Electrical Equipment Maintenance, Testing & Troubleshooting

This course provides maintenance technicians and non-electrical personnel working in industrial plants and commercial buildings with a thorough foundation in electrical maintenance. Through a combination of illustrated lectures, examples and exercises, students will learn how electrical systems work, how to maintain electrical safety, and how to install and troubleshoot common electrical equipment.

The entire course is valuable for students in university or institutes and professionals as it contains all the concepts of electrical maintenance in Industries and residential facilities. With simple and easy to understand explanations, the course is more practical, dynamic, comprehensive, and presented in the following methodologies:

• Lectures with video presentations and attachments.

• High quality digital handwritten content.

• Examples.

• Quiz, practice tests and assignments.

The course is divided in 7sections:

1. Course Overview

   1. Introduction and Course Structure.

2. Electrical Fundamentals

   1. Basic Tools.

   2. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

   3. Developing Safe Work Practices.

   4. Resistor Association: Series, Parallel, Wye, Delta and Combination.

   5. Capacitor and Inductor Association: Series and Parallel.

   6. Points Movement and Short-Circuit, Branches, Nodes, and Loops.

   7. Generation of DC, Single & Three-Phase AC and their Circuit Operating Principle.

   8. Power System.

3. Measuring and Testing

   1. How to Measure Ω, A, V, W, Hz and rpm.

   2. Attention When Measuring Ω, A, V.

   3. Multimeter, Clamp On Meter, Oscilloscope, Power Quality and Phase Sequence Meter.

   4. Insulation Resistance Meter.

   5. How to Measure Insulation Resistance in Motor, Transformer and MV/HV Insulator.

   6. How to Choose Insulation Resistance Test Voltage and Analyze Results.

   7. Simulation of Ω, A, V, W, Hz Metering and Wave Analyzer With Oscilloscope.

4. Basic Skills and knowledge for Electrical Circuit Troubleshooting

   1. Electrical Schematic Diagram Symbology.

   2. Voltage Levels used in LV Electrical Circuits.

   3. Local and Remote Control.

   4. Manual and Automatic Control.

   5. Sensors and Transducers.

   6. Power, Control and Signaling Circuits: Contactors, Relays, Interlocks, etc.

   7. Fuse, Circuit Breaker, Overload, Voltage and Frequency Relays.

   8. Electrical Timer and Latch Relays.

   9. Electrical Switchboards Accessories: Terminal Block, Din Rail, Cable Trunking.

   10. Buttons, Switches, Selectors, Siren, Signaling LED.

   11. Design of Power, Control and SIgnaling Circuits 1.

   12. Design of Power, Control and SIgnaling Circuits 2.

   13. AC and DC Motor Starting and Speed Control Methods.

   14. Example 1: Star-Delta Starter.

   15. Example 2: DC Motor with Separate Excitation Starting.

   16. Fundamental Rules for Creating and Reading Electrical Diagrams.

   17. Basics of Ladder Diagram and PLC Programming.

5. Practical Circuit Wiring and Panel Design

   1. Water Refill Tank Panel Design and Wiring.

   2. PLC Controlled Water Refill Tank Panel Design and Wiring.

   3. Assigment: PLC Ladder Diagram for Previous Lecture.

6. Maintenance, Testing and Troubleshooting of Common Electrical Equipments

   1. Electrical Maintenance and Testing of Common Equipments.

7. Final Considerations

   1. Contact for support.

What the student can expect from instructor?

• Clear in explaining theories and practical exercises

• Available to clarify doubts and explanations about specific course content

• Practical examples of the application of circuit analysis in EE employment

Students completing the course will emerge with the ability to reduce equipment downtime, improve facility safety, and fix problems on their own.

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• 2 stars: 8 votes
• 3 stars: 19 votes
• 4 stars: 57 votes
• 5 stars: 81 votes

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