Description
Course Description: Whether you are new to the industry or are taking on additional responsibilities for electrical maintenance, a solid knowledge of the basics is essential to understanding the operations, maintenance and safety of any facility or factory site. This is a hands-on practical introduction to those concepts and skills that serves as a prerequisite to further training and career enhancements for both technicians and managers.
Prerequisites: None
Course Learning Objective:
- Fundamentals of matter, energy, and electricity
- Direct current (DC) fundamentals, including Ohm’s Law and calculating voltage, current, resistance and power in the DC systems
- Battery theory and operation
- Alternating current (AC) fundamentals, including application of Ohm’s and Kirchoff’s Laws to single- and three-phase circuits.
- How AC is generated
- Inductance, capacitance, and reactance
- How transformers work.