Switches and Relays

January 7, 2016
In this lab we learned about different types of switches and relays. We learned the difference between Single Pole Single Throw switches and Single Pole Double Throw switches and the many different combinations that these can occur in. I also learned how to read a schematic and display it on to a breadboard. at first this was challenging for me to get the hang of but I eventually got the hang of it and it became easy for me to understand. I also learned that a relay is controlled by a low voltage or small current and switches a larger voltage or higher current. in this lab we used a relay and a switch to build a relay driven LED. we were to build it so that when the button is pressed, the relay wil make the first LED go out and the second LED turn on. In the second activity we added a Capacitor  in a Relay Oscillator.