Lab 1 Edc
Lab 1 Edc
Lab 1 Edc
Engineering
Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Experiment 1: Observe the Laboratory test Equipment (DC power Supply, Digital Multimeter,
Bread Board, Oscilloscope, Function Generator).
OBJECTIVES:
1. To become familiar with lab equipment.
2. To understand how to use all these equipment.
Objectives
To become familiar with lab equipment.
To understand how to use all these equipment.
Introduction
Bread board
An electrical device Bread board also known as solderless breadboard or protoboard used to build
prototypes of electronic circuit.
Unlike perfboard or stripboard (which are also used to build prototypes electronic circuits) it does not
require any kind of soldering (process of joining two metal surfaces together) that's why it is called
solderless breadboard.
It consists of Metallic rows and columns which are connected horizontally and vertically respectively, as
all of the terminals of rows are connected with each other and vice versa.
If we want to make a different rows connection, then we use a wire to make a connection between them
and it will be the same case with columns.
Bread boards are also be used for the testing of some parts.
Power Supply (PS)
Digital Multimeter or DMM used to take the measurements of Resistance, Voltage and current.
It can measure both of AC and DC currents and voltages.
we can set our DMM to Resistance, Voltage and Current mode depending upon what we need to
measure.
It is also use to troubleshoot the simple circuits to check what is or isn't working.
Oscilloscope
An oscilloscope is an instrument used to display and analyze the wave shape of electrical signals.
Commonly oscilloscope can display alternating current (AC) and also direct current (DC) wave shapes of
variable frequencies. The screen is divided into centimeter division in the vertical and horizontal
directions. while the horizontal scale is provided in time. The vertical sensitivity is provided in volts/cm,
while the horizontal scale is provided in time. You can also modify your generated wave like you can
change frequency, amplitude and also crest and trough of the wave.
Function generator:
The function Generator is a supply that typically provides different waves like sin-wave, square
wave, and triangular wave of different frequencies and amplitude. Although the frequency of the function
generator can be set desirably and the oscilloscope can be used to precisely set the output frequency as
mentioned above.
Conclusion
In this Lab we've learned about the equipment used in usually every electrical thing It includes
Power supply, Bread board and Digital Multimeter also the basic simple idea and information about the
oscilloscope and function generator used to see the graph of the waves and to generate them
respectively. This lab helped a lot in gaining some new and creative knowledge about the electrical
equipment and devices as well.