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To be successful at lighting sales today you must answer much more than: "What is the price of your T8 lamp?" This special conference is a "deep dive" into GE Lighting sales tools including the new Value Light 4.0 and the new Lighting Assistant. The participant will become fluent in financial measures like Life Cycle Costing (LCC), Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) while exploring the challenge of cost-justifying LED upgrades. We will recognize that there are several "Cost of Light" models that can be used for different situations. Additionally, we will learn to analyze retrofit options and design simple lighting layouts, suggest group relamping schedules, estimate environmental impact and calculate demand reduction and utility rebates. Finally we will examine how to bring all this together into a compelling proposal.
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This course is designed for the lighting professional who wants concise updates on new lighting systems, metrics, applications, calculation tools, key industry issues and more. Participants will learn about LED solutions, evaluation of indoor and outdoor luminaire performance, advanced cost of light considerations, fluorescent systems update, and lighting control strategies.
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This conference caters to professionals who specify retail lighting and others who supervise the design or maintenance in department, grocery, specialty and mass merchandise stores. With presentations in full-scale settings and interactive sessions, attendees learn about effective retail lighting strategies that can save energy, improve lighting quality, reduce maintenance costs - and increase sales! Topics include: an update on the latest lighting systems for accent, display and perimeter lighting; trends in retail lighting applications; a primer on design strategies and detailing; and an update on energy legislation and tips to take advantage of current tax incentives.
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This course is designed for landscape architects, park and recreation officials, safety directors, facility managers and others involved in the specification or installation of exterior lighting. Application-oriented presentations feature lighting system selection criteria for facades, walkways, parking areas, landscape lighting, streetlighting, monuments, and signage. Key themes include: sustainable design including energy conservation, control of light pollution & maintainability; and lighting for safety and security.
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This conference provides practical lighting recommendations for professionals who are responsible for the lighting in museums and art galleries. Through lectures and workshops, lighting techniques and guidelines are presented for the most common museum lighting applications, with special emphasis on conservation issues. Featured topics include: LED Solutions for museum applications, and day-lighting design and control.
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Lighting Courses |
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Designed for newcomers to the lighting industry, this course provides basic product and application training for commercial and industrial lighting. This program contains lectures and full-scale lighting demonstrations that create an interesting, fast-paced, comprehensive lighting course. Topics include: lighting terminology; lighting measurements and color; an overview of major light source families and systems; and application modules for retail, office, industrial and outdoor lighting.
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Facility managers and engineers, specialists for energy services companies, and others who are involved with the specification and implementation of energy-saving strategies will benefit from this conference. Lighting retrofits provide some of the easiest, most direct ways to reduce energy consumption. In addition, energy legislation is obsoleting a variety of incandescent, halogen, fluorescent and HID products over the next few years. Learn about these products and the best retrofit solutions for them. Tools for analyzing and cost-justifying lighting retrofit projects are also demonstrated.
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This conference is designed for facility managers, maintenance supervisors and other professionals who are involved in the specification and maintenance of lighting systems in healthcare environments. The content features energy and maintenance cost reduction strategies, and identifies high quality lighting design criteria for public spaces, patient rooms and specialized medical treatment areas. Lighting designs and products that help improve patient outcomes and reduce error rates are introduced. Topics include: the latest developments in lighting equipment and controls, a primer on economic cost analysis, and a research update on light and health.
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This course is directed towards hotel owners and operators, this conference discusses lighting design and room air-conditioning strategies with a special emphasis on meeting the key needs of guest comfort and financial performance through energy reduction strategies. Sessions include: industry trends, outdoor lighting for safety and security, national energy rebates and tax incentives, and lighting solutions for guest rooms, meeting rooms and common areas.
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Electrical Courses |
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This course covers instruction on the AF-6 AC variable frequency drives. The course material and exercises provide specific product information that detail AF-6 product features, their areas of application, auxiliary equipment used in an installation, communications, and issues that have to be considered for successful operation. Who Should Attend: Distributor equipment specialists and end users who specify and maintain HVAC, fan-pump installations and processes that use adjustable speed equipment.
Prerequisite: Mechanical or electrical knowledge, as well as process experience.
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A 3-day course designed to teach not only about GE control products but application of these products. This course will involve lab work where the student will wire several control circuits. The class instructor will cover both NEMA and IEC products including, but not limited to, Pushbuttons, Starters, ASTAT Solid State Starters and time will be spent on Drives.
