12 VOLT MARINE ELECTRICS COURSE AIMS:
The 12 Volt Marine Electrics Course will help you understand how to look after your on-board electric systems. It encourages you to solve problems that occur both in port and at sea. This course may help you avoid costly call outs. This course is suitable for sailors, powerboaters, narrow boat owners and super-yacht engineers and helps skippers and owners become more self-reliant. The course has also been popular with caravan and camper conversion enthusiasts and starts from the very basics before developing.
12 VOLT MARINE ELECTRICS COURSE OVERVIEW
This is one of our Chieftain Training home grown courses. We are unaware of another similar course being run anywhere. The course is aimed at sea going yacht and powerboat owners/skippers and inland waterway narrowboat owners alike. It is a very “hand’s on” course.
WHERE IS THE 12 & 24 VOLT MARINE ELECTRICS COURSE RUN?
- Chieftain Training, Hamble (fortnightly)
- Chieftain Training, London (monthly)
- Bespoke course for your group at your location (on demand)
HOW LONG IS THE 12 VOLT MARINE ELECTRICS COURSE?
2 days – 09:15 to 16:15
You can also cover this course content as part of our longer Yacht Maintenance Week
PRE REQUISITES
Basic knowledge of sailing yachts and/or powerboats OR caravans/camper vans. Typically this means having attended the Powerboat Level 2 or Day Skipper practical or higher level course or having similar experience.
WHAT IS COVERED ON THE 12 VOLT MARINE ELECTRICS COURSE?
- Electrics
- Overview of AC & DC
- Voltage and Current
- The DC circuit
- The 12 Volt Circuit
- Lights, switches and fuses
- Resistance and power
- Calculating the correct fuse
- Selecting the correct cable/wire
- Relays and switches
- Intro to circuit diagrams
- 12 Volt DC Fault Finding & Troubleshooting
- Using a multi meter
- Testing continuity and circuit
- Circuit faults
- Charging faults
- Engine battery systems and power management
- 12 Volt Connections
- Crimping
- Heat sealing
- Soldering
- 12V tools
- Connecting batteries
- Following a 12 Volt circuit diagram
- 12 Volt Batteries
- Battery types and choice of battery
- Charging (shore power, alternator, wind and solar)
- Battery management
- The Vessel
- Bonding
- Galvanic protection
An ongoing theme of this course is practical fault finding. During the course you will make use of our training boards/simulators which include night lights, instruments, VHF sets, kill cords, etc. and you will work through common problems that occur with 12 volt marine installations.
INCLUDED
- 2 days of training & use of simulators / training boards / tools
- 12 Volt Marine Electrics Certificate (PDF sent by email following the course)
- Access to the Chieftain Training Essential Electrics eBook
- Off street Private parking (at our Hamble Training Centre but not at London)
- Tea & Coffee
NOT INCLUDED
- Meals and accommodation
- Parking (at our London Centre)
12 VOLT MARINE ELECTRICS COURSE RATIO:
We run this course with a maximum of 8 students. The class size however is typically 4-6 students and we will run the course with as few as 2 students.