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May 03, 2024
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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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BCOT 220 - Electrical Troubleshooting Techniques
PREREQUISITES: CONT 127 - Electrical Basics or INDT 113 - Industrial Electrical I
PROGRAM: Construction Technology
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 2
LAB HOURS MIN: 2
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Summer, 2011
Presents methods and techniques for troubleshooting appliances, motors, motor controls, relay wiring, commercial wiring and industrial wiring systems.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:
- Operating principles of DC generators.
- Single Phase AC generation principles.
- Physical and electrical characteristics of three phase alternators.
- Wiring for alternators.
- Basic principles of transformers.
- Single phase transformers connected in Delta.
- Wye and Delta connections of single phase transformers.
- Instrument transformers.
- Three phase transformers.
- National electrical code requirements for transformers installations.
- Think critically and independently analyze, synthesize, and evaluate technical problems and information.
- Identify and interpret health, safety, and welfare standards as dictated by local, state or federal agencies.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Interpreting wiring prints
- The sequence of operation of machines
- Calculating methods of isolating electrical problems in commercial/industrial and residential systems
- The separately excited DC generator
- The self-excited shunt generator
- The compound-wound DC generator
- Introduction to polyphase circuits
- Engine-driven generating sets
- Parallel operation of three-phase alternators
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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