
Learn to design electric motor control circuits, while all circuits taught in this course are practical.
Explore how fuses protect motor circuits by opening on overcurrent, compare with circuit breakers, and review cartridge, cylindrical, and hrc fuse types with operating voltage, current rating, and braking capacity.
Understand how relays use normally open and normally closed contacts, coils, and armatures to control power circuits; learn relay symbol, standard contact numbering, and basic control circuits with start-stop actions.
Explore timing relays in control circuits, focusing on on delay timer and delay timer functions, using coils and contacts to create delays.
Protect electric motors with overload, over-current, over-voltage, and under-voltage relays that sense abnormal conditions and trip the circuit breaker to prevent damage.
Explore flow switches that detect air or liquid movement using reed contacts and normally open/closed configurations, wired to alarms to signal no-flow conditions.
Learn to select overcurrent protection for a squirrel cage induction motor using the National Electrical Code, sizing circuit breakers and fuses with 125 percent continuous load and time-delay factors.
Select the main circuit breaker to protect the main feeder against overcurrent, using 125 percent and NEC guidelines to determine size and appropriate cable and protective device settings.
Select the proper transformer size based on load estimation and total connected load. Apply demand and diversity factors, assess voltage drop, and plan power factor correction, derating, and future growth.
Compare liquid immersive oil type transformers and dry type transformers, noting their tank and insulating liquid construction, indoor safety requirements, and oil type's lower losses and higher efficiency.
Perform a voltage drop test using loop current, 50 meter cable length, and five parallel 300 mm2 cables, yielding a 4.5% drop at the main distribution board.
Calculate short-circuit current at the main distribution board using the impedance method, incorporating transformer and cable reactances, per-unit impedance, and system base power.
Wire the control circuit from a single location using pushbutton start/stop, the circuit breaker and overload relay auxiliary contact, and connect the contactor coil to terminals 95–96 and 11–14.
Examine the motor control circuit from the previous lesson, explain why the bailout lamp stays on when the motor is disconnected, and show overload trip behavior.
Operate the power circuit and control circuit at different voltage levels, including ac voltages from 200 to 600 v and dc voltages from 12 to 60 v, as shown.
Explore how a single motor uses a three-location start and three-location stop wiring, including series and parallel push buttons, normally closed auxiliary contacts, and momentary control for reliable motor control.
Learn to design a dual-motor control circuit using a double push button, normally open and normally closed contacts, and a contactor to start one motor while stopping the other.
Design a three-motor control circuit with motor overload protection, enabling start/stop of any motor and sequential starting: motor 2 after motor 1, motor 3 after motor 2, via auxiliary contacts.
Learn how to reverse a three-phase induction motor by swapping two phases and applying interlock between forward and reverse contactors in power and control circuits.
Design an elevator control circuit that uses a contactor and normally closed limit-switch contacts to auto stop at floors and reverse motor direction from forward to reverse using start buttons.
Explore an elevator control circuit simulation that uses forward and reverse motor rotation with a distance limit, interlocks, and limit switches to travel between floors.
Design a two-motor power and control circuit in which the second motor starts after a defined delay using a timer and contactors, with auxiliary contacts managing start and stop.
Explore the TN earthing system and how protective earth and neutral conductors integrate in three phase system, from protective areas to service head, ensuring earth and neutral separation.
This course Electric Motor Control explain the fundamental concepts of designing and maintaining electrical control for the three phase induction motors.
Design simple and complex control circuits.
all circuits discussed in this course are practical.
first section electrical control and protective devices is about fundamental components of motor controls, devices that control the flow of current in circuits. circuit breakers , fuse , relays , switches , contactor and timers.
second section is about sizing electric motor panels.
third section is about electric control circuits.