Suitable for students with no experience in electricity and electronics, this volume in the CDX Master Automotive Technician Series introduces students to the basic skills and tools they need to perform electrical diagnosis in the shop. Utilizing a “strategy-based diagnostics” approach, this book helps students master technical trouble-shooting in order to properly resolve the customer concern on the first attempt.

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Automotive Electricity and Electronics, Fourth Edition, provides complete coverage of the parts, operation, design, and troubleshooting of automotive electricity and electronics systems. Real examples and full color images throughout the text offer readers a practical approach to the diagnosis and repair of the NATEF tasks for the Automotive Electricity/Electronic Systems (A6) content area. Thoroughly revised and updated, the fourth edition has been peer reviewed by automotive instructors and experts in the field to ensure technical accuracy. This text is fully integrated with MyAutomotiveKit–an online resource for instructors and students that provides time-saving help for homework, quizzing, testing, multimedia activities, and videos. For more information: http://www.myautomotivekit.com.

This textbook will help you learn all the skills you need to pass all Vehicle Electrical and Electronic Systems courses and qualifications. As electrical and electronic systems become increasingly more complex and fundamental to the workings of modern vehicles, understanding these systems is essential for automotive technicians. For students new to the subject, this book will help to develop this knowledge, but will also assist experienced technicians in keeping up with recent technological advances. This new edition includes information on developments in pass-through technology, multiplexing, and engine control systems. In full colour and covering the latest course specifications, this is the guide that no student enrolled on an automotive maintenance and repair course should be without. Designed to make learning easier, this book contains: Photographs, flow charts, quick reference tables, overview descriptions and step-by-step instructions. Case studies to help you put the principles covered into a real-life context. Useful margin features throughout, including definitions, key facts and ‘safety first’ considerations.

The Auto Electricity and Electronics Workbook provides questions that reinforce and review textbook content. Organized to follow the textbook on a chapter-by-chapter basis, the Workbook assignments help students engage with the textbook content and aid in effective retention of key facts, ideas, and concepts.

Aim is to provide a broad understanding of the many systems and component parts that constitute the vehicle electrical and electronics in a detailed way. The book should also be a valuable source of information and reference. The book provides clear explanation of vehicle electrical and electronic components and systems with unique illustrations, which should be of value both to the students and to the experienced faculty members. Each chapter takes the reader systematically through the details of each component system. Key topics are emphasized and are reinforced by numerous illustrations.

This textbook comprehensively covers automotive electricity and electronics beginning at the basic circuit level, building up to computer control and digital storage oscilloscopes (DSOs). This is the only text with complete coverage of DSOs including explanations with what they are, when to use them, how to set them up and how to read them. Good and bad patterns are evaluated and illustrated with actual fluke DSO patterns. The repair and testing of starting, charging and ignition systems are emphasized.

The key to unlocking today's automotive technology is a clear understanding of electricity and electronics. Here are the fundamentals needed to work on the new systems and applications. Covering everything from the history of electronic applications to fundamental theory and on to troubleshooting and servicing, this text leaves no gaps in training tomorrow's technician.