LINE 251 - Installation and Troubleshooting Underground Distribution Systems

Institution:

Metropolitan Community College - Missouri

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Description:

3 credits. 5 hours. (Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 4 hours.) Prerequisite: LINE 250. The student will obtain basic discipline in the methods of working on energized lines with rubber gloves and rubber sleeves from an insulated aerial platform in a safe and efficient manner. Students will be exposed to the care and well-being of soft and hard shell rubber goods and their application. Students will also receive instruction on personal protective equipment, hot-line tools, live-line maintenance and will also review the safe operation of aerial platforms and grounding practices. Additionally, the student will gain working knowledge of URD systems. Students will receive practical experience in the direct burial of primary and secondary cables, installation of 200 and 600 amp elbows, splices, lightening arrestors and overhead terminations. The installation will also be covered. The requirements of shoring and sloping of trenches required by the safe work practices will be used in practical experience. Troubleshooting of primary and secondary cable fault locating, review of backhoe/trencher operation and safe work practices and procedures are also covered.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Institution Website:

www.mcckc.edu

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Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Unaccounted for code

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