Prerequisites for this course are the Controls eLearning courses.
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This is an intermediate-level course for inside and outside Industrial Solutions sales personnel who already sell component products (GE & distributors). The course covers circuit breakers, controls, dry-type transformers, modular metering, capacitors, and panelboards. It focuses on small project take-offs and pricing, with hands-on practice with SpeediWin software and real product samples.
Prerequisites: 1) At least 3 months experience in electrical component sales, 2) At least 2 hours experience using Speedi software to quote small jobs.
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This is an intermediate-level course for inside and outside GE Learning Central sales personnel who already quote panelboard jobs using Speedi software (distributors and GE). The course covers switchboards, motor control centers, busway, pad-mounted transformers, and hands-on practice with SpeediWin software (including MCCs) and real equipment samples.
Prerequisites: 1) Completion of Industrial Solutions 101 or Ability to handle panel board quotes through 1200A on Speedi without assistance.
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This is an intermediate-level course for inside and outside Industrial Solutions sales personnel who have already attended a 2- or 3-day intermediate-level equipment course (distributors and GE). This course features: training on take-off and pricing for more complex switchboards, ATS, and motor control centers; includes design and build concepts and control schematic take-offs with emphasis on electrical distribution design and theory.
Prerequisites: 1) Successful Completion of intermediate level Equipment course or Industrial Solutions 102, 2) Completely self-sufficient in use of Speedi-Win. Complete the following courses: Standard Drives (Sales eDRV201), POPP (Sales ePOPP201). For GE Industrial Systems employees, these courses can be accessed via: http://mylearning.ge.com
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Continuing Education Program (CEP)
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The most important long-term benefit of the single-line diagram is coordination of the electrical system. Coordination is the sequenced operation of the electrical protective devices so that the device nearest to the fault operates to clear the fault, and no other devices operate. This course examines how to properly design a 1-line and gives the engineer helpful suggestions to give the diagram better coordination.
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This course takes an in-depth look at how to properly specify a motor for VFD use with any brand of VFD. Harmonic mitigation methods are examined to describe how to connect VFDs to a power line and how they change the power line. The class will examine how harmonics affect the specifying of AC motors with AFD. It will use practical applications to demonstrate alternatives for harmonic mitigation.
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This course gives a basic introduction to how an adjustable frequency drive works. The course is divided into two sections. The first section that covers AC drives examines the technology and the different applications to use the drives. The second section concentrates on AC motor basics. This section examines the terminology and applications of AC Motors.
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This course gives an introduction to the concept of series ratings as applied to low voltage equipment (specifically panel boards, switchboards, circuit breakers, and fuses). The material will review the fundamentals of selectivity as it relates to fully-rated devices, fully-rated equipment, series-rated devices, series-rated equipment, and current limiting products.
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This basic course covers the commonly used methods of ground fault protection on low voltage systems (600VAC and below).
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This class will help you understand circuit breaker protection fundamentals, basic time current curves and NEMA factory testing. You will cover specific examples of NETA/NEMA field testing.
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This course will take you through the 5 parts of the Florida Building code Section 13. You will cover the important information pertinent for electrical inspections under Section 13. The scope of the training session will cover administration and enforcement, definitions, referenced standards and commercial and residential construction.
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Harmonic mitigation methods are examined to describe how to connect VFDs to a power line and how they change the power line. The class will examine how harmonics affect the specifying of AC motors with AFD. It will use practical applications to demonstrate alternatives for harmonic mitigation.
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This course will compare and contrast the different methods of electric motors driving pumps. It will review the four methods of pump control and see the proper application for each. The class highlights the pros and cons of the different technologies and presents potential application issues.
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We use power management to improve facility uptime, manage energy costs, analyze power quality, and interface better with related systems. Its all about proactively managing a facility. This first course on PMCS focuses on the hardware (specific device choices).
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Many consultants need to know the difference between switchgear and switchboards and understand how each one works. There is also a lot of confusion on the differences between ANSI, UL, and NEMA and how they relate to the product. This class helps to clarify the confusion and helps the consultants understand space considerations, this making specifying the various products much easier.
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The main goal of selective coordination is to isolate the faulted portion of the electrical circuit quickly while maintaining power to the remainder of the electrical system. This course will outline the articles within the National Electric Code dealing with selective coordination and what you need to be aware of regarding your design choices and impact of selectivity.
