Course Electrical engineering 1: DC technology

Includes:

• 1 Experiment card with various resistor circuits, capacitor and coil
• 1 Experiment card with voltage divider circuits
• 1 Experiment card with circuits for studying temperature, light and voltage-dependent resistors
• Storage case
• Labsoft and course software

Course contents:

• Familiarisation with the term electricity
• Examples of the use of electricity
• Introduction to the Bohr model of the atom
• Electric charge and electric fields
• Differences between conductors, insulators and semiconductors
• Familiarisation with the terms current, voltage and resistance
• Investigation of a simple electrical circuit with a lamp
• Different types of DC sources
• Measurement using voltmeters and ammeters
• Colour coding and design of resistors
• Experimental verification of Ohm's law
• Experimental verification of Kirchhoff's laws
• Measurements on resistances in series and parallel
• Investigation of circuits with resistors in mixed series and parallel connection
• Measurements on voltage divider circuits with fixed/variable resistors
• Measurements on bridge circuits
• Power measurements in DC circuits
• Investigation of the in-circuit response of variable resistors (LDRs (photocells), NTC and PTC thermistors, VDRs)
• Measurement and interpretation of variable resistor characteristics (LDR, NTC, PTC, VDR)
• Measurements on coils and capacitors in a DC circuit
• Fault simulation (9 simulated faults activated by relay)
• Course duration 8 h approx. (fault finding 1.5 h approx.)