Electronic Wiring Skills

Course Content

• Safe working practices and procedures to be observed in an electronic assembly workshop
• Tools and equipment required for electronic wiring skills.
• Types of electronic constructions
• Wires, cables and connectors used in electronic assemblies.
• Circuit diagrams and wiring lists and diagrams.
• Solder and the soldering process
• Practise at: -
• Terminating, stripping, tinning, and identification of wire/cable ends, twisted pair formation and cable retention methods.
• Soldering to pin, hook, pierced, bifurcated and cup terminals,
• Fitting of protective sleeves to solder joints
• Basic component identification.
• Testing/checking completed assemblies - e.g. “ringing through”
• Solder joint inspection and testing techniques to achieve required quality standards.
• De-soldering techniques and rectification of faulty solder joints
• Crimp terminals and connections and insulation displacement connections.
• Handling static sensitive assemblies and components