Electrical Basics Made Easy

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Join CaptiveAire for a professional development hour (PDH) about the basics of electricity, including discussions about how electricity is created and functions, Ohm's Law, the difference between direct and alternating currents, types of circuits and how they work, electromagnets, switches, basic safety, and more. This video is helpful for anyone who wants to learn more about electricity and how it functions. The next video in this series will provide an extensive overview of alternating current, as well as an explanation of motors and motor controls. Learn more about CaptiveAire at captiveaire.com.
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0:00 Introduction
1:07 Part 1 - Pushing Electrons
3:07 Atomic Level Science
8:30 A History of Electrical Discoveries
14:24 Why do lightbulbs glow?
15:33 Part 2 - Go With The Flow
15:37 Water Analogies
16:48 Ohm’s Law
17:37 Real World Measurements
20:32 Theory Into Practice
21:41 Series Circuits
24:00 Resistors
25:49 Parallel Circuits
29:49 Complex Circuits
30:32 Part 3 - Controlling Nature
30:56 Manual Switches
31:15 Schematics
31:48 Switch Poles and Throws
32:48 Magnetism Basics
33:45 Electromagnets
34:20 Permanent Magnets
36:00 Electromechanical Switches
38:03 Simple Switch Logic
39:12 Part 4 - Basic Safety
39:34 Why Wires Must be Protected
40:39 The American Wire Gauge
41:40 Circuit Protection Devices
41:48 Slow Trips
42:33 Short Circuits and Fast Trips
43:51 Ground in Electrical Devices
45:48 Bad Connections
47:50 Conclusion
48:08 The Next Video

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@jameslee4923 10 ай бұрын

After graduating high school and leaving the military as an infantryman I am now in school for HVACR in my late twenties. So I’m asking how and why a bunch of stuff works the way it does at the same time and it’s frying my brain 😅 I just finished watching your video on Commercial Heat Load Calculations and it helped me tremendously. Thank you for creating this style of content for folks like me it really helps.

@CAPTIVEAIRE 10 ай бұрын

@jameslee4923 Thanks for the comment and I'm glad it helped. I too went to a technical school in my late twenties and found it fascinating. I can relate to the feeling of "frying the brain," especially when you keep asking how and why. - German Tabor (presenter). PS: You may also benefit from our Refrigeration Cycle video as well our Psychrometrics video.

@michaelc.ucheibe2159 7 ай бұрын

Amazing video. I wish I could give it a million likes.

@azrinaz8993 10 ай бұрын

This channel deserves much more subs, the simplicity and easy to understand concepts is a gem for new and also older engineers. Great vids guys

@CAPTIVEAIRE 10 ай бұрын

We appreciate the kind words!

@sudheer843 Жыл бұрын

thank you very much CaptiveAire.really explained in a very easily understandable way. eagerly waiting for the remaining videos of the series.

@CAPTIVEAIRE Жыл бұрын

Thank you! The next video in the series is now out. This one goes into alternating current, transformers, and we even build a little motor from scratch. Here's the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iK1jmM-b0tfdoWg.html

@sudheer843 Жыл бұрын

@@CAPTIVEAIRE already watched it , it's just amazing. Thank you captiveAire

@michaellawrencedesignstudi3801 Жыл бұрын

This was great. Thank you.

@halim_betta 11 ай бұрын

This explanation is a gem 💎, Well done German👏

@CAPTIVEAIRE 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, this one was a lot of fun to make!

@ktga67ish Жыл бұрын

This is great!

@garypoplin4599 Жыл бұрын

17:22 - Wait! What?! You just said current was “A”. So, where did the “I” come from on the very next slide?! You just skipped right over that one!

@CAPTIVEAIRE Жыл бұрын

Good point. There are different ways to represent these things, the first slide showed the units used for measure, but there are often different terms used such as "I" for current (from the French translation of current "I"ntensity), or "E" for voltage (from "E"lectromotive Force). We probably should have mentioned this in the video, good catch!