Everything electrical on a plant floor rests on a small set of ideas: voltage, current, resistance, and how they behave when components are wired in series or in parallel. Learn those properly once, and a multimeter stops being a device you point hopefully at things and becomes the fastest way to find out what is actually happening in a circuit.
This course builds that foundation hands-on. You will connect, adjust, operate, troubleshoot, and analyze electrical circuits using resistors, capacitors, inductors, DC motors, solenoids, manual switches, relays, fuses, circuit breakers, transformers, and indicators. You will follow electrical safety rules, read electrical circuit diagrams, apply Ohm's Law and Kirchhoff's Laws to predict what a circuit should do before you measure it, use a digital multimeter to confirm it, interpret series and parallel circuits, and assess power requirements and circuit protection. It is the starting point for every other electrical course in the program.
This course prepares you to test for the Smart Automation Certification Alliance (SACA) C-201 Electrical Systems 1 certification.