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Electrician qualification preparation — Non-construction (CÉ / Licence C)
A preparation path for non-construction electricians, focused on industrial electrical systems. Examples connect distribution, protection, equipment and controls with the applicable Code rules and tables.
Industrial Electrician Training — Non-construction Licence C
- Low-voltage distribution and single- or three-phase systems
- Conductors, protection, grounding and measurement
- Lighting, heating, motors, transformers and drives
- Controls, regulation, standby power and diagnosis
This course prepares for the non-construction electricity qualification certificate (CÉ), commonly called Licence C. Calculations support measurement interpretation, replacement checks and compliance after modification. Maintenance, repair and return-to-service cases accompany the shared technical Code foundation.
Course programme
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Electrical fundamentals and calculations
Objectives
- Identify the requested quantity and convert its units.
- Select a circuit relationship with explicit assumptions.
- Distinguish RMS and peak quantities, power and energy.
- Interpret a result without treating it as a Code sizing requirement.
Chapter sections
- 1.1 — Predict a result with an electrical model
- 1.2 — Quantities, units and resistive networks
- 1.3 — Interpret RMS and peak values
- 1.4 — Relate power to single-/three-phase systems
- 1.5 — Relate circuit laws, resistance and initial motor concepts
- 1.6 — Move from power to energy and cost
- 1.7 — Select the quantity and measuring instrument
- 1.8 — Practice and justification
Finding and applying Code requirements
Objectives
- Describe a situation using Code terminology and quantities.
- Find a rule and check its conditions, notes and cross-references.
- Verify exactly which provision Québec modifies.
- Justify an answer using the table’s correct input quantity.
Chapter sections
- 2.1 — Define the search and the answer to justify
- 2.2 — Structure, precedence and Québec amendments
- 2.3 — Definitions, requirements and exceptions
- 2.4 — Searches, tables and appendices
- 2.5 — Prepare efficient examination searches
- 2.6 — Practice and justification
Safety, lockout and measurements
Objectives
- Identify sources and energies affecting the work boundary.
- Distinguish stopping, isolation and procedure-based verification.
- Check the complete measuring assembly and interpret the reading.
- Recognize confined-space and work-at-height limits.
Chapter sections
- 3.1 — Define the work boundary and identify energy
- 3.2 — Control energy before intervention
- 3.3 — Select instruments and interpret readings
- 3.4 — Prepare a confined-space intervention
- 3.5 — Choose safe access for work at height
- 3.6 — Practice and justification
Low-voltage distribution — 31 to 750 V
Objectives
- Distinguish feeders and branch circuits from single-line protection boundaries.
- Select voltages and conductor functions matching equipment.
- Calculate current, then check load, conductors, protection and panel separately.
- Justify interrupting-capacity and access findings without overextending the conclusion.
Chapter sections
- 4.1 — Trace the supply on a single-line diagram
- 4.2 — Select the correct voltage for each load
- 4.3 — Distinguish neutral and equipment bonding
- 4.4 — Check component limits before adding a load
- 4.5 — Calculate current and interpret phase balance
- 4.6 — Maintain access and identify outgoing circuits
- 4.7 — Resolve a workshop case before return to service
- 4.8 — Practice and justification
Conductors and wiring methods
Objectives
- Check insulation use, installation and terminals before selecting ampacity.
- Count conductors by function and apply relevant corrections.
- Calculate fill, box volume and pulling space separately.
- Select cords, connectors and enclosures for the industrial circuit and environment.
- Justify connection preparation, compatibility and tightening.
Chapter sections
- 5.1 — Check the circuit before selecting wiring
- 5.2 — Select the conductor and temperature column
- 5.3 — Count conductors and correct ampacity
- 5.4 — Check continuous loading and the neutral
- 5.5 — Check installation and mechanical protection
- 5.6 — Calculate occupied raceway space
- 5.7 — Count box contents and select usable volume
- 5.8 — Provide pulling space and bends
- 5.9 — Prepare terminals and control tightening
- 5.10 — Select and size a flexible cord
- 5.11 — Recognize portable power cable calculations
- 5.12 — Identify industrial plugs and receptacles
- 5.13 — Distinguish moisture, corrosion and explosive atmospheres
- 5.14 — Workshop: check the cable, pull box and tightening
- 5.15 — Practice and justification
Disconnecting means and protection
Objectives
- Distinguish overload, short circuit, disconnection and interrupting capacity.
