Certificate III in Electrotechnology Entertainment and Servicing

Unit of Competency Details

EEWP402C – Work performance 402 - (40 hours)

Trainees are required to maintain a log book of work place learning and training. The log will be maintained by the trainee and entries made after consultation with workplace trainer or supervisor and registered training authority assessor.

EEWP206C – Work performance 206 - (40 hours)

Trainees are required to maintain a log book of work place learning and training. The log will be maintained by the trainee and entries made after consultation with workplace trainer or supervisor and registered training authority assessor.

EEWP106C – Work performance 106 - (20 hours)

Trainees are required to maintain a log book of work place learning and training. The log will be maintained by the trainee and entries made after consultation with workplace trainer or supervisor and registered training authority assessor.

EEWP301C – Work performance 301 - (40 hours)

Trainees are required to maintain a log book of work place learning and training. The log will be maintained by the trainee and entries made after consultation with workplace trainer or supervisor and registered training authority assessor.

EEWP009C – Work performance 009 - (20 hours)

Trainees are required to maintain a log book of work place learning and training. The log will be maintained by the trainee and entries made after consultation with workplace trainer or supervisor and registered training authority assessor.

EEWP105c – Work performance 105 - (20 hours)

Trainees are required to maintain a log book of work place learning and training. The log will be maintained by the trainee and entries made after consultation with workplace trainer or supervisor and registered training authority assessor.

EEWP209c – Work performance 209 - (20 hours)

Trainees are required to maintain a log book of work place learning and training. The log will be maintained by the trainee and entries made after consultation with workplace trainer or supervisor and registered training authority assessor.

EE117 – Digital basics - (80 hours)

This subject provides knowledge and skills relating to the fundamental concepts digital logic, devices and circuits. Topics include:
- Basic logic
- Gates
- DeMorgan's theorem
- Number systems & codes
- Combinational logic
- Encoders & decoders
- Display devices]
- Multiplexers / demultiplexers
- Flipflops, counters & registers
- Timers

EE128 – Electronic workshop practices - (100 hours)

This subject provides knowledge and skills relating to occupational health and safety (O.H.&S) in an electrical/electronics environment. This module provides the basic knowledge and skills relating to hand soldering and assembly techniques used in electronics and computer systems. Topics include:
- Occupational health and safety act
- Personal safety
- Workplace and workshop hazards
- Working with electrically operated tools and equipment
- Rescue from a live electrical situation
- Emergency first aid / resuscitation
- Quality concepts
- Workshop facilities and environment preparation of printed circuit boards
- Safe working practices and hazards in soldering workshop environment
- Hazard reporting
- Hand soldering techniques
- De-soldering techniques
- Component and connector handling and preparation for PCB insertion
- Point to point wiring techniques
- Marking out
- Basic hand tools and uses in electronic workshop
- Assembly and fastening techniques
- Printed circuit boards.

EE130 – Analog systems 1 - (80 hours)

This subject provides the basic knowledge and skills relating to the workings of a linear DC power supplies and small signal amplifiers. Topics include:
- Power supply application
_ Ideal and practical diodes
_ Capacitive filtering
_ Zener diode application
_ 3 terminal regulators
_ Power supply faults and repair
_ Small signal amplifier use
_ Ideal small signal amplifier characteristics
_ Input and output resistances,current gain, voltage gain
_ Practical amplifier characteristics
_ Voltage gain measurement
_ Amplifier selection given system requirements and loads
_ Bandwidth measurement for ideal and operational amplifiers
_ Input/output impedances; open loop gain
_ Gain-bandwidth product
_ Ideal and practical comparator
_ Inverting/non-inverting amplifiers, measurements

EE131 – Analog systems 2 - (80 hours)

This subject provides knowledge and skills relating to analog electronics. The content is mainly concerned with the fundamentals of operational amplifiers and discrete component amplifiers. Topics include:
- Characteristics of the ideal op amp
- Inverting/non-inverting op-amps
- Voltage followers
- Non idealities effects on op-amp performance
- Effects of input bias current, offset current and offset voltage
- Slew rate
- Gain-bandwidth product
- Noise calculations and measurements in op-amps.
- Frequency compensation, gain and phase margin, compensation
- Determination of AC parameters - single stage, small signal BJT/FET amps
- High and low frequency gain and phase response in amplifiers
- Multistage amplifiers. Coupling techniques and effects on system
parameters.

EE138 – Audio technology - (80 hours)

This subject develops knowledge and skills relating to audio circuits. It covers the major sub-systems of an audio product. Topics includes:
- Power amplifiers
- Control and preamplifiers
- Automotive audio applications
- Meter circuits
- Mixers and equalisers
- Dolby Pro-Logic systems
- Performance tests
- System fault finding.

EE141 – RF technologies - (80 hours)

This subject provides the basic knowledge and skills relating to the principles of analog RF communications. Topics include:
- Basic communication systems block diagram
- Radio wave as a TEM wave: radio wave frequency band identification, frequency, wavelength, velocity of propagation;
- Transmission modes: metal cable, wave guide, optical fibre, radio wave
paths
- Noise: definition, categories, effects on communication systems.
- Communication signals in time and frequency domain.
- Fourier analysis of periodic complex waveforms, base-band signals, modulation signals
- Modulation techniques / Demodulation
- Oscillators and Tuned Circuits
- Filters
- Frequency Multiplier Concepts
- Mixer Circuit Concepts
- Time and frequency division multiplexing
- Super-heterodyne receivers: concepts and characteristics
- Transmitters: AM, single side band, FM
- Characteristics of components at RF

EE142 – Television 1 - (60 hours)

This subject provides knowledge and skills relating to the fundamental principles of television. Topics include:
- Safety
- The Australian television system
- The monochrome TV receiver
- The PAL encoder/decoder
- Picture tubes
- RGB and colour difference drive systems
- TV sound
- Test equipment relevant to television servicing
- Fault finding to block level in PAL systems
- Fault finding to stage level in MTV and CTV.

EE145 – Electrical fundamentals 1 - (60 hours)

Underpinning knowledge of DC circuits and components. This subject also develops practical skills of wiring, testing and making DC measurements on simple series and parallel circuits. Topics include:
- Electrical energy sources
- Charge, current and circuit
- Resistance
- Series & parallel circuits
- Capitors and inductors
- Energy growth and decay
- Charge and discharge

EE146 – Electrical fundamentals 2 - (60 hours)

This subject provides knowledge and skills relating to basic concepts of alternating current (AC) electricity. Topics include:
- Alternating current and voltage
- Frequency, period, peak to peak, RMS
- Phase and phase difference
- CRO measurements of AC
- Capacitors and capacitance reactance
- Inductors and inductive reactance.
- Phasor representation of sinusoids
- Phase angle, lead and lag
- V and I relationship for capacitors and inductors
- V, I and phase angle for RC/RL series and RC/RL parallel circuits.
- Impedance and RLC circuits
- RLC series and RLC parallel circuits
- Series and parallel resonance
- Transformers.