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Control Technology Post 16



ISBN 1 898126 01 1
All rights reserved. This book is copyright material but permission is granted to make photocopies of pages for classroom use provided that the copies are used exclusively within a purchasing institution. No other reproduction, storage in a retrieval system or transmission in any form or by any means may be made without prior permission from The Engineering Council.


AUTHORS
TEP acknowledges original contributions
made to the development of this publication by:

Alan Jarvis F.Eng.
Andy Bardill
Torben Steeg
Nigel Leighton
John Cave

Design and layout by Peter Stensel
Line illustrations by James Wilkinson and Peter Stensel
 

Series Editor
John Cave Middlesex University
CONTENTS

Introduction to Control

Title Page

 UNIT 1 Monitoring and control systems
 UNIT 2 Stepper motor control and applications
UNIT 3 Signals from strain: designing and making 'overload protection' systems
UNIT 4 Designing and making a servomotor control system
UNIT 5 An environmental control system: automatic watering
UNIT 6 Electronic 'cam' timer

STUDY FILES
1. Decade counter (CMOS 4017)
2. The programmable logic controller (plc)
3. The TEP PLC
4. The TEP bit by bit controller
5. Possible applications of the bit by bit controller
6. The pulse duration modulation (p.d.m.) servo
7. Prototyping control systems using systems electronics boards
8. Mathematical representation of control systems
9. Continuous control
10. Sequential control
11. Investigating control systems using alpha boards
12. Stepper motor driver SAA 1027
13. Timing diagrams
14. Programming a washing machine cycle
15. Making a printed circuit board
16. Logic gates
17. Transducers
18. The Field Effect Transistor (FET)

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