(Employees ONLY) Basic Electrical Troubleshooting
This 12 week Wednesday Afternoon training is limited to 10 students and is offered free of charge to Access Electric Employees. The class will begin at 3:30 each Wednesday beginning March 1st and ending May 14th. The Registration link is at the top of this webpage. If you are wanting to take the course, go to the top and click register. Enter your information and you will be locked in for the course.
This is first come first serve and is limited to the first 10 people to register. If you are going to not take the training seriously then DO NOT register. That would not be fair to those who really want the training and are committed.
Learning Objectives
- Introduction (0.5 hours)
- Schedule
- Course Outline
- Electrical Theory Review (1.5 hours)
- Electrical Circuits
- Amps, Volts, & Ohms
- Ohm's Law
- Kirchhoff's Law
- Solving for Unknown Values in Series, Parallel, and Combination Circuit
- Electrical Safety (2 hours)
- Electrical Hazards
- Electrical Risk Assessment
- Electrical Safe-work practices
- Electrical Work Procedures
- LOTO
- Work Protection Boundaries
- PPE Selection
- IV. Electrical Test Instrument Operation (3 hours)
- A. Voltmeters
- B. Ammeters
- C. Ohmmeters
- Megohmmeter
- Digital Multi-meter Safety
- E. Miscellaneous Meters
- Frequency meters
- Infrared & Acoustic
- Power Quality Analyzers
- Thermometers
- Lumen meters (footcandles)
- Phase sequence meters
- Power Factor meters
- Electrical Components and Circuits (7 hours)
- A. Passive & Active Circuit Components
- Insulation & Conductors
- Switches
- Generators & Transformers
- Lights, Heaters, Motors, & Solenoids (Load)
- Labs:
- Indicators (lights)
- Switches
- NO & NC / MAIN-MOM
- Limit Switches
- Control Relays
- Timers
- Proximity Sensors
- Electrical Components and Circuits (continued 7 hours)
- Contactors & Motor Starters
- Electrical Circuits Illustrated in Ladder Diagrams
- Industrial Electrical Symbols
- Logic (IOs)
- Ladder Information, Ladder diagrams
- Electrical Troubleshooting Steps (6 hours)
- Shorts and Opens
- Troubleshooting Test Procedures
- Troubleshooting by Dividing Control Elements in Half (Divide and Conquer)
- Labs
- Measuring Amps, Volts & Ohms in a Circuit
- Measuring Current
- Rules for Troubleshooting
- Conclusion (1 hour)
- Review
- Final Exam