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LEU |
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The ballast is a device for starting and regulating the current in fluorescent and HID lamps. Without the help of the proper ballast, your lamp will not work as effectively as it could or possibly not even at all. The ballast provides a high voltage to establish an arc between electrodes, regulates current to stabilize light output, and supplies correct voltage for lamp operation and compensates for voltage variations.
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Selecting the right lamp and ballasts is just one part of controlling energy costs. Another way to control your total lighting costs is through lighting control systems and Day lighting. This course will cover some of your options.
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The class discusses the two most commonly used building codes affecting the lighting industry today. It will review the lighting requirements of each code and then look at the federal tax incentives available for exceeding the 90.1-2001 standard. The requirements for writing a proper tax certification letter will also be highlighted.
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Learn the Pro and Cons of installing a fluorescent dimming system. Incandescent dimming can provide energy savings and longer life to the lamps. Fluorescent dimming systems are different. Learn how to evaluate and properly apply fluorescent dimming.
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Temperatures inside a facility can do more than make individuals inside the area uncomfortable. The life of a lamp, life of a ballast, and the lumen output are all effected by temperature.
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The hottest trend in lighting today is replacing HID fixtures with fluorescent highbay fixtures. Debate centers on the use of T8 lamps vs- T5 lamps, and Instant Start ballast - vs- Programmed Rapid Start Ballast. With less than a two- year payback, this trend seems like a sure winner. But wait, HID fights back. What is in store next year with HID electronic ballast and CMH lamps? This workshop will explore the variety of options and how to evaluate.
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Digital Energy |
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This course examines Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) configurations, applications, and controls. Power panel composition, short circuit considerations, transfer schemes, sequence of operation, 3-pole vs. 4-pole switching, and Bypass/Isolation.
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This course examines Transient Voltage Surge Suppression (TVSS), applicable industry standards, categories and exposure levels defined. Definitions of kA rating, kAIC rating, modes of protection, MOV, clamping level, maximum continuous operating voltage will be explored.
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This course examines applications and use of industrial grade Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS). Online Double Conversion, battery management, maintenance bypass, static switch and space vector modulation will be explored.
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This course examines applications and use of Paralleling Switchgear (PSG). Multiple generator and generator emergency bus paralleling to utility grid applications will be explored. Load-add, load-shed, peak shave, generator optimizing and other critical PSG controls will be covered.
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This course examines applications and use of sizing emergency generator sets for use with industrial grade Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS). Partial loading, rectifier power, reflective input harmonics, sub-transient reactance, and harmonic filters will be explored.
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This course examines construction types, and applications of Paralleling Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS). Multiple UPS paralleling for redundancy (N + 1) and capacity shall be explored. Communication bus, decentralized bypass, load sharing, system architecture, and FAQ's will be covered.
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This course examines the UL1449 2nd Edition, February 2007 revision for commercial/industrial grade Transient Voltage Surge Suppression (TVSS). What is changing and why will be explored.
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This course examines applications and use of remote monitoring and control for Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS). Modbus addressing, alarm set points, trending reports, real time data acquisition, and control functions will be explored.
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This course examines applications and use of commercial/industrial grade Transient Voltage Surge Suppression (TVSS). Facility exposure levels, cascading for system wide application, wall mounted installation, integrated installation, and box extension installation will be explored.
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Large data centers primarily use double conversion UPS to protect the critical loads. This double conversion technology consumes 5% to 10% of the power provided to the data center loads. This energy loss is converted to heat that requires additional energy for cooling.
With the increasing cost of electrical power in data centers and other mission critical facilities, this presentation will provide attendees with recommendations on design, application and operating techniques to optimize the energy efficiency of double conversion UPS in large data centers and other mission critical facilities.
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This course identifies Data Center and Mission Critical facility single points of failure. Elimination of these single point of failure will be address by using a suite of electrical power quality equipment. Business cost savings and downtime mitigation will be described.
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This course examines how UPS reliability is tied to its maintenance, which has become an important topic for most facility managers. Since the UPS has no moving parts, the overwhelming majority of failures are not due to wear and tear. As a result, good diagnostic tools and a thorough testing and maintenance program for UPS electronics are essential. For the UPS ancillary equipment, such as the batteries and/or generators, wear and tear is a factor managers must consider.
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eLearning
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