Title:
Electricity and electronics fundamentals for industrial maintenance
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Publication Information:
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005
ISBN:
9780131175983
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Table of Contents
| 1 Shop Safety and Shop Practices |
| Introduction |
| Safety Glasses, Protective Clothing, and Equipment |
| Safety Mats and Equipment to Prevent Fatigue |
| Safety Light Curtains and Two-Hand Start Buttons |
| Safety Gates and Shields |
| Checking Guards and Active Safety Devices |
| Cleanliness and Shop Housekeeping |
| Leaks |
| Msds |
| First Aid, CPR and Portable Defibrillators |
| Fire Safety |
| Electrical Safety |
| Working Safely with Hand Tools and Power Tools |
| Safety Briefings and Safety Meetings |
| Safety Standards Organizations in the United States, Canada, and Europe |
| 2 Tools for Electrical Technicians |
| Overview of Electrical Tools |
| Electrical Meters |
| Hole Punches and Hole-Cutting Tools |
| Electrical Conduit Bending, Cutting, and Threading Tools |
| Electrical Pliers, Wire Cutters, and Wire Strippers |
| Screwdrivers for Electrical Installation and Maintenance |
| Wrenches for Electrical Maintenance |
| Tool Pouches and Tool Belts |
| Proper Use of Tools |
| 3 Fundamentals of Electricity |
| Overview of Electricity |
| Example of a Simple Electrical Circuit |
| Example of Voltage in a Circuit |
| Example of Current in a Circuit |
| Example of Resistance in a Circuit |
| Identifying the Basic Parts of a Circuit |
| Wiring Diagram and Ladder Diagram |
| Equating Electricity to a Water System |
| Using Ohm's Law to Calculate Volts, Amperes, and Ohms |
| Ohm's Law Formulas |
| Using Ohm's Law to Calculate Voltage |
| Using Ohm's Law to Calculate Current |
| Using Ohm's Law to Calculate Resistance |
| Using the Ohm's Law Wheel to Remember the Ohm's Law Formulas |
| Calculating Electrical Power |
| Presenting All the Formulas |
| Using Prefixes and Exponents with Numbers |
| 4 Voltmeters, Ammeters, and Ohmmeters |
| Measuring Volts, Amps, and Ohms |
| Measuring Voltage |
| Measuring Electrical Current |
| Measuring Milliamps |
| Creating a Multiplier with a Clamp-on-Type Ammeter |
| Measuring Electrical Resistance |
| Reading the Scales of a VOM Meter |
| Measuring DC Volts and Reading the VOM Scales |
| Measuring and Reading the Milliamp Scales on the VOM |
| Measuring and Reading Resistance Scales on the VOM |
| Making Measurements with Digital VOM Meters |
| 5 Series Circuits |
| Introduction |
| Examples of Series Circuits |
| Series Switches |
| Adding Loads in Series |
| Resistor Color Codes |
| Decoding a Resistor |
| Why Resistor Tolerance Is Important |
| Variable Resistors |
| Using Ohm's Law to Calculate Ohms, Volts, and Amps for Resistors in Series |
| Solving for Current in a Series Circuit |
| Calculating the Voltage Drop Across Each Resistor |
| Calculating the Power Consumption of Each Resistor |
| Calculating the Power Consumption of an Electrical Heating Element |
| Troubleshooting Series Switches |
| Review of Series Circuits |
| 6 Parallel and Series-Parallel Circuits |
| Introduction |
| Calculating Voltage, Current, and Resistance in a Parallel Circuit |
| Calculating Resistance in a Parallel Circuit |
| Calculating Power in a Parallel Circuit |
| Reviewing the Principles of Parallel Circuits |
| Review of Using Prefixes with Units of Measure |
| Series-Parallel Circuits |
| Series-Parallel Circuits in Factory Electrical Systems |
| Review of Series-Parallel Circuits |
| 7 Magnetic Theory |
| Introduction to Magnetic Theory |
| A Typical Bar Magnet and Flux Lines |
| Electromagnets |
| Adding Coils of Wire to Increase the Strength of an Electromagnet |
| Using a Core to Increase the Strength of the Magnetic Field of a Coil |
| Reversing the Polarity of a Magnetic Field in an Electromagnet |
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