Industrial Electronics Course

Lesson 1 • Voltage, Current, and Resistance

This defines the three fundamental electrical quantities and their units. It connects these quantities through Ohm's Law for circuit analysis.

Lesson 2 • Atomic Structure and Electron Flow

This covers atomic models, valence electrons, and conductors versus insulators. It provides the physical basis for understanding current flow in industrial systems.

Lesson 3 • Electrical Measurement and Test Equipment

This introduces multimeters, ammeters, and voltmeters used in industrial settings. It develops safe and accurate measurement practices for DC quantities.

Lesson 1 • Power in AC Circuits

This distinguishes real, reactive, and apparent power and introduces power factor. It is directly applicable to industrial energy efficiency and motor load management.

Lesson 2 • Capacitance in AC Circuits

This explains capacitor behavior, capacitive reactance, and current-voltage phase relationships. It connects capacitor theory to filtering and power factor correction applications.

Lesson 3 • AC Waveform Characteristics

This describes sinusoidal waveforms, frequency, period, amplitude, and RMS values. It establishes the vocabulary needed for all subsequent AC circuit analysis.

Lesson 4 • Inductance in AC Circuits

This covers inductor behavior, inductive reactance, and voltage-current phase relationships. It prepares students for transformer and motor circuit analysis.

Lesson 1 • Thyristors and Power Semiconductors

This covers SCRs, TRIACs, and DIACs used in industrial power control applications. It connects device characteristics to phase-control and motor speed circuits.

Lesson 2 • Bipolar Junction Transistors

This covers BJT structure, operating regions, and switching versus amplification modes. It prepares students to analyze transistor-based control and driver circuits.

Lesson 3 • Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors

This covers component identification, ratings, tolerances, and failure modes. It grounds students in passive component selection for industrial circuit design.

Lesson 4 • Semiconductor Diodes

This explains P-N junction theory, forward bias, reverse bias, and diode specifications. It connects diode behavior to rectifier and protection circuit applications.

Lesson 1 • Half-Wave and Full-Wave Rectifiers

This analyzes single-phase rectifier topologies and their output waveforms. It establishes the foundation for understanding regulated industrial DC supplies.

Lesson 2 • Protection Circuits in Power Supplies

This covers overcurrent, overvoltage, and reverse polarity protection methods. It is directly applicable to protecting industrial control panels and sensitive equipment.

Lesson 3 • Filter Circuits and Ripple Reduction

This covers capacitor, inductor, and LC filter designs for smoothing rectified output. It connects filter design to acceptable ripple levels in industrial control circuits.

Lesson 4 • Three-Phase Rectification

This extends rectifier analysis to three-phase systems common in industrial facilities. It covers six-pulse and twelve-pulse configurations and their ripple characteristics.

Lesson 1 • Active Filters for Signal Processing

This covers first- and second-order active low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass filters. These are used to remove noise from sensor signals before analogue-to-digital conversion.

Lesson 2 • Comparators and Schmitt Triggers

This explains open-loop comparator operation and hysteresis in Schmitt trigger circuits. This applies to threshold detection and noise-immune switching in industrial controls.

Lesson 3 • Summing, Difference, and Instrumentation Amplifiers

This covers multi-input amplifier topologies and high-CMRR instrumentation amplifiers. These are essential for processing multiple sensor signals in industrial measurement systems.

Lesson 4 • Op-Amp Characteristics and Ideal Model

This covers open-loop gain, input impedance, output impedance, and bandwidth. It establishes the ideal op-amp model used throughout industrial signal conditioning design.

Lesson 1 • Sequential Logic and Flip-Flops

This introduces SR, D, JK, and T flip-flops and their timing diagrams. It provides the basis for counters, registers, and state machines in industrial controllers.

Lesson 2 • Boolean Algebra and Logic Gates

This covers AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, and XOR gates and Boolean simplification. It enables students to design and reduce logic expressions for industrial control circuits.

Lesson 3 • Combinational Logic Circuit Design

This applies Boolean methods to design encoders, decoders, multiplexers, and adders. This is directly relevant to data routing and arithmetic in industrial digital systems.

Lesson 4 • Number Systems and Digital Codes

This introduces binary, octal, hexadecimal, and BCD number systems and conversions. It provides the numerical foundation for programming and troubleshooting digital industrial systems.

Lesson 1 • PLC Troubleshooting and Maintenance

This applies systematic fault-finding methods to PLC hardware and program faults. It develops the diagnostic skills required for minimising industrial downtime.

Lesson 2 • PLC Hardware and I/O Modules

This covers PLC CPU, power supply, discrete and analogue I/O modules, and wiring practices. It prepares students to select and install PLC hardware for industrial applications.

Lesson 3 • Ladder Logic Programming Fundamentals

This introduces ladder diagram elements including contacts, coils, timers, and counters. It enables students to write and interpret basic PLC programs for industrial machines.

Lesson 4 • Advanced PLC Instructions and Data Handling

This covers comparison, math, move, and data manipulation instructions in ladder logic. It extends programming capability to process control and recipe management applications.

Lesson 1 • Motor Starters and Contactors

This covers direct-on-line, star-delta, and soft-starter methods for motor starting. It connects starting method selection to motor protection and mechanical load requirements.

Lesson 2 • Drive Troubleshooting and Fault Analysis

This applies fault code interpretation and systematic diagnostics to VFD failures. It reduces industrial downtime through structured drive fault analysis and corrective action.

Lesson 3 • Variable Frequency Drive Operation

This explains VFD rectifier, DC bus, and inverter stages and PWM output generation. It prepares students to understand drive operation for AC motor speed control.

Lesson 4 • DC and AC Motor Principles

This reviews DC motor construction, torque-speed curves, and AC induction motor theory. It establishes the motor knowledge required for drive selection and control design.