Date: March 2020
Venue: Celbridge, Co. Kildare
Fee:€1995pp
Course fee with Limerick Chamber Skillnet – €1397 per person
Content for the 5 days in classroom is detailed below:
1: Electricity and Electrons. Effects of Electricity, Heating, Magnetic and Chemical. Ohms Law, Resistors in Series and Parallel including practical work, Kirchoff’s Current and Voltage Laws. Electrical Terms and Units.
2: AC and DC Voltage, RMS, Frequency, Waveforms, Capacitance, Farad, Circuits, Time Constant, Reactance. Inductance, Henries, Circuits, Reactance.
3: Magnetism, Right-hand Rule, Magnetic Field and Flux, AC Motor Operation, DOL, Star-Delta, Testing of Motors. Wire-up Control and Power Circuits to Operate a DOL Single-Phase Motor. 4: Control Circuits, Relay, Contactor, Graphic Symbols, Hold-On/Latch, Overload Relay. Structure of a Circuit.
5: Electrical Safety; Legal and Technical Management and Standards, Hazards, Fires, LockOut / TagOut, Fatalities, Injuries, Earthing and Bonding, RCD, MCB, Fuses, Distribution Boards, Safety Tips. Types of Overcurrent Faults. Safety features right throughout the course.
PLUS: Electrical Drawings: 3-Types, in-depth of Schematic, Reference Letters, Fault-finding and Trouble-Shooting, Panel and Plant Issues, Power Factor: Theory, Implications and Correction Programmable Logic Controllers: Features, PSU and I/O Electrical Panels: Building Convention, Design and Layout VSD / Inverters: Features, Construction, Pros and Cons Power Supply Units: Construction, Operation, O/P Waveform
On completion of the 2 days you will be passed a Log Book with a listing of Projects & Assignments for you complete and submit to ILDANA.
Course is made up of:
a) Total of 40 hrs classroom training
b) Log book 110 hrs of self-directed tutorials and assignments. (This log book to be passed to ILDANA approx 4 weeks after exams have taken place).
Exams: 2 x Theoretical 2 x Practical Exams
Theoretical Exam 1: Answer 20 out of 22 short-form questions Time allowed: 1.5 hours. (40% of course marks)
Theoretical Exam 2: Answer 5 out of 7 structured questions. Time allowed: 1.5 hours. (30% of course marks)
Practical Tasks 1 & 2: Time allowed: 1 hour each (2 x 15% = 30% of course marks)
Practical Task 1 will be completed on Day 4 of course.
Theoretical Exam 1, Theoretical Exam 2 and Practical Task 2 will be completed on Day 5 of course.
Topic: Industrial Electrical Systems / QQI Certified 6N5377
For this practical hands-on course each participant is supplied with the following:
- Work-board
- Box of tools
- Multi-meter
- Cables / Flex
- All components along with
- A set of notes
Places are limited to 6 per course.
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