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From electronics manufacturing companies to academic institutions, the term “electrician’s pen” is their endearment to the soldering iron. Available in different wattages, the simple tool made of a sharp pointed end, a heating element and a wooden handle can repair even the biggest LCD screen televisions and even top-performing computers or smartphones.

However, fixing these items with a soldering iron require advanced electrician education because of their minuscule and geometrically dependent parts.

Beginner to intermediate electricians with or without trade experience yet could use a soldering iron could repair these common South African household items.

Malfunctioning Earphones

A standard-issue iPhone earbud, in-ear earphones or headphones often suffer from the headphone’s torn wires, which affect the signal from one or both channels. First-time electricians in the house need only a soldering iron, a pair of long-nose pliers, some electric tape, and a wire stripper to fix this small problem.

To find the troubled section of your earphone cable, bend the cable carefully, making an angle between your thumb and pointer finger. The audio jack is the common problem source for most headphones, but the problem stretches deeper into the length towards the earphones sometimes. When the audio from one or both earbuds drops out, you have found a winner.

Now, mark this area with tape then splice the cables in this area. Observe the inner shielded wire and the wires running along the shielding of the inner wire. Remove at least half the length of each section you cut the wire from and proceed to solder the inner wire to the inner wire of the other and the outer wire to its counterpart as well.

You can choose to wrap the two halves together with electrical tape or use a heat shrink to finish.

Old Radios

Radios are boxy and have bigger circuit boards than LCD televisions. Its parts are not too geometrically dependent, making it easy for novice Atlanta electricians to unscrew, remove and replace these radio parts. You would need a set of precision screwdrivers, an electronic contact cleaner, and a soldering iron to repair or clean radio circuit boards.

Scratchy noise and inaccurate AM/FM dial settings are likely due to dirt encrusted in the printed circuit boards inside radios. Cleaning only needs an electronic contact cleaner for daily-used radios, but for older and neglected radios, you may need to replace the solder on some contacts.

Take care to sharpen the end of your soldering pen before attempting to replace the solder in older circuit boards because it will improve the precision landing of the melted solder into the contact.

Dead Electric Fans

Deteriorated parts or power-surged caused problematic internal wiring are primary causes of electric fan death (and almost any other electronic appliance.) Dead or bent wires leading to terminals could be a leading cause.

You would need a Philips or flathead screwdriver (depending on your fan switch’s screws), a multi-voltage tester and a soldering iron.

Remove the bolts from the switch or the case of your appliance. Check the wires on the power switches. Remove them and complete a circuit without the switch. For anyoone who has a dead electric fan, get in touch with:

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If the fan turns on after you plug it in, then the switch has the problem. Buy a replacement switch and re-solder the wires accordingly. If not, you may need to re-wire your fan. Re-wiring is an advanced electrician’s skill, which means you may need to buy a new fan or ask a repair facility for professional help.

Being an electrician in South Africa is to place yourself at the forefront of technical success. South Africa’s infrastructures need more engineers and electricians to build, develop and finish structures as investors pour into the developing nation and improve its economy.

In other countries, becoming an electrician is a respectable profession with the United States and Middle Eastern countries including Dubai and the United Arab Emirates needing industrial-based employees for increasing infrastructure projects.

However, it does not mean the competition is fierce. South African and even international companies value any employee who has undergone an electrician apprenticeship program.

Work-Based Skills For Almost Every Industry

An apprenticeship during or after college is similar to on-job-training most students go through except the employers pay you for your services. The compensation might be small but think of it as tuition for your added education.

An apprenticeship takes a fresh electrician out of college into real-life industry situations with guidance from both the company and their assigned mentors. College or vocational electrician education institutions often teach general knowledge and aim only to develop the core skills of an electrician, including arithmetic, logic and the theoretical side of the industry.

Lessons learned in an apprenticeship are the tried-and-tested knowledge that is virtually infallible. And you are only paying a small amount for it (and still having your employers pay you.)

Train With Experienced Electricians

Tried-and-tested skills could only come from individuals with experience. Apprenticeship mentors are experienced electricians whose years under their tool belts have taught them that textbook knowledge could only get an electrician so far in the industry and only so far in his or her personal growth in knowledge and skill. Professionals at Electrician Columbus Oh offer apprenticeship opportunities for anyone Ohio residents who have the degree.

Mentors in the company make apprentices understand that one’s academic education does not make a competent electrician. These individuals teach novices the structure and workflow most companies provide electricians of their caliber, dealing with company policies, improving one’s resourcefulness and more.

Hands-On Applied Learning

Apprentices do not have their noses stuck inside books all day. They can study during their off-work hours, but in their respective workshops, their mentors would assign to them tasks that would build their skill and test their character.

The hands-on learning approach provides apprentices industry skills they will use and value for the rest of their careers as electricians. Mentors could stress the discipline associated with each exercise, which allows novices to develop their perspective about certain methods and improve on them.

Impressive To Most Employers

Many industrial employers value electricians with an apprenticeship in their roster. The apprentice’s initial experience in a real work setting offsets their academic achievements as the applied learning makes them more efficient than a fresh graduate.

