ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY

CLASS - XI / Subject Code - 819
After successfully completing the two years of Senior Secondary Skill Course the student would have acquired relevant appropriate and adequate technical knowledge together with professional skills and competencies in the field of Electrical Technology so that he/she is properly equipped to take up gainful employment in this vocation.

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:

The concepts, principles of working, maintenance, constructional details and functions of electrical motors, electrical appliances, measuring and testing instruments and electrical circuits.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:

Testing, installation, fault identification, and repairing of electrical motors, appliances, and instruments. Different types of electrical wiring.
Instructor
The relevant basic concepts and principles in basic science subjects (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) so that he/she is able to understand the different subjects.

Course Units

Electricity as a source of energy, Definition of Resistance, Voltage, Current, Power, Energy and their units, Relation between electrical, mechanical and thermal units, Factors affecting resistance of a conductor, Temperature co-efficient of resistance, Difference between AC and DC voltage and current.
Ohm’s Law, Series – parallel resistance circuits, calculation of equivalent resistance, Kirchhoff’s Laws and their applications
Primary cell, wet cell, dry cell, battery, series and parallel connections of cells, Secondary cells, Lead Acid Cell, Discharging and recharging of cells, common charging methods, preparation of electrolyte, care and maintenance of secondary cells
Joule’s Law of electric heating and its domestic applications, heating efficiency, lighting effect of electric current, filaments used in lamps, and gaseous discharge lamps, their working and applications.
Capacitor and its capacity, Concept of charging and Discharging of capacitors, Types of Capacitors and their use in circuits, Series and parallel connection of capacitors, Energy stored in a capacitor.
Permanent magnets and Electromagnets, their construction and use, Polarities of an electromagnet and rules for finding them.
Generation of A.C. voltage, its generation and wave shape. Cycle, frequency, peak value (maximum value), average value, instantaneous value , R.M.S. value, form factor, crest factor, phase, phase difference, power and power factor, A.C. Series Circuits with (i) resistance and inductance (ii) resistance and capacitance and (iii) resistance inductance and capacitance, Q factor of R.L.C. series circuits.
General characteristics of soldering & Desoldering, tools & procedures, adopted for soldering & Desoldering , brazing joints, processes and their characteristics, brief description of soldering and brazing tools equipment, types of solders and fluxes and their uses, soldering defects and their remedies, brazing materials, advantages and disadvantages of soldering and brazing.
Construction and working principles of moving iron and moving coil voltmeters and ammeters, dynamometer type wattmeter, ohm meter, megger and induction type energy meter- their circuit connection and application for measurement of electrical quantities, Digital Multimeter.
Schematic and wiring diagram for domestic simple wiring, symbols used for different electrical devices and equipments.
Types of wiring – cleat wiring, casing and capping, C.T.S./T.R.S. wiring, metal sheath wiring, conduit wiring and concealed wiring – their procedure.