About this course
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
Recent reviews
Simon is a wonderful person and a really good teacher . Would recomand him to all
Mihai R28 Mar 24
Mark was a brilliant tutor, and kept the course interesting and easy to get on. I struggled for the first couple of days, but was able to get my head around the subjects being taught. I left with a better understanding of the things I had previously found hard. Looking forward to coming back.
Kevin R29 Jul 23
The course overall was well laid out and thought through. The course content was as expected.
Reece H16 Jun 23