Fundamentals of Electrical Instrumentation

In this course you will learn the Fundamentals of Electrical Instrumentation – you will learn about the different types of devices, sensors, and circuits used in this field.

Instrumentation is the vital ingredient that enables the process control systems of buildings and factories to run smoothly. Within these  process control systems are numerous instrumentation devices that take measurements and perform operations which are transmitted and received via electrical circuits – in other words along the wires that they are connected to!

It takes a skilful person to know how these electrical circuits work and how the wiring must be connected. That’s where you come in!

After completing this course, you will know how to wire up digital (discrete) & analog instrumentation devices and understand how the electrical circuits connected to them work.

Electrical instrumentation devices come in many forms, the four types that we will focus on in this course are:

–Digital (discrete) Inputs

–Digital (discrete) Outputs

–Analog Inputs

–Analog Outputs

In the course we will start off by looking at Digital Inputs, we will learn about what digital input devices are used for and learn how to connect them to a controller in sink and source configuration. Connecting a push button and a proximity sensor as digital input devices will be demonstrated.