Item No.: CO4204-4D

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.)