The journeyman training for substation electricians is to be taken after completing the substation C-B series.
A Series - Four levels:
A100 - Week #1 (five-day session)
- Inspecting and assembling transformers on foundations
- Revising station prints
- Maintaining load tap changer/regulator controls
- Planning transformer outages
- Conducting low-voltage tests
- Inspecting load tap changers
- Calibrating gauges and switches
- Maintaining grounding banks
- Installing/maintaining station services
- Performing internal inspections
- Re-assembling transformers
- Reading/interpreting wiring and schematic prints
- Stretching and flexibility
A100 - Week #2 (five-day session)
- Servicing hydraulic mechanisms
- Servicing pneumatic mechanisms
- Installing station service and load tap changer potential transformers
- Completing infrared inspections
- Setting station equipment
- Planning circuit breaker outages
- Testing/analyzing circuit breaker timing
- Maintaining capacitor banks
- Performing internal maintenance on high-voltage oil circuit breakers
- Perform internal maintenance on high-voltage sulfur hexafluoride circuit breakers
- Perform internal maintenance on high-voltage air blast circuit breakers
- Maintaining high pressure compressors
- Stretching and flexibility
A200 - Week #1 (five-day session)
- Researching construction projects
- Layout of station sites
- Preparing construction sites
- Planning a transformer move from existing site
- Disassembling transformers
- Accepting new transformer by rail
- Maintaining condensers
- Constructing temporary station service
- Activating sudden pressure relays
- Stretching and flexibility
A200 - Week #2 (five-day session)
- Testing energize stations
- Maintaining circuit switchers
- Performing transfer trips
- Conducting ground resistivity tests
- Installing mobile units
- Spotting mobile and associated equipment
- Set-up mobile and associated equipment
- Conducting necessary electrical tests
- Placing mobile and associated equipment
- Servicing air-blast mechanism
- Stretching and flexibility
