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Basic Electricity and Electronics for Control: Fundamentals and Applications 3rd Edition

This class-tested book gives you a familiarity with electricity and electronics as used in the modern world of measurement and control. Integral to the text are procedures performed to make safe and successful measurements of electrical quantities. It will give you a measurement vocabulary along with an understanding of digital and analog meters, bridges, power supplies, solid state circuitry, oscilloscopes, and analog to digital conversions. This book is about behavior, not design, and thus lends itself to an easy-to-understand format over absolute technical perfection. And where possible, applications are used to illustrate the topics being explained. The text uses a minimum of mathematics and where algebraic concepts are utilized there is sufficient explanation of the operation, so you may see the solution without actually performing the mathematical operations. This book is student centered. It has been developed from course materials successfully used by the author in both a college setting and when presented as short course study classes by ISA. These materials have been successful because of the insistence on practicality and solicitation of student suggestions for improvements. Basic Electricity and Electronics for Control will enhance student success in any industrial or technical school setting where basic technician training is to take place.

Lawrence (Larry) M. Thompson

Larry Thompson has been an ISA adjunct instructor since 1984 and has designed, developed, taught, and maintained industrial controls and networks in many varied applications. After earning his Bachelor of Applied Sciences from Tarleton State University, he began a career in data communications, including experience as a test engineer and test engineering supervisor for Reliance Telecom and as an instructor in instrumentation, computer networking/system administration, and e-commerce technology for Texas State Technical College. Larry also served twenty years in the U.S. Air Force, primarily in electronic encryption systems. In 1979 he started Electronic Systems development and training company (ESdatCo), a technical services business, and is presently under contract as an IT technical manager for a financial institution with eight remote sites. Larry is a Certified Control Systems Technician and presently instructs in ISA’s Certified Automation Profession exam review course. He holds an FCC Radiotelephone License (General, formerly First Class). Larry is the author of the following ISA books: Industrial Data Communications (4th edition) and Basic Electricity and Electronics for Control: Fundamentals and Applications (3rd edition).

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