In South Africa, electrical companies need individuals experienced with different situations. A company’s recruiting department may have asked you during an interview regarding certain situations and your solution to such circumstances. Your answers to these questions reflect your experience, questions that an apprenticeship could help you respond in a defined manner.

Other Skills Not Taught In Classrooms

Mentors with years of experience in their work will supply you with other skills aside from the technical aspects of your apprenticeship.

Skills not taught in classrooms, such as working with teams, leadership, and field analysis when a huge margin of errors are present in the study, is something mentors could teach apprentices indirectly.

A World Bank report early this year stresses that traditional education still has the upper hand against online courses and learning. However, online education and its institutions are noticing areas to improve from student experience to facilitating online education. The improvement of online education might render traditional universities all over the world obsolete in the next century.

University and traditional learning’s obsolescence might not come too soon as this report admits. Online education is evolving at a steady rate and has produced positive results according to some students.

If you plan to take a degree, diploma or vocational electrician’s course online, it pays to know these seven facts before beginning your journey.

Growing Quality Of Online Courses

The World Bank report cites investigator reports about the closing down of many universities and learning institutions all over the world. The number could see acceleration by 2040. The online learning revolution would force traditional universities from the United States and the rest of the world to transition to the world’s biggest communication medium, the Internet.

South Africa only has a few universities. However, many electrical and roofing trade  schools exist. Online institutions with premium education will prove effective for South Africa and the entire African continent’s educational system.

Institutionalizing online education in South Africa is a possible task, but not one without its challenges. Gradually, online courses would evolve into university-level education, which would be beneficial for aspiring electricians and other willing learners.

Primarily For-Profit

Private companies and organizations own most online institutions today, which means these universities intend to make a profit.

For-profit schools have some advantages. Accredited for-profit education graduates who wish to take another degree could have the prospective institution credit their courses.

Online education offered by these institutions is a mix of degree and vocational knowledge. Private schools have instructors with years of experience teaching lessons and skills, relating their lessons to real-life situations with proper application creating an engaging learning environment.

However, materials and other requirements are a premium for for-profit online universities. Earning your physical diploma or certification online, for example, would require a hefty payment from your end.

Requires Lots Of Discipline/ No Direct Accountability

One lesson traditional university teaches students is discipline. Professors would have students who fail to perform adequately in class exposed to discreet stimulation such as class recitation and discussion. These invitations to participate actively in class stimulate students’ brains while homework and reading materials improve the knowledge the class stimulation ingrained in them.

Voluntary education with online universities requires self-discipline and deep interest in the subject. Electronics and electrical education, along with other technical lessons, could prove boring or troublesome. Most online classes would tackle mostly academic areas of this field, which could prove insufficient without any proper hands-on or closely observed lessons from educators.

Not Effective With Community Colleges

Another study from California shows online courses lacking student stimulation and improvement in community colleges. A study by University of California-Davis researchers found that most students studying online versions of their courses had failed to finish or pass their course. Researchers concluded with extensive analysis that students perform better with traditional teaching.

In California, similarly with South Africa and other African countries, community colleges educate half of the population (while these educational institutions educate more individuals in Africa). The research showed online schools have failed to bring in graduates.

One reason is that students prefer to take mathematics and technical subjects, essential subjects for would-be electricians, in a traditional classroom. According to the researchers, an online presentation with a voiceover is ineffective brain stimulation for technical courses.

Not As Mobile As Most Think

As online university students fail to invest enough time to perform for the online university’s requirements, other researchers focused on finding areas to improve online education.

Existing studies stress that Millennials use their smartphones and tablets in learning skills essential for their goals or their work. More schools are using technology to facilitate learning and taking cues from online marketers on the use of visuals to educate students.

Online universities are not quite mobile; presentations with voiceovers are poor mediums to educate online students. Online electrician degree-takers could use an app simulation designed to emulate the experience of a hands-on experience. The real hands-on learning experience would outdo the app at any rate, but developing interactive mediums is a great start.

Efficacy Could Bounce From “YouTube-Learning” to University Level Realizations

As educators save lectures and presentations and upload them as reviewable videos, students feel they can access the content at any time. Some lecturers even download YouTube videos to supplement their educational material.

However, YouTube’s tutorial videos and recorded lectures perform better than most online educational lectures captured on video. In fact, Internet schools do not save to file an educator’s entire lesson. In some cases, lecturers use teaching materials prepared by third parties with teachers facilitating the learning process

If an aspiring electrician taking an online course dedicates him or herself to the curriculum and invests time, the efficacy of online learning could go from YouTube-style learning to university-level lessons. The educational institution, whether online or offline, only makes up half the educational experience; the student’s motivation is always the focal point of improving the learning experience.

Anybody can be an electrician. SAIS is all about making this idea prevalent in South Africa, a country that would benefit from a rising population of electricians with innovative solutions to the country’s electrical problems.

SAIS is a community that intends to bring together novice to professional electricians, and even doctorate electricians, to share their ideas from fixing common household outlets or electronic gadgets and appliances to expanding one’s career opportunities through knowledge and additional educational achievements.

SAIS intends to grow its community as a top South African collective of electricians passionate about bringing progress and technology throughout South Africa through their profession.

Expand your knowledge, and possibly your career, by reading through the community’s content or help other electricians achieve their goals by being a stepping stone towards each other’s goals in this website.

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