Purpose of Seminar:

The purpose of this introductory course is to provide the student with a working knowledge of installation, interrogation, troubleshooting and elementary programming for DDC products.

Although this course was originally designed as a 5-day “Hands-on” training course, the curriculum can be tailored to meet your specific needs whether you require five days of training or two, want the full-blown “Hands-on” experience, or just a basic lecture introduction. Just let us know. We’ll customize it specifically for you.

Who should take this course?

This course is designed for anyone needing a fundamental understanding of Direct Digital Controls. Attendees come from a wide variety of industries, skill levels, company sizes, and job titles, so if you're not sure you'll fit in or will benefit from the class, don't worry - you will - as long as you want to learn about DDCs! People who will benefit from attending this seminar include….

All maintenance personnel in:

• Manufacturing Plants
• Commercial Buildings
• Hospitals
• Schools
• Government Buildings
• Research Facilities
• Shopping Centers
• Apartment Buildings

Including:

• All Building Maintenance Personnel
• All Plant & Facility Maintenance Technicians
• Building Engineers
• Building Managers & Superintendents
• Apprentice and Experienced HVACR Technicians
• Energy Management Personnel
• Multi-craft & Cross Training Personnel
• Mechanical Engineers
• Any person needing to know about DDCs

Course Outline / Agenda

INTRODUCTION

• - Terminology
• - Using Your Laptop Computer
• - Personal System Interface Software

DIRECT DIGITAL CONTROL EQUIPMENT

• - Networkers
• - Local Controllers
• - Equipment Specific Controllers
• - Variable Air Volume Controllers
• - Repeaters
• - Lightning Arrestors
• - Host Computers

INPUTS, OUTPUTS & ADDRESSING

COMMUNICATIONS & LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN) CONFIGURATIONS

EQUIPMENT SELECTION

• - Class Project

SYSTEM DESIGN

• - Class Project

SAMPLE PROGRAMMING

• - Class Project – Simple Loop System
• - Class Project – Multi Loop Air Handling System
• - Class Project – Alarming and Report Generation

DEBUGGING & TROUBLESHOOTING DDC EQUIPMENT & PROGRAMS

• - Debugging Programs
• - Troubleshooting Equipment

SUMMARY

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

All students attending our seminars receive a personalized Certificate of Completion and .8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) per day of training. Over 40,000 employers and government agencies who have sent their employees to our classes accept American Trainco CEUs for continuing education requirements. Our administration and record keeping practices meet or exceed the standards of ACE (American Council on Education) and we are able to provide transcripts of all classes attended and tests taken by individual students. Please contact us if our CEUs are not yet accepted by your authority. We will initiate an application to get the approval process started.