Practical Electrical Controls, Wiring and Troubleshooting (ECM006)

•  Course duration: 5 days
• Course fee: N125,000

          Course Objective

• This 5 days course is developed to give hand on practical experience on electrical wiring, troubleshooting, maintenance, testing and inspections to attendees. The course is delivered using work place standard electrical equipment by our very experienced field electrical and controls engineers.

         Who Should Attend

• This course is opened to everyone who is interested in acquiring electrical practical skills applicable at industrial and domestic environment. Attendees must be able to write and read.

         Course Outline

     Day one:

• Safety Orientation and introduction to JSA, PTW and LOTO
• Introduction to DC Electricity
• Introduction to AC Electricity
• Electrical documentation
• Preventive and corrective maintenance
• Installation of cable trays
• Cable installation and general electrical wiring
• Installation of cable gland, termination and tagging
• Installation of Electrical motors, electrical lighting systems, etc.

     Day Two:

• Troubleshooting and maintenance of Transformers
• Troubleshooting and maintenance of Motors
• Troubleshooting and maintenance of Heaters
• Cables Continuity Testing
• Insulation Resistance Testing
• Earth Resistance testing
• Electrical relays principle, testing and application
• Electrical contactor principle, testing and application
• Circuit breaker principles, testing and operation
• Timer Relay setting and testing
• Interposing Relays and Surge Protectors
• Electrical fuse and overload relays testing and operation
• Current Transformer principles, Testing and operations
• Voltage Transformer principles, Testing and operation

      Day Three:

• Ingress Protection Rating
• Power and Power Factor
• Using Single Phase electricity supply to power up or test 3 phase electrical equipment
• 3 Phase Wye (or star) connection
• 3 Phase Delta connection
• 3 phase Star-Delta connection
• 3 Phase Motor starter connections
• 3 Phase Transformer connections
• Relay Programming
• Motor Starter; Direct On Line (DOM) Starter
• Motor Starter; Star Delta Starter
• Motor Starter; Auto Transformer Starter
• Motor Starter; Rotor Resistance Starter
• Equipment Rating and Sizing
• Inter tripping and Interlocking
• Black start

      Day Four:

• AC and DC UPS System
• DC battery chargers and batteries
• Solar Panels and inverter system
• Lighting
• Capacitor banks
• Thyristor control
• Earthing and Earth ELectrods
• Introduction to cathodic protection
• Lightning Protection
• Electrical Unit Control Panel (UCP)
• Motor Starters and LV Feeders Switchboard
• Emergency stop push buttons and control station
• Heat Tracing

      Day Five:

• Practice and revision
• Job Search counseling, Curriculum writing tips and restructuring of trainee CV- Bonus topic.
• Application for online jobs by attendees
• Copy training videos and materials for employees
• Final Assessment
• Issuance of certificate to attendees