- Compare device characteristics with the system and available fault current.
- Check every condition for a lower-ampacity conductor segment.
- Apply D3 within scope using the appropriate current and route length.
Chapter sections
- 6.1 — Match each device to its function
- 6.2 — Select current, voltage and interrupting ratings
- 6.3 — Check tap conductors and protective devices
- 6.4 — Calculate voltage drop using Table D3
- 6.5 — Combine ampacity and voltage-drop checks
- 6.6 — Practice and justification
Grounding and bonding
Objectives
- Trace normal current and fault return to the source.
- Distinguish neutral, grounding conductor and bonding conductor.
- Select table inputs and electrode-specific conditions.
- Check connections, mechanical protection and limits of the finding.
Chapter sections
- 7.1 — Identify each connection’s function
- 7.2 — Understand paths and bonding connections
- 7.3 — Size and install grounding
- 7.4 — Check connections and particular cases
- 7.5 — Select the inputs before sizing a connection
- 7.6 — Practice and justification
Lighting and luminaires
Objectives
- Calculate load from complete input current, including auxiliaries.
- Select the applicable 30-104 case without confusing protection ceilings and permitted load.
- Check support, disconnection, compatibility and clearances.
- Justify distribution, control and emergency-light wiring from the actual case.
Chapter sections
- 8.1 — Select the relevant luminaire data
- 8.2 — Calculate and protect lighting circuits
- 8.3 — Install, disconnect and replace luminaires
- 8.4 — Identify a compatible fluorescent system
- 8.5 — Store and recover used lamps
- 8.6 — Distribute several luminaires among circuits
- 8.7 — Control lighting from two locations
- 8.8 — Size remote emergency-lamp wiring
- 8.9 — Practice and justification
Transformers
Objectives
- Identify apparent power, voltages and transformer connection.
- Calculate line currents while distinguishing line-to-line and line-to-neutral voltage.
- Select conductor and protection methods suited to the equipment type.
- Check grounding, location and limits of special configurations.
Chapter sections
- 9.1 — Organize checks on both sides
- 9.2 — Understand connections and currents
- 9.3 — Size conductors and protection
- 9.4 — Install, verify and ground
- 9.5 — Open delta: available capacity and limits
- 9.6 — Terminals, voltages and parallel compatibility
- 9.7 — Practice and justification
DC machines
Objectives
- Identify armature, field and supplies on the machine diagram.
- Calculate current or power for the genuinely common boundary.
- Distinguish the running model from starting and protection conditions.
- Justify a fault hypothesis and return-to-service checks.
Chapter sections
- 10.1 — Identify the machine, circuits and sources
- 10.2 — Identify the machine and read its nameplate
- 10.3 — Recognize the excitation arrangement
- 10.4 — Calculate power, losses and speed
- 10.5 — Size conductors for the stated duty
- 10.6 — Separate circuit protection from motor protection
- 10.7 — Interpret rotation and speed control
- 10.8 — Organize diagnosis and return to service
- 10.9 — Practice and justification
AC motors
Objectives
- Choose relevant current, duty and simultaneity before calculating.
- Size individual and common conductors under installation conditions.
- Check branch protection, feeder protection and overload separately.
- Interpret starting diagrams, marking and readings before return to operation.
Chapter sections
- 11.1 — Separate the motor-circuit checks
- 11.2 — Read nameplates and size conductors
- 11.3 — Select protection, feeder and overload
- 11.4 — Check controls, ambient conditions and particular cases
- 11.5 — Use motor tables without replacing nameplate data
- 11.6 — Single-phase motor: dual voltage and reversal
- 11.7 — Star-delta starting: verify the motor and protection
- 11.8 — Enclosure, insulation class and entry leads
- 11.9 — Periodic duty: select the correct time rating
- 11.10 — Workshop: three motors, three branches and one feeder
- 11.11 — Diagnosis: compare nameplate and measurements
- 11.12 — Practice and justification
Controls and electrical diagrams
Objectives
- Read resting contacts, coils and seal-in on a diagram.
- Distinguish physical contact, logic bit, PLC input and output.
- Classify a control circuit and verify installation conditions.
- Justify a diagnosis from an expected sequence and consistent evidence.
Chapter sections
- 12.1 — Trace an industrial control circuit
- 12.2 — Read contacts and seal-in
- 12.3 — Classify the source and install the circuit
- 12.4 — Read logic and confirm the fault
- 12.5 — Read symbols and timing
- 12.6 — Classify PLC inputs and outputs
- 12.7 — Recognize electronic components
- 12.8 — Practice and justification
Drive systems
Objectives
- Distinguish direct starting, soft starting and speed control.
- Identify supply input, motor output and control using their own data.
- Calculate frequency or speed from the stated model and configured range.
- Check protection, stored energy and diagnostic limits.
Chapter sections
- 13.1 — Select and check a drive system
- 13.2 — Choose the starting method
- 13.3 — Separate input, output and control
- 13.4 — Preserve the specified protection
- 13.5 — Calculate frequency, speed and reference
- 13.6 — Check electrical isolation
- 13.7 — Connect the fault to the evidence
- 13.8 — Practice and justification
Electric heating and controllers
Objectives
- Identify electrical data and heater family before branch-circuit method selection.
- Check protection, conductors, control and disconnection separately.
- Convert a signal using its configured zero and span.
- Justify a diagnosis through the sensor–controller–actuator chain and supplied evidence.
Chapter sections
- 14.1 — Identify heating and its control
- 14.2 — Calculate load and branch requirements
- 14.3 — Control and disconnect heating
- 14.4 — Convert an analogue signal
- 14.5 — Check the complete control loop
- 14.6 — Match the temperature sensor to its input
- 14.7 — Interpret voltages in a faulty heater
- 14.8 — Practice and justification
Emergency and standby supplies
Objectives
- Distinguish emergency and standby supply from the functions served.
- Identify sources, transfer and backfeed risks.
- Calculate power or runtime under the explicitly stated model.
- Check battery chemistry and system-test evidence.
Chapter sections
- 15.1 — Distinguish emergency and standby supply
- 15.2 — Identify sources and transfer
- 15.3 — Calculate power and runtime
- 15.4 — Check tests and records
- 15.5 — Maintain batteries according to their chemistry
- 15.6 — Trace energy paths through a UPS
- 15.7 — Practice and justification
Integrated diagnosis and return to service
Objectives
- Define symptom, boundary, sources and expected-operation criteria.
- Distinguish fact, hypothesis and confirmed cause from supplied records.
- Compare replacement equipment with actual characteristics and requirements.
- Document correction, tests, limitations and responsibilities.
Chapter sections
- 16.1 — Organize a complete diagnosis
- 16.2 — Define the problem and sources
- 16.3 — Connect measurements to a conclusion
- 16.4 — Check the motor and its protection
- 16.5 — Check transformer and heating
- 16.6 — Preserve isolation and bonding
- 16.7 — Verify return to service
- 16.8 — Check approval and the roles of those involved
- 16.9 — Coordinate sealed access and remove a circuit from service
- 16.10 — Practice and justification
Code électrique du Québec 2018 / C22.10-18 / C22.1-15
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This private training is developed and offered by Rasvolt Énergie Inc. It is intended to improve your preparation and does not guarantee that you will pass an examination. It is not official training or an official examination. Rasvolt Énergie Inc. is not affiliated with any government, CMEQ, CCQ, the Régie du bâtiment du Québec, the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, or any qualification or examination body. Names and abbreviations are used only to identify the topics and examinations being prepared for.