Course Content
This is a practical training course which will cover the following areas of HV and LV operation:
Monday
- Electrical Safety
- Basic electrical theory
- Proving dead with approved methods and indicators
- Safe use of multi-meters and their limitations
- Test leads to GS38 standard
Tuesday
- Basic three phase principles – Single and three phase generation
- Prospective fault currents
- LV protection – Fuses, Circuit Breakers, Transformers, RCD’s
- Discrimination and diversity in electrical systems
Wednesday
- Earthing methods and bonding and the importance of earthing
- Induction motor operation, starting methods and testing
- Electrical test equipment – The safe use of the ‘Megger’
- Capacitance and inductance in electrical circuits – Safety implications
- Motor protection - Thermal, magnetic electro mechanical and electronic relays
- Feeder, transformer and generator protection overview
Thursday
- Methods of achieving discrimination with time, magnitude and comparison
- Understanding of the component parts in common electrical control panels - overloads, isolator, timers, relays, control, indication and power circuits
- Reading and understanding schematic diagrams
- Competence – familiarity with LV and HV installed systems
- Safe systems of work for dead fault finding techniques and practice
- Electric arcs awareness session
- Switching sequences for HV systems – Precautions; dead, isolated and earthed; risks, identified, Document,methods, general safety
Friday
- Switching procedure and instructions
- Preparing exercises in syndicate groups, basic switching instructions and fault finding tasks
- HV switching exercise