EXPERIMENT NO 7

Aim: Electrical Slw To develop prepareboard.

Introduction : You must have seen electrical sockets. Fixed on the

walls of your home. Wish to use an electrical appliance If you Such
as a table lamp or an iron at some distance from the wall you need
an extension board. Similarly in a an laboratory. You may n be
required to use an extension board particularly when many students
are working on a table or when many electrical instruments ave to
be used. An extension board provides for more than one electrical
socket. When this plug is inserted in socket on a wall of the
laboratory. electricity becomes available at the sockets of the
extension board and that is why an extension board is such as
usefull laboratory tool. The main purpose of this experiment is to
enable you to learn how to fabricate an electrical extension board.
Moreover ps you do this experiment, you will also learn to identify
the like, neutral and earth wires to and earth wires and
corresponding terminals of electrical socket and Corresponding
terminals of electrical sockets and plugse to After doing this
experiment you should be able identify the live, neutral and earth
terminals of . a socket and corresponding wires in va three core
electrical wire.Select appropriate wires, plugs, switches and socket
for fabricating on extension board and fabricate on extension
board.

Apparatus:

Wooden box good quality 5m, good quality 5mm three core
electric wire of 20 guage, 2 two-in-one (5A and 15A) sockets,
Ithree-pin plug (15A), 2 Switches (15A), Half meter single core
electric wire of guage 22

Assembling an extension board-

The basic activities involved in assembling the extension board are

to wire, Switches, Sockets and plugs in accordance with a circuit
diagram. Therefore let us first know about these components and
the proper method of connecting them in a circuit..
Electrical wires-

Electrical wires are made of copper because copper is a good

conductor of electricity and relatively inexpensive. In recent years,
there is an increasing trend towards the use of aluminium.

As you know from your school physics course, the arrent corrying
capacity of wire depends upon lits area of cross section and
whence on it’s dameter. The thickness of wire is expected in terms
of guage.The live wire has red insulation the reutral wire has black
inculation and the earth wire has given. Insulation.

Generally, for equipment used in a typcal laboratory, it is safe to

15A coment would fbw to assure that not more than through the
cable at any instant of time. Therefore you should take copper wire
quage board. Of 26 guage for making an extension

Socket and plug

Now refer to fig which show a 15 A through pin socket and a ISA
three pin plug- respectively. Now a days societs are available in
which bath 5A cand 15 A Joads can be plugged in one at a time.
Such Sockets are called two-in-one. Sockets. Both the three pin
Socket and the three-pin have 3 terminals, namely live, reutral and
earth.

Switch

The electric switch has only two terminal, It is always connected

along the live wire in circuit. A

For connecting the three-core wire in a plug or a Switch ore a

societ you will be required to strip its outer insulation for about.
3cm length. Then, the insulation of the three inner wires should be
stripped as per per the requirement of the socket. You should wrap
each wire clockwire around

The terminals of the socket so that the screws tighten in the same
direction.

Circuit diagram:-

For drawing circuit diagram for an extension board the following

question thave to be considered

• How many electrical appliances / equipment are to be

plugged in the extension brand.

• What are the power rating of these appliances/ equipments

Procedure:

1. Take out the top of the wooden box for udriving holes in it to fix
the Sockets and switches with a pencil mark the point shown in
fig.
For holes use a hand drill holes of appropriate size of ithese point
fix the Sockets and switches in their appropriate position on the top
box with screws.

2. Keep the labelled circuit diagram not that all the terminals of
sockets and switches Eng vare numbered. Use the single. Are wire
of inGuage 22.

a) Connect points 2 and 3

b) Connect points l and 5

c) Connect points 6 and 7

d) Connect point 4 and 8

e) Connect point 9 and 10

3. Remove the outer insulation at both ends of the 5 cm long three-

core-wire.

4. Connect the live wire to point!

5.Connect the neutral wire point

t 6.Connect the earth with point

9.

7. Connect the other end of the three core wire with a three pin 15
A plug connecting earth, dive and neutral wire at the appropriate
terminals.

8. Fix the top on the box with the help of screws.

PRE LAB QUESTIONS:
1. For what purpose power extension board used?
2. What should be avoided when using power extensin board?
POST LAB QUESTIONS:
1.Write benefitsof power extension
board. 2.What are live, neutral and
earth wires?