Electricity & Electronic Systems

SAFETY
 When are Safety Glasses required?
All students and visitors MUST wear safety glasses at
any time there is any active lab activities

This includes the classroom and the larger lab area

Loaner glasses are available for visitors

Students must supply their own glasses

 How do I get Safety Glasses?
Glasses can cost as little as $1.00 a pair

Instructor can sell you glasses

Tool trucks that visit school have very

comfortable glasses

Any auto parts store will stock a variety of

glasses
 Contact lenses do not belong in
the shop
Many solvents, chemicals, fuels and particles
can be trapped next to, and damage, the eye

Damage compounded by wearing contacts.

Do not wear contacts in the shop environment

How do I see without contacts?
Wear safety glasses over prescription
glasses

Obtain side shields to use with prescription

glasses (available in Welding dept.)

Prescription safety glasses with side shields

are a good investment
Basic Electrical Theory
What can you learn from this lesson?
If you understand how an electrical circuit
is supposed to work

And

You can use a Voltmeter

You can fix electrical stuff

 Define Electricity
The ability to perform “work” by moving
electrons between atoms
 What do we need to make an
electrical circuit “Work”

Break into groups and write a list of

the basic requirements to control and
use electricity

Think of what has to happen to turn on

a light.
 What do we need to make an
electrical circuit “Work”
Power Source
Wiring or Conductors
(insulated side and ground)
Control Device (switch)

Load
Circuit Protection (fuse)
 Power Source

Alternator provides power for running vehicle

(Alternator provides power for running vehicle)

 Load

Alternator provides power for running vehicle

Light bulb, motor, solenoid, etc.

 Control Device

Alternator provides power for running vehicle

Switch, Relay, Computer

 Wiring or Conductors

Alternator provides power for running vehicle

Insulated and Ground

 Circuit Protection

Alternator provides power for running vehicle

Fuse or Circuit Breaker

Alternator provides power for running vehicle
Alternator provides power for running vehicle
Electrical “work” can be in the form of heat energy

Alternator provides power for running vehicle

The light gets hot and gives off light

Alternator provides power for running vehicle

Electrical
work can
be
magnetism
Magnetism
pulls in the
solenoid
and makes
the starter
turn
 Start on Lab #2
Power Source

Wiring or Conductors
(insulated side and ground)

Control Device (switch)

Load

Circuit Protection (fuse)

Diagrams show the Power Source
at the top, ground at the bottom
Diagrams show the Power Source
at the Left, ground on the Right
 Wiring Diagrams
• Wiring diagrams illustrate how a circuit is
supposed to work

• If you know how it should work, it is easier

to figure out why it doesn’t work
 What can cause an electrical
circuit to fail?
• A bad or defective:
Power Source

Wiring or Conductors
(insulated side and ground)

Control Device (switch)

Load

Circuit Protection (fuse or circuit breaker)