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There are many new technologies and innovations that can revolutionize the residential market. This course provides executives and key decision makers for single family and multi-family builders and developers the opportunity to explore new solutions for high quality and energy-efficient lighting, electrical distribution, appliances, security systems and more. Tools and resources that can help improve builders' and developers' businesses are reviewed, including: supply chain solutions that can reduce costs and boost profits, trends in green building initiatives, and marketing strategies that can help sell homes and condos faster.
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There are many new technologies and innovations that can revolutionize the residential market. This course provides executives and key decision makers for single family and multi-family builders and developers the opportunity to explore new solutions for high quality and energy-efficient lighting, electrical distribution, appliances, security systems and more. Tools and resources that can help improve builders' and developers' businesses are reviewed, including: supply chain solutions that can reduce costs and boost profits, trends in green building initiatives, and marketing strategies that can help sell homes and condos faster.
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This course provides electrical and lighting solutions for decision makers in industrial businesses. Plant managers, facility managers and engineers, project managers, consulting engineers, and industrial contractors will receive in-depth updates on some of the latest solutions that provide quantifiable benefits in reliability, safety, and overall operating efficiencies. The electrical content will include an overview of basic electrical considerations in the industrial environment. With full-scale product displays, hands-on demonstrations and field simulations, an update on some of the latest solutions for switchgear, motor control centers, metering, surge protection, uninterruptible power supplies and more will be presented. Lighting solutions for improved energy efficiency, maintenance, employee productivity, and safety and security will be demonstrated and discussed. Additional topics include: reliability services, maintenance programs, motors and drives, and power management systems.
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This unique two-part seminar is designed for contractors who want updates on the latest in lighting, electrical distribution equipment, or both! Principal owners, project managers and estimators will learn about new products and applications that cannot only provide added value for their customers, but also improve their own profitability.
For lighting, the content includes the latest trends in lighting for interior and exterior applications that provide energy savings, improved maintenance, better lighting quality, and more "value add" options for customers. In addition, lighting system solutions that can reduce construction costs and decrease installation time will be discussed.
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This unique two-part seminar is designed for contractors who want updates on the latest in lighting, electrical distribution equipment, or both! Principal owners, project managers and estimators will learn about new products and applications that cannot only provide added value for their customers, but also improve their own profitability.
For electrical distribution equipment, the content includes a review of general applications of basic equipment: voltage types, interruption ratings, enclosure types, bus types, fuses vs. breakers, lighting panels vs. power panels, codes standardization, and more. With full-scale interactive product displays, advances in a variety of products, including motor control centers, panelboards, metering, switchgear, surge protectors, uninterruptible power supplies, and busway are demonstrated. Safety, reliability, flexibility, smaller footprint, and reduced installation costs are some of the key value propositions.
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This unique two-part seminar is designed for contractors who want updates on the latest in lighting, electrical distribution equipment, or both! Principal owners, project managers and estimators will learn about new products and applications that cannot only provide added value for their customers, but also improve their own profitability.
For electrical distribution equipment, the content includes a review of general applications of basic equipment: voltage types, interruption ratings, enclosure types, bus types, fuses vs. breakers, lighting panels vs. power panels, codes standardization, and more. With full-scale interactive product displays, advances in a variety of products, including motor control centers, panelboards, metering, switchgear, surge protectors, uninterruptible power supplies, and busway are demonstrated. Safety, reliability, flexibility, smaller footprint, and reduced installation costs are some of the key value propositions.
For lighting, the content includes the latest trends in lighting for interior and exterior applications that provide energy savings, improved maintenance, better lighting quality, and more "value add" options for customers. In addition, lighting system solutions that can reduce construction costs and decrease installation time will be discussed.
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Aligning with the book "The Dollarization Discipline," this course, ideal for personnel in all sales functions, focuses on the customer! Key elements include: using the customer's numbers to form the "dollarized" story, creating a customer value file, and developing strategies to call on all levels of the customer's organization. Individual and group activities are used to develop solutions and practice delivery techniques.
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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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This course is designed to provide and compare solutions for a variety of lighting retrofit projects. Through lecture and hands-on workshops, this course focuses on the evaluation of simple lamp retrofits, lamp and ballast substitutions, luminaire retrofit kits, energy-saving system add-on devices and controls. 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 course.
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This course 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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Staying ahead of the competition in today's fast-paced world means keeping up-to-date on the latest technologies and trends in the lighting industry. This course is designed to equip fixture agents with basic industry and product information. Content emphasizes hands-on product evaluation and group workshops. Topics include: lighting system product updates, energy codes and the implications for customer solutions, application "rules of thumb", and design/calculation tools to promote more effective selling.
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Electrical Courses |
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This course is designed for those who have little or no experience with electrical distribution and controls, and want to learn some of the fundamentals. It will include basic electricity and terminology, an overview of a broad range of electrical equipment and where it is used, an introduction to safety codes and standards, and a look at trends in electrical products that promote safety, reliability and energy efficiency. The course features full-scale product displays and demonstrations.
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This course, ideal for electrical engineers with 1 to 5 years experience, will explore solutions that: provide reliable electrical systems, save construction time, better utilize valuable building space, reduce installation and life cycle costs, and improve safety. Topics include: service entrance and substation equipment, medium voltage protection and motor control, lighting control panels, distribution feeders and submetering. The course will include hands-on demonstration of equipment.
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This course is designed for distributor sales reps, and inside/outside construction and industrial sales personnel who have already attended an intermediate level equipment course. The content includes: an overview of where and how low and medium voltage switchgear is used, where these products fit on a one-line diagram, and how they provide solutions for the equipment needs of our customers. Specific equipment to be covered includes: AKD-10, Entellisys™, POWER/VAC, Limitamp, LIS, ATS, PSG, and UPS.
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This is an intermediate-level course for inside and outside C&I 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 C&I 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 C&I 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 C&I 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 C&I 102, 2) Completely self-sufficient in use of Speedi-Win.
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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This basic course covers the commonly used methods of ground fault protection on low voltage systems (600VAC and below).
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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We use power management to improve facility uptime, manage energy costs, analyze power quality, and interface better with related systems. It’s all about proactively managing a facility. This first course on PMCS focuses on the hardware (specific device choices).
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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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.
To request this course be taught at your company location, email learningcentral.cep@ge.com
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