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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine job requirements
   • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
2. Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
3. Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
4. Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
5. Assess generator/ alternator operation
   • Apply principles of magnetism, induced voltage and electromagnetism when assessing generator/alternator operation
6. Apply alternating and direct current generating principles, voltage/current regulation methods and types and action of diodes/condensers in generator/alternator operation to assess generator/alternator operation
7. Check charging system performance and record variances from system specifications
8. Test and rectify generators/ alternators
   • Dismantle and assemble generators/alternators to specifications
9. Determine charging faults to component level
10. Perform testing to determine shorts to ground, turn shorts and winding continuity
11. Test alternator/generator for normal and maximum output
12. Test voltage and/or current regulators and cut-outs and relays and adjust to specification
13. Determine condition of power/exciter diodes
14. Replace all faulty components according to manufacturers' recommendations
15. Ensure charging system is free of excessive voltage drops and connections are soldered, tightened and insulated

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Faulty components include one (1) or more of the following:	brush gear bearings diodes contacts relays

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