UTIL211

The outcome of this intermediate course is electrical skills training, as applicable to the use and installation/maintenance of batteries, fuses, transformers, and regulators according to Substation Preferred Practices. It also provides the knowledge and skill to safely perform maintenance in electrical substation and switchyards. Students will understand and apply the proper cable pulling/bus work techniques and learn to install substation conductors/wire and switches and apply grounding techniques. An in-depth study and practice of lockout-tagout procedures is applied. The daily maintenance procedures are honed for substation power transformers; such as TTR testing, TCG/O2 testing, oil dielectric testing DGA sampling according to Substation Practices. Battery Impedance Testing is also included in this course. This course is offered only in the Fall term.(Prerequisite: UTIL-112)