Project Description:

 A customer has come to your Engineering Firm and has asked you to design, build and test a circuit card that controls an AC device (e.g. a light bulb). This circuit card will be installed in all the new street lamps in the City of Light.

The circuit will contain the following:

1. Secondary connections from an AC source
2. Filtered dc power supply
3. Light control and switching circuitry
4. Lamp connections

 Specifications

1.  The light must turn on when it is dark out.
2. It must turn off when it is light out.

Testing

You must demonstrate your product to the customer and verify that it meets all of the above specifications.

 Documentation

 You must provide a complete product report to the customer. (You can keep your product. The customer will decide which engineering firm should receive the contract.)

Last Modified: 4/16/98 by korman@seas.gwu.edu.