SUNY CANTON COLLEGE
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

ELEC141 Industrial Controls
hartle@canton.edu

Reading Assignment

Resource Reading Assignment

Relays:      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay
Contactors:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactor
Symbols:   http://www.canton.edu/employee/hartle/elec141/INDESYM.pdf

Classroom objectives:

• Review syllabus, grading standard, and Information for Student Success
• Electrical Shock: Electrical Shock.pdf
• Safety in the workplace:  ElectricalSafety_petruzella.pdf  source: "Electric Motors and Control Systems", Petruzella, McGraw Hill, 2010.
• Safety in the lab:  lab safety and operations procedures.pdf
• SAFETY GLASSES:  REQUIRED TO WEAR IN LAB!  Purchase a pair and bring them to every lab.
• LOG BOOK:  Student Log Sheet.pdf  You will be required to maintain one log sheet for yourself, and another for the instructor.
• Location of equipment in the lab.  Wires, meters, push-button stations, and relays.
• Introduction to push-buttons and control stations
• Momentary Contacts
• Maintained Contacts
• Normally open (NO) and normally closed (NC) contacts
• Relays and contractors
• Documentation: Wiring Diagrams, schematic diagrams, ladder diagrams, and wire lists
• Solid State Relays
• Latch - Unlatch Relays

Laboratory excercises:

• Control circuit with latching.  Introduction to the basic control circuit.
• Pages 5 - 9, Laboratory and Supplemental Information Manual, ELEC 141
• Page 10, 2 - lamp control circuit
• Lab 1 pdf files