to site the ceiling exhaust fan referenced in e above.
P = duplex receptacle at default height and each dedicated, the purpose for which is to operate electronic equipment each grouping isolated to its own circuit.
Q = duplex receptacles sited at default height above finish floor and either side of passage door at not greater than 6 linear feet from door's jamb legs, including closed closet doors as wall surrogate. note, too, that the receptacle in bed 2 to left of bed 2-bath passage is mighty close to being set behind the single-swing door between bed 2 and guest hall. depending on the specific competence and overall understanding of local building authorities having jurisdiction, such site, that is, of a receptacle behind an open door, may be (and should be, in this designer's opinion,) be waived as patently unsafe.
R = lighted switches to control lighting along paths from (any) bedroom to nearest bath and (nearest) kitchen - standard safety ops for BTA Electrical & Lighting Plan layout.
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