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Luckily after all of that I came out with a pass. The guy really
didnt seem like he was there to fail you he kind of guides you
in the right direction
I arrived 15 minutes before my appointment and reported to reception. After
about 20 minutes the examiner called me in.
He asked for my discharge book and inquired what type of vessel I was last on.
1. Draw distribution diagram (examiner looked through my TRB whilst I did
this).
2. Then talked through the main components of the diagram.
3. What types of Generator protection do you have?
4. How do you test these?
5. Generator circuit breaker is not closing. What could cause this?
6. Why would a generator have no voltage?
7. What would you do if a generator lost its residual magnetism?
8. What could cause a generator to lose its residual magnetism?
9. You have an earth fault, how do you go about tracing it?
10.What tests should you perform on emergency generator?
11.What can the emergency generator supply?
12.Draw star-delta starter. (Only wanted power circuit, again he looked
through my TRB)
13.Explain start-delta operation using diagram.
14.Why do we use star-delta?
15.How would you know if the motor switched to delta? (I said running lamp,
or if left in star it would over heat and trip on over current, so if motor
didnt trip all was OK?)
16.What would happen if a motor single phased?
17.What protection do you have for single phasing? (this lead to OCRS)
18.What types of OCR are there? (Bimetallic will trip motor on single phasing)
19.Operation of Bimetallic OCR?
20.Talk me through HV safety.
21.Why do we use HV?
22.How would you isolate a piece of HV equipment for maintenance?
23.What maintenance have you done to bridge equipment? Discussed GMDSS
battery maintenance and RADAR maintenance.
24.Discussed electrical & general safety whilst working on bridge equipment.
25.What Ex equipment have you come across?
26.What does intrinsically safe mean?
27.You have been asked to take part in a fire drill, what BA checks would you
carry out?
28.What fixed fire detectors did you have on board?
29.How do you test these?
30.What fixed firefighting installation did you have on-board?
31.Explain operation of fixed firefighting installation?
Oral questions
Gave me an electrical diagram of a seawater cooling system.
Battery Maintenance,
UPS
What is a ups
Whats the purpose
What type of equipment would be connected
Fire Systems
Examiner- Mr Groark
Show passport
Testimonials
Confirm date of birth
Discharge book (examined the range of vessels and period in rank)
Q. What type of vessels are you currently sailing on?
A. Diesel electric LNG vessels.
Q. Please draw the electrical distribution system from your last ship.
Q. Are the bus ties between the two sides of the main 6.6Kv switchboard
normally kept open or closed?
A. Closed
Q. What about the bus tie between the two 440v switchboards, open or
closed?
A. Open
Q. Why?
Q. If you were chief engineer and your planned maintenance system spat
out a planned job on a main transformer during a passage from Singapore
to Cartagena what would you do?
Q. Would you carry out the job? Do you feel commercial pressure? Why?
Q. What information would you use to assist in making this decision?
Q. As chief engineer where would you prefer to carry out this job? Why?
Q. Explain how you would make one of the 6.6Kv - 440v transformers safe
to work on.
Q. How is the transformer earthed down?
Q. Who carries out the isolation and earthing procedure?
Q. What normal maintenance jobs would you perform on a transformer?
Q. What would happen if you tried to perform an insulation resistance test
on the transformer windings now? What reading would you get?
Generators
Youve ran up a generator but it keeps falling off the main
switchboard what could be wrong? What are the basics
you would look for on the switchboard panel?
What are the circuit breaker protection trips for a
generator?
Is there actually such a thing as overvoltage? Explain it.
What is reverse power? What does it cause?
Your generator is running but theres no voltage, what
could have caused it and how would you fix it?
Where is the residual magnetism in a generator?
What windings would you connect the field flashing
battery to?
What are the diodes for in the excitation system? Explain
what a diode is and what it does. What is the mechanical
equivalent to a diode?
Would a problem with one diode affect the excitation
output?
What else could be wrong in a faulty excitation circuit?
What is an AVR? What does it do? What faults can occur in
an AVR circuit?
What is a synchroscope?
Two generators are on the board at 62Hz. How would you
reduce their frequency?
Motors
Methods of speed control for an AC motor.
Transformers
What is a transformer?
A transformer requires planned maintenance while your
ship is at sea would you do the work? Why not or why?
Explain what a switching programme is and how you
would isolate a transformer.
High Voltage
Why do we use high voltages on board ship?
Circuit Breakers
Whats the difference between LV and HV circuit breakers?
How does a vacuum circuit breaker operate?
Why do you have bus tie breakers?
Emