Course Description

The primary goal of this course is to learn participants how to protect themselves and others from injuries coming, directly or indirectly, from electricity. Learning common-sense electrical troubleshooting techniques will help them to achieve this goal as well as keeping facilities and equipment up and running. This course covers the basic electrical and electronics including fundamentals of electrical principles and electrical practices and electricity problems  

Course Objectives

·         Learning how to use electrical installation tools

·         Beaing able to read control system schematics

·         Learning how to recognize the elements and operations of circuits

·         Being familiar with the types of faults

·         Understanding the types of controls and their operation 

·         Practicing hands-on troubleshooting

Who Should Attend?

·         Maintenance supervisors

·         Beginner electrician

·         Technician

·         Building maintenance worker

·         Service technicians

·         Contractors

·         Energy auditors

·         Layout professionals

Program Schedule

DAY 1

·         Electrical theory, atoms and elements and compounds

·         Electric charges and electron flow

·         The importance of electrical safety and safe electrical practices

·         Electrical references and tools needed for electric troubleshooting

DAY 2

·         Color codes encountered as an electrician

·         Capacitive circuits, inductive circuits, and resistive circuits

·         Insulators and conductors 

·         Metering and explain the types of meters

·         Analog and digital meters

DAY 3

·         Ghost voltage

·         Reading measurements

·         Circuit conductors, connections, and protection

·         Ohms law and power formula

·         What are series circuits and parallel circuits

DAY 4

·         Magnetism and electromagnetism

·         The difference between solenoids and transformers

·         Current draw

·         Temperature compensation

·         Transformer taps / connections

DAY 5

·         Electric motors in industry

·         What circuit elements and what are complex circuits

·         Load power requirements and power sources

·         High and low voltage and voltage stabilizers and transient voltage

·         Electrical requirements for control, protection, monitoring, and improper phase sequencing