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Troubleshooting Guide for Electricians

Troubleshooting Guide for Electricians

Troubleshooting Guide for Electricians

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Hello,
I need to put together a troubleshooting guide or checklist for the electricians in my facility.  The facility is a hydroelectric generating station.  Before I re-invent the wheel, does anyone know of any guides or checklists already developed.

Thank you for your time
wbd

RE: Troubleshooting Guide for Electricians


I mean no offense, but you may be hard pressed in finding a list of very wide scope as that of electrical troubleshooting.  Time is better spent formally teaching operation of controls, then the “end user” can approach the problem logically [and safely.]  Beyond that, a power-generating facility would offer its own, very unique set of conditions and consequent approach to troubleshooting mechanisms.  Where industrial and institutional processes are involved, this takes a significant about of time [classroom and field] to orient and cultivate inexperienced personnel.  Related systems do not seem to be getting even slightly less complicated.

Every other sentence in such a list would have to contain the instruction similar to “Be intimately familiar with the hazards of this task.  Do This Safely.  Do not proceed if this cannot be done safety.”   To be effective and productive [and safe] the philosophy and thought process of troubleshooting is as important as the mechanism of discrete procedures. That, in most cases, is complicated by the fact that the system of interest is or has been operational and thus usually presents some additional risk to the troubleshooter—compared to a “cold” [yet operational] system.  It may be fair to say that  a number of tools and instruments have their own specific sort of “troubleshooting guide.”

See www.themeterguy.com/Theory/troubleshooting.html for some related commentary.  More specifically, it is possible the US Bureau of Reclamation FIST standards have some basic concepts the could be extended to “checklist" development in your operation, indexed at www.usbr.gov/power/data/fist_pub.htm The US military is likely to have applicable online documentation, like that at sites such as www.usace.army.mil Also not to be overlooked are the inevitable Environmental, Safety and Health verbiage such as http://www.llnl.gov/es_and_h/esh_prog/eshprog.html

Nowadays these aspects must have clear personal, individual understanding and accountability as root facets in troubleshooting practice and resolution.
  

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