The purpose of this book is to teach and demonstrate the basics of the Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley Micro800 family of programmable logic controllers. Information is provided to help the reader get and operate an inexpensive Micro810 programmable logic controller, associated hardware, and software. Examples with circuit diagrams are provided to demonstrate Micro810 ladder logic program capabilities. Information is also provided to relate the Micro810 to other programmable logic controllers. The person completing the examples will be able to write useful ladder logic programs for the entire Micro800 family of programmable logic controllers.

LabVIEW has the market on instrumentation to personal computer data retrieval and data manipulation. It is also capable of controlling instrumentation and equipment. It has few competitors. Monster.com has hundreds of advertisements for jobs requiring LabVIEW. The first purpose of this book is to quickly teach an electrical engineer or technologist how to use LabVIEW. The reader learns by example. Complete keystroke-to-keystroke details are provided for problem solution and documentation. Half of this book's examples demonstrate LabVIEW's abilities as a stand-alone programming language for performing numeric electrical computations. The other half gives examples with simulated and actual sensor and control circuits. The simplest and most basic uses of LabVIEW are in the first examples. The reader could use the examples' solutions as starting models for his own programs. It is assumed that the reader has an analytical electrical background of the sort that would be gained in a university electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology program. LabVIEW is available in a free 30 day full featured evaluation version. Its key features can be learned in 30 days.

The object of this book is to quickly teach an electrical engineer or technologist how to use Mathcad. Mathcad simultaneously solves and documents calculations. It is oriented toward non-programmers who need to solve numerical engineering problems. Users like Mathcad because its programs follow the natural format of manual calculations. Complete keystroke-to-keystroke details are provided for problem solution and documentation. The reader learns by example. As a calculating tool, Mathcad solves equations. The equations are entered into Mathcad in a format similar to that used in manual calculations. It will solve mesh equations with real or complex numbers and will solve differential equations. Outputs can be numerical or graphical. Mathcad will also do symbolic calculations, meaning that it can reduce complex systems of equations to simpler equations. Documenting calculations is a major reason that Mathcad is used in modern industry. Calculations that in the past might have been recorded in notebooks, or even on easily lost scraps of paper, are now done with Mathcad to take advantage of the accuracy, neatness, traceability, and standardization it provides. Mathcad is available in a free 30 day demonstration version. The key features of Mathcad can be learned in 30 days.

The object of this book is to teach the beginner the basics of three popular power system analysis programs. These programs are designed to simulate and analyze electrical power generation and distribution systems in normal operation and in short-circuit. The programs also have many add-on options like protection selection, arc flash analysis, transmission line sag & tension, raceway calculations, transient motor starting, etc. The programs have Demo (demonstration or trial) versions to allow people to tryout and learn about them. This book provides the engineer and technologist with information needed to use the Demo versions of SKM, ETAP, and EDSA for load flow and short-circuit analysis. The beginner learns how to use them on a small, but realistic, three-phase power system. The information gained is similar to that which students pay for in company-taught "Introduction to ..." courses. However, with this book, the student avoids paying tuition, learns at times of his own convenience, and can compare the different programs. In this book, load flow (power-flow) and short-circuit analyses are done on a small steady-state three-phase power system with manual methods. Then, each program is used to carry out the same analyses. Since in practice, three-phase systems are the most often analyzed, only three-phase systems will be considered in this book. The DC and single-phase capabilities of the programs will not be considered. The person using this book should already have an analytical electrical background. Academically, he should be educated to at least the level of a university two-year electrical engineering technology program.

This book shows how to use PSpice to quickly analyze common industrial power electronic and power circuits. It would be most useful to an electrical engineer. The book begins with a brief review of PSpice with DC, AC, and transient analyses of simple circuits. It follows with examples that solve typical industrial circuit problems. One of the examples predicts the waveform of the electrical noise that would be transmitted through an inductor. In that example, PSpice would help the engineer properly size a filtering inductor. This can be important if the inductor is large or a custom item. Other examples find steady state and transient solutions for unbalanced three phase faults. PSpice's Probe program is used to make realistic output traces of transient analysis voltages, currents, and powers. All of the books examples are done with the free (Demo) Release 16.0 version of PSpice. Sources for obtaining free (Demo) copies of PSpice and other Spice programs are provided.

This book teaches and demonstrates the basics of GE Fanuc Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). It does this with the GE Fanuc Nano PLC. The Nano uses a simpler (Lite) version of the same Machine Edition programming software as the larger and more expensive GE Fanuc PLCs. Information is provided to help the reader get and operate a Nano PLC. Examples with ladder program diagrams and circuit diagrams are provided to demonstrate Nano and Machine Edition capabilities.

This book teaches and demonstrates the basics of the Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1000 programmable logic controller. Information is provided to help the reader get and operate an inexpensive MicroLogix 1000 and associated hardware and software. Examples with ladder diagrams and circuit diagrams are provided to demonstrate different MicroLogix 1000 capabilities. Background information is provided to relate the MicroLogix 1000 to other programmable logic controllers.