Transformer School (ELT117AB)
Paul Joseph Klutz MD Library and Education Center, Maiden, NC
Monday, November 04, 2024
- Friday, November 08, 2024
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COURSE DESCRIPTION & OUTLINE
The Transformer School will cover the basics of installing, maintaining and troubleshooting transformers and banks. Participants will apply this knowledge and skills towards installing overhead transformers and underground three-phase banks.
- Basic Electricity Principles
- Energizing Transformers
- Ferroresonance
- How to Draw and Read Vector Diagrams
- Secondary Rotation
- Single-phase Transformer Installation and Connections
- Single-phase Transformer Load Checks
- Special Purpose Transformers
- Three-phase Transformer Bank Connections
- Three-phase Transformer Bank Load Checks
- Transformer Construction
- Transformer Information and Characteristics
- Transformer Polarity
- Transformer Principles
- Underground Transformers
- Transformer Voltage Testing
- Wye and Delta Systems Characteristics
Students are required to bring Required PPE (hard hat, work gloves, rubber gloves and protectors, ANSI Z87 safety glasses, work boots). Students are encouraged to bring a clean pair of shoes to wear inside the classroom. Those with damaged or defective equipment will be dismissed
This school is not intended to certify an individual as outlined in (a) (2) (vii) of the 1910.269 Electrical Power Generation Transmission and Distribution Standard.
TIMES
- Monday: 9:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
- Tuesday – Thursday: 8:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
- Friday: 8:00 a.m.– 12:00 p.m.
PRICE
- Members: $849
- Associate Members: $1199
- Non-Members: $1749
Price includes workbook, snacks and lunch Monday – Thursday. Class size is limited to 25.
PREREQUISITES: None
AFFILIATED PROGRAMS: This course satisfies Safety School requirements for the ElectriCities Lineworker Career Development, Underground Career Development, and Apprenticeship (Level III) Programs.
NASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: This course is part of the Nash Community College Electric Line Construction Technology Degree program. Successful completion of the ElectriCities Transformer School grants participants credit for Nash’s “Overhead Line Construction IV-AB” (ELT 117AB).
CANCELLATION POLICY: If a course is cancelled by ElectriCities, all registrants will be notified with a full registration fee refund. A non-refundable registration fee will be charged for cancellations after the deadline of October 21, 2024.