POWER ELECTRONICS

The Power Electronics laboratory package consists of 5 Lab cards
IK1 – IK 5, which slot into the Base Unit 2000. The HK1 help function card, available as an accessory, serves as additional power supply and function generator.

This laboratory package develops the student´s ability to analyse
electronic apparatus as a whole and determine its function. It also
provides knowledge and experience of measuring techniques for
locating and rectifying faults in industrial or power production electronic systems.

The Power Electronics courseware consists of a Text book, Experiment book, Teacher´s book and Exercise book.

Topics Covered
The topics covered make use of Lab cards IK1 – IK5 where specified in brackets:

Rectification (IK1)

Smoothing (IK1)

Voltage Stabilising (IK1)

The Thyristor (IK1)

Triac and Diac (IK1)

The Transistor (IK2)

The Filter (IK2)

The Opto Switch (IK4)

Operation Amplifier (IK3)

Static Current (converter IK4)

AD/DA Transducers (IK5)

Measuring of Semi-conductors with a Digital Multimeter

Measuring Components with an Oscilloscope

Trouble shooting

After the course the student should be able to:

Locate and write down PCB faults in an electronic system.

Measure voltage and signals to and from circuit boards as applied in industrial or power electronic systems.

Interpret and use connection diagrams as they occur in electronic systems for industry and power productions.

Explain the principles of rectification, filtering and stabilization and perform simple trouble shooting in a power supply.

Describe operation amplifiers and thyristor functions and their use in different industrial applications.