Basics of Control Components Course
Free Course on Electrical Theory
The course is a FREE self-study Electrical Engineering course designed to increase your automation and control knowledge at your own pace.
These courses are a fantastic study guide for students and also serve as a useful refresher course for engineers who are a long time out of college.
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Introduction
This course covers
Basics of Control Components and related products.
Upon completion of Basics
of Control Components you will be able to:
• State the purpose and
general principles of control components and circuits
• State the difference
between manual and automatic control operation
• Identify various
symbols which represent control components
• Read a basic line
diagram
• Describe the
construction and operating principles of manual starters
• Describe the
construction and operating principles of magnetic contactors and
magnetic motor starters
• Identify various
Siemens and Furnas manual starters and magnetic motor
starters, and describe their operation in a control circuit
• Explain the need for
motor overload protection
• State the need for
reduced-voltage motor starting
• Describe typical
motor starting methods normally pilot devices
• Describe the
operating principles of control relays
The course contents are listed below
- Control Circuits
- Electrical Symbols
- Line Diagrams
- Overload Protection
- Overload Relays
- Manual Control
- Magnetic Contactors and Starters
- Starter Ratings
- Furnas INNOVA PLUS Starters
- ESP100 Starters
- SIRIUS Type 3R Starters
- World Series Type 3TF Starters
- Multi-Speed and Reversing Starters
- Reduced-Voltage Starting
- Solid-State Reduced-Voltage Controllers
- Pilot Devices
- Control Transformers
- Control Relays
- Timing Relays
- Pressure Switches
- LOGO! Logic Module
This course has been developed
by Siemens and can be downloaded from
the below link.
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