IE 130 - Industrial Electronics

Credit Hours: 3

Oscillator and timer circuits; SCRs, TRIACs, opto-isolators and power control circuits; linear and switching regulators; inverters, converters, pulse-width modulators, solid-state motor control circuits and variable-speed drives. Activities include component and circuit identification, description of behavior and troubleshooting methods. Experiments include: op-amp oscillators, 555 timers, SCR characteristics and SCR power control, TRIAC characteristics and power control, opto-isolators, linear regulators, switching regulators, power inverters, pulse-width modulated power control, solid-state motor control circuits and variable- speed drives.
Prerequisites: IE 100.