| Date | Topic | Reading | Handouts | Assignments |
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| Aug 25 | Welcome Course Policies | |||
| Aug 27 | Intro to Industrial Control | Class Notes (Intro To Control) F-22 Raptor Crash | ||
| Sep 1 | Switches, Relays, Motor Starters Prox Switches (no lab today) |
Switches 101 Honeywell Basic, Toggle, and Rocker Switches ABB Limit Switchs Banner (Prox and Photo) |
Class Notes (Switches and Relays) Class Notes (Switches and Relays - with animation intact) Class Notes (Prox Switch - with animation intact) Class Notes (Prox Switch Applications) |
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| Sep 3 | Transistors, Relay Drivers, Back EMF, Opto-Isolators, FETs, H-Bridge, PWM, IGBT's |
Transistor as a Switch Opto-isolators MOSFET as a Switch H-Bridge intro H-bridge in depth H-Bridge Schematic Pulse Width Modulation Discrete IGBTs (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors) IGBT's IGBT or MOSFET: Choose Wisely Snubber Diode Video |
Class Notes Class Notes |
Lab #1 - Relay Ladder Logic (Start/Stop Motor Starter). Due end of lab. |
| Sep 8 | Diodes, SCR's, Diacs and Triacs Start of Op Amps | Diode Review Rectifier Review SCR's Diacs and Triacs SCR vs TRIAC's | Class Notes | |
| Sep 10 | Op Amps (Cont) Start of A2D / D2A |
Op Amps Reference Instrumentation Amps PID Control Circuit |
Class Notes Class Notes Successive Aprox Spreadsheet |
Lab #2 - Relay Driver. |
| Sep 15 | A2D / D2A | Class Notes Successive Aprox Spreadsheet | ||
| Sep 17 | A2D Calculations | Class Notes Class Notes Note: these notes are similar to what we did in class, but not the same problems | HW #1 - Due start of class Sep 24 Lab #3 - Lab and Excel Spreadsheet due at end of of next week's lab (two week lab). If instructor is not available, record your demo, put on youtube and put active link in spread sheet before submitting. Demo should show the full range of the ADC (start at zero and go to 255 by turning potentiometer from one stop to the other). Leave paper copy of lab under instructor's office door (ET218). | |
| Sep 22 | Temperature Measurement | Chp 21 | Class Notes | |
| Sep 24 | Pressure Measurement Level Measurment Test #1 (Take Home) (up to and including SCR's Diacs and Triacs and Labs 1 and 2.) | Chp 19 Chp 20 | Class Notes Class Notes | Test #1 - The test is open notes, open book, open references. Suggest printing it out, working the problems then coming back to the page, fill in the answers on line and submitting. The Login is your last name (first letter of your last name is capitalized), and the password provided via email for Gradewatch. Test opends at start of class and is due by start of class on Thursday Oct 1, 2026. |