Design of an electronics laboratory

[joseph]

Hi all,

I have been given the task to design an electronics laboratory.

Do anyone know of any standard/guidelines that should be used when
designing such a lab. I am not referring to Health and Safety rules
etc more on ergonomic standards like size of desks, ideal workspace
area per student etc.

Thanks very much for any help

Joseph

 

[Rich Grise]

I have been given the task to design an electronics laboratory.

Do anyone know of any standard/guidelines that should be used when
designing such a lab. I am not referring to Health and Safety rules
etc more on ergonomic standards like size of desks, ideal workspace
area per student etc.

Thanks very much for any help

Frankly, if you can't figure out something this simple on your own, I
suspect that you have no business trying to teach the stuff.

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Tom Del Rosso]

Frankly, if you can't figure out something this simple on your own, I
suspect that you have no business trying to teach the stuff.

He didn't say he was the professor Rich. Why don't you tell him what the AF
school workbenches were like.

 

[neon]

It not that simple as sugested by someone. to begin with ,figure out the work area for what you are going to . basicaly a yard is good enough for building a simple circuit but then again there may be schematic to be lay out that takes more room. are you going to test your design in a hot and/or cold enviroment? the you will need CO2 lines for the chambers. if you are going to design for the goverment you will need 400 hrz line. a line of power suplies all variable with remote control to regulaed on the bench not at the posts. the power supply should be linear. provide isolation and better ripple. power supply caqn be put 20" above the desk but scopes must be on a cart you might have to get close as 4" to see what you cannot see at 2 feet away.
i spent hours looking at scope boots looking for my troubles. this days you will defenetly need a mat or some kind of protection from ESD i prefer steel bench but wood will work provided that it is ESD protected. this cost a lot of loot but for a garage type of operation this is silly.

 

[Rich Grise]

He didn't say he was the professor Rich. Why don't you tell him what the AF
school workbenches were like.

Each workbench (for basics) had a couple of power supplies, some example
components with binding posts, like inductors, capacitors and resistors;
about half a dozen benches which we'd sometimes share; one scope on a
dolly for the whole room, and that's about it. Oh, just remembered - at
least one bench had 2 "regular" synchros (Selsyn motors) and one
differential synchro. And everybody gets a PSM-6 VOM.


By the time you graduated basics and went on to specialized equipment,
it was just tables and chairs because you're suppposed to already have
learned the basics.

Hope This Helps!
Rich

 

[JosephKK]

Hi all,

I have been given the task to design an electronics laboratory.

Do anyone know of any standard/guidelines that should be used when
designing such a lab. I am not referring to Health and Safety rules
etc more on ergonomic standards like size of desks, ideal workspace
area per student etc.

Thanks very much for any help

Joseph

Basic ergonomics can be found in MIL-STD-1472 and NASA-STD-3000.

Both free for a couple of searches.

I figure about 12 square feet of work surface space and a 15 inch
high 16 inch by 48 inch instrument platform above in the back. Plenty
of power distribution. And storage for leads hand tools etc. plenty
of aisle space so park an instrument cart nearby and still get around.