Description

Motor Starters and Controls for Marine Gears 

This interactive training package should be used to enhance and supplement your knowledge and skills. It will provide familiarization with a variety of electrical appliances that are part of, or associated with, marine starter safety and control circuits. 

Using the detailed and accurate simulators, which are incorporated as part of this package, you will be able to practise and refine your troubleshooting knowledge and fault finding skills. 

This training package is appropriate for: 

• Management level marine engineers 
• operational level marine engineers 

• electricians with a lack of experience 
• engineering cadets 
• electrical engineering cadets 
• anyone who is starting to work with switchgear starters. 

Contents Listing: 

1 – Basics of Marine Switchgear Starters 

1.1 Basic Elements 

1.2 Basic Circuits 

2 – Basic Measurements 

2.1 Measuring a Circuit’s Potential Difference Using a Voltage Tester 

2.2 Measuring a Circuit’s Potential Difference Using a Digital Multimeter 

2.3 Measuring a Circuit’s Integrity Using a Digital Multimeter 

2.4 Induction Motor Basics 

2.5 Checking Stator Winding 

3 – Direct On Line (DOL) Motor Starters 

3.1 Induction Motor Starting Characteristic 

3.2 DOL Operating Principle 

3.3 DOL Starter Operation Basics 

3.4 Troubleshooting Technique Applied For DOL Starter Power and Control Circuits 

3.5 DOL Starter Reversing 

3.6 Protection and Monitoring Relays 

3.7 DOL Starter Simulator with Incorporated Protection and Monitoring Relays 

4 – Star-Delta (Wye-Delta) Motor Starters 

4.1 Starting Characteristic 

4.2 Operation Principle 

4.3 Star-Delta Starter Simulator 

4.4 Fault Finding Technique 

4.5 Star-Delta Starter Application 

4.6 Star-Delta Reversing Starter Simulator 

4.7 Motor Starters Troubleshooting Chart