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Squealey
Hi All
I'm a newbie here so go easy on me if I come across as a bit dense please.
I'm 42 and for the past ten months have been working as a mechanical field service engineer for a company that sell and maintain machinery in the fresh produce business, think large scale fruit/veg weighing, punnet denesting, punnet filling, conveyors and a lot more. I actually spent 14 years as a mechanical engineer (until 2007) on different machines and in that time I obviously did pick up some electrical knowledge, but this new job shows me just how little I actually know. This isn't an issue to my company as at no point have I lied about my electrical prowess, but they have asked if I could look into what courses are available to me as the 'go to' electrician has suddenly upped sticks and left.
I have a (very) basic knowledge of fault finding by reading wiring diagrams, but I'll be honest, quite a lot of the time I'll stumble across the fix then I'll be able to look back and understand what was wrong, but I'd obviously prefer to see and understand whats wrong first.
The machinery is predominantly 3 phase supply and driven by PLC's and contactors. I need to understand signalling so one machine can tell another machine its ready. I believe these are normally 24v ac and dc signals.
Course wise, I'm field based and my company has asked me for all possible connotations, be it evening course, day release, internet course etc etc so they can make an informed decision on what will suit my needs best.
I live nr Spalding/Boston in Lincolnshire and my company is in Peterborough.
I have probably missed out loads of relevant information for which I apologise, but please let me know what extra info might be required and I'll do my best to answer.
Huge thanks for any information you can give me.
Wayne
I'm a newbie here so go easy on me if I come across as a bit dense please.
I'm 42 and for the past ten months have been working as a mechanical field service engineer for a company that sell and maintain machinery in the fresh produce business, think large scale fruit/veg weighing, punnet denesting, punnet filling, conveyors and a lot more. I actually spent 14 years as a mechanical engineer (until 2007) on different machines and in that time I obviously did pick up some electrical knowledge, but this new job shows me just how little I actually know. This isn't an issue to my company as at no point have I lied about my electrical prowess, but they have asked if I could look into what courses are available to me as the 'go to' electrician has suddenly upped sticks and left.
I have a (very) basic knowledge of fault finding by reading wiring diagrams, but I'll be honest, quite a lot of the time I'll stumble across the fix then I'll be able to look back and understand what was wrong, but I'd obviously prefer to see and understand whats wrong first.
The machinery is predominantly 3 phase supply and driven by PLC's and contactors. I need to understand signalling so one machine can tell another machine its ready. I believe these are normally 24v ac and dc signals.
Course wise, I'm field based and my company has asked me for all possible connotations, be it evening course, day release, internet course etc etc so they can make an informed decision on what will suit my needs best.
I live nr Spalding/Boston in Lincolnshire and my company is in Peterborough.
I have probably missed out loads of relevant information for which I apologise, but please let me know what extra info might be required and I'll do my best to answer.
Huge thanks for any information you can give me.
Wayne
