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- Scope of the electrician trade. Safety rules and safety signs. Types and working of fire extinguishers.
- First aid safety practice. Hazard identification and prevention. Personal safety and factory safety. Response to emergencies e.g. power failure, system failure and fire etc.
- Concept of Standards and advantages of BIS/ISI. Trade tools specifications. Introduction to National Electrical Code-2011.
- Allied trades: Introduction to fitting tools, safety precautions.
- General concept of rotating electrical machines. Principle of DC generator. Use of Armature, Field Coil, Polarity, Yoke, Cooling Fan, Commutator, slip ring and Brushes, Laminated core etc. E.M.F. equation Separately excited and self excited generators. Series, shunt and compound generators.
- Armature reaction, Commutation, inter poles and connection of inter poles. Parallel Operation of DC Generators. Load characteristics of DC generators. Application, losses & efficiency of DC Generators. Routine & maintenance.
- Principle and types of DC motor.
- Chemical effect of electric current and Laws of electrolysis. Explanation of Anodes and cathodes. Types of cells, advantages / disadvantages and their applications. Lead acid cell; Principle of operation and components. Types of battery charging, Safety precautions, test equipment and maintenance. Basic principles of Electro-plating and cathodic protection Grouping of cells for specified voltage and current. Principle and operation of solar cell.
- I.E. rules on electrical wiring. Types of domestic and industrial wirings. Study of wiring accessories e.g.
- Resistors – colour code, types and characteristics. Active and passive components. Atomic structure and semiconductor theory.
- P-N junction, classification, specifications, biasing and characteristics of diodes. Rectifier circuit - half wave, full wave, bridge rectifiers and filters. Principle of operation, types, characteristics and various configuration of transistor. Application of transistor as a switch, voltage regulator and amplifier.
- Basic concept of power electronics devices.
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