Course Schedule

Testing & Troubleshooting of Electrical Power Supply

This training course has been developed to assist Electrical personnel to be able to understand, maintain and troubleshoot common problems and some uncommon problems, within modern and existing Electrical Equipment. The training course will also provide delegates with an overview and understanding of a variety of different Electrical Equipment and systems.

This training course will be of extreme benefit to Electrical personnel, who need to maintain their skills and competence and also, for newly qualified Electrical personnel, to achieve the skills required to Troubleshoot and Maintain Electrical Equipment.

This training course is increase the awareness of the required diagnostic skills of engineers and maintenance teams on Modern Power systems. The training course will revolve around maintenance, troubleshooting and fault finding techniques used in today's modern systems.

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

  • Elaborate on a variety of Electrical faults
  • Discuss Electrical fault finding procedures
  • Examine Maintenance and condition monitoring
  • Describe the function of a Transformer
  • Describe the need for an efficient Earthing system
  • Interpret Cabling systems and fault-finding techniques

Introduction and Safety

  • Types of fault and factors affecting fault levels
  • Maintenance of electrical equipment
  • Managing maintenance
  • Safety
  • Balanced and unbalanced faults
  • Safe working practices and isolation procedures

Maintenance of Electrical Equipment

  • Safe working practices and isolation procedure's
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Preventative Maintenance
  • Reactive Maintenance and Troubleshooting
  • Condition monitoring

Maintenance Engineering

  • Electrical Testing for Troubleshooting
  • Transformer maintenance
  • Generator maintenance
  • Transformer components and trouble shooting
  • Maintenance of electric motors
  • Power electronics and Pulse width modulation invertors
  • AC Machine components and problem solving

Troubleshooting, Maintenance and Cable Faults

  • Synchronous Generators
  • Generator maintenance and Troubleshooting
  • Variable speed drives and Harmonics
  • Cable fault locating
  • External influences

Cabling and Maintainability

  • Compatibility of equipment
  • SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
  • Compatibility of electrical equipment
  • Maintainability of electrical equipment
  • Concepts of protective system protection