
DC Equipment and Controls
The DC Equipment and Controls electrical course covers DC power applications in industry, types of DC generators, operating characteristics of DC motors, DC armature principles, and armature maintenance and repair. Includes types of DC relays, DC controllers, overspeed and overload protection, drum and reversing controllers, dynamic braking, DC power supplies, diodes, semiconductors, SCR principles, and DC maintenance practices. This course has no prerequisites. DC Equipment and Controls is available in online maintenance training and course manual training formats. TPC Training is authorized by IACET to offer 0.5 CEUs for the online version of this program. Lesson 1 - DC Power in Industry Topics: DC generators and motors; Rectifiers; SCR speed control; Storage batteries; Electroplating; Electrolytic refining; Arc welding Learning Objectives: – List the advantages of dc over ac. – List the brush problems caused by eddy cu