Course Outline

Fundamental Concepts

  • Electricity
  • Voltage
  • Ground or common
  • AC voltage & frequency load

Practical Applications

  • Meters
  • Signed numbers
  • Safety
  • Current
  • Resistance
  • Color code
  • Conductors & insulators
  • Wire size & type (AWG)

Units of Measurement

  • Prefixes
  • Technician's triangle
  • Head calculations
  • Ohm's Law
  • Power
  • Voltage drops
  • Safety
  • Ground faults

Circuits

  • Series circuits
  • Parallel circuits
  • Voltage dividers
  • Potentiometer
  • Rheostat

Components

  • Magnetic fields
  • Coils
  • Transformers
  • Clamp-on meters
  • Diodes
  • Bridge rectifier
  • Capacitors
  • Filters

Fundamental Circuit Parts

  • Power connections
  • AC wiring
  • Three-phase (Delta & WYE)
  • Fuses & breakers
  • Single-line diagrams
  • Switches & relays
  • Solenoid & contactors
  • NEMA & IEC ratings

Ladder Diagramming

  • Ladder symbols
  • Low-voltage control
  • Motor control centers
  • Motor starters
  • Thermal breakers
  • Proximity switches
  • Indicator lights
  • Filters

Motors

  • Fundamental concepts
  • Rotors & armature
  • Stators & fields
  • Generator action
  • DC motors
  • Three-phase motors
  • Single-line motors
  • Meter checks on motors

Electrical Controls

Instructor-led Training Course
Delivered at Your Location

MaintenanceResources.com can now bring high quality instructor-led training to your facility to help your staff more effectively work with and troubleshoot electrical controls.

This course can be tailored to address specific plant needs.

 

 In this forty hour hands-on course you'll learn how to:

  • Work safely with electricity

  • Use a clamp-on meter to make AC current readings

  • Read a resistor value from the color code

  • Use simple math to calculate voltage drops, current and resistance

  • Read single-line drawings

  • Read control-circuit ladder diagrams

  • Test relays, solenoids, contactors, switches, and motor starters

  • Understand basic principles of AC and DC motors

  • Use a multimeter to make voltage and current readings

  • Identify component parts in schematics and ladder diagrams.

Who Should Attend: Beginning electricians, equipment operators and people in skilled trades who are cross-training from other disciplines.
Length: 40 hours.
Class Size: Up to 12.
CEU's Awarded: 3.50
Format: Hands-on workshop.  One lab station for every two participants.
Course Customization: Call 1-800-777-0753 for a detailed outline or for information about tailoring this course to your specific needs.  
Pricing: Dependent on total number of training days delivered.
Course Location: Your site.

This course is delivered at your location.  For pricing information and to schedule your on-site sessions please contact a Sales Representative for our delivery partner, Learn Maintenance, at 1-800-777-0753.

 

 

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