VOA 795 - Automated Facilities Technician - Part 5

9 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn about basic electrical principles, intermediate hardware, and software concepts related to Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), and intermediate level programming and troubleshooting concepts. Topics to be covered include: resistance, voltage, current and power, schematic symbols and diagrams, voltage, current and resistances using Ohm’s law, the ability to safely and accurately read a voltmeter and ohmmeter, intermediate level instruction, forcing, skipping logic, errors, and processor faults.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to:
1. define resistance, voltage, current, and power;
2. identify and read schematic symbols and diagrams;
3. calculate voltage, current, and resistance using Ohm’s laws;
4. demonstrate the ability to safely and accurately read a voltmeter, ammeter, and
ohmmeter;
5. describe typical wiring configurations for power supplies and input/output cards;
6. identify and edit timer, counter, one-shot, and math instructions;
7. explain what forcing an input/output means; and
8. list types of processor errors and their causes.