A Compact Experimental Device for the Study of Transient Mode in Electrical Circuits

Higher technical education has as its primary objective the transmission of theoretical knowledge of specialty but also practical activities whereby students acquire the habits and practical skills necessary for future engineering careers. The acquisition of practical abilities takes place during the laboratory classes during which the students have the opportunity to make experimental installations, to work with modern technical equipment, to collect and interpret experimental data. In this paper is presented a compact didactic use equipment designed for studying the transient mode in electrical circuits (charging/discharging of a capacitor, a R, L, C circuit operating powered by a rectangular signal source) realized on modern pedagogical principles that comes in support of students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Craiova. Validation of the experimental device dimensioning accuracy was achieved by comparing the results obtained using the new experimental platform with the results obtained by computerized modeling using dedicated software.