Description
Day 1
- Solenoids and actuators, principles of operation and maintenance
- State precautions that may be necessary when removing cores from energised AC solenoids
- Transformers, sizing, applications and uses
- Heaters, applications, uses and safety precautions to be observed
- Temperature controllers, various types, principles of operation and uses
- Thermal sensors, various types, principles of operation and uses.
Day 2
- Proximity devices, limit switches and proximity switches, various types, principles of operation and uses
- Practical workshop, gaining an understanding of typical connections of various proximity devices and the range
- of available supplies catered for, voltage levels and current type
- Development of a typical simple control system using push buttons, proximity devices, relays and indicator
- lamps.
Day 3
- Protection against overcurrent
- Protective devices, various types, suitability and uses
- Earthing, including principles of protection against indirect shock
- Undervoltage protection.
Day 4
- Cable and core termination techniques, including crimping and soldering
- Practical workshop terminating YY, SY, SWA and MICC cable
- Testing, basic principles of circuit protective conductor testing and insulation resistance testing, instruments
- used and expected values
- Practical workshop testing cables terminated previously and testing cables with faults on test rig.
Day 5
- Fault finding, safety precautions and principles
- Practical workshop on fault rigs
- Root cause analysis
- PPM and maximising uptime