Home Appliances

Home appliances also called domestic appliances, electric appliances, or household appliances are machines, instruments, or electrical devices, which assist in household functions like cleaning, washing, cooking, food preservation, heating, and many more. They were designed to easier daily home workload. Home appliances are convenient for using, offer effective help, and provide labor-saving and time-saving capabilities.

Home appliances of different kinds have broad usage in homes, offices, and many other premises. Each appliance has a particular use and function. Home appliances include kitchen equipment, cleaning equipment, laundry equipment, heating and cooling equipment, entertainment equipment, garden equipment, etc. They include refrigerators, ovens, washing machines, dishwashers, stoves, kettles, grinders, toasters, coffee machines, irons, vacuums, air conditioners, and many more. For outside use are applied lawnmowers, hedge trimmers, weed cutters, snow blowers, pool vacuums, paint sprayers, etc.

In common, appliances are divided into:

• small appliances, which are easily carried and installed; generally these include kitchen devices - kettles, toasters, electric mixers, meat grinders, coffee grinders, coffeemakers, juicers, deep fryers, food processors, blenders, waffle irons, multicookers, also food-waste disposals, vacuum cleaners, irons, hairdryers, fans, etc;
• major appliances or white goods include refrigerators, freezers, kitchen stoves, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, freezers, ranges, electrical cookers, water heaters, air conditioners, humidifiers, dehumidifiers, air purifiers, ovens, microwave ovens, etc;
• consumer electronics or brown goods are intended for everyday use for communications, entertainment, and recreation. Usually, they are used in residential homes and often they are connected to the Internet. They include home electronics, TV sets, radio receivers, CD and DVD players, cameras, camcorders, clocks, alarm clocks, computers, game consoles, telephones, and many more.

Example 1. Home Appliances in Home Designs

Electrical appliances use the AC from the outlets and are connected in a parallel arrangement in a house circuit because each of them requires a full voltage. A single electric power source supplies all appliances and lights within a home with the same voltage. However, it is recommended to use several separate circuits in a home or apartment to arrange the load. At the same time, all appliances are independent, we can use only what we need at the moment and if one of the appliances is unplugged or broken, it does not affect the working of the other ones. When one light burns out or some appliance is broken, current still flows through the other lights and appliances in a given building or premise. The only incident that can fall down the entire system is a short circuit when the voltage drops to almost zero.

Sometimes the appliances are interconnected and controlled by a unified home automation system, which turns a home into an intelligent home or smart home. The home automation system controls and manages all appliances, lighting, air conditioning, heating, and other systems within a home using computers and other specialized technical devices, solid-state circuitries, microchips, voice synthesis technologies, etc. The appliances are managed from mobile applications remotely via the Internet or directly by voice commands, they are interconnected and communicate with each other.

Home Automation and Wiring solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software is effective and convenient to develop modern solutions for home automation and create plans of home appliances arrangement. Design several plans and then choose the best one to be realized at your home, apartment, or office to correctly calculate the loads, form the electrical circuits, and avoid waste of time and undesirable arrangements at the place.

Example 2. Home Appliances Library Design Elements

Home Automation and Wiring solution contains 9 libraries with vector design elements including design elements — home appliances in the Home Appliances library. The ready-made elements are useful for designing professional-looking diagrams in minutes. Also, pay attention to the included predesigned samples, which you can use as examples and templates for your own diagrams.

Example 3. Basic Light Switch Wiring Diagram

The Wiring Diagrams samples you see on this page were created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software using the drawing tools of the Home Automation and Wiring Solution. These examples successfully demonstrate the solution's capabilities and the professional results you can achieve using it. An experienced user spent 5-15 minutes creating each of these samples.

Use the drawing tools of the Home Automation and Wiring solution to design your own Home automation diagrams and infographics quick, easy, and effective.

All source documents are vector graphic documents. They are available for reviewing, modifying, or converting to a variety of formats (PDF file, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and many other graphic formats) from the ConceptDraw STORE. The Home Automation and Wiring Solution is available for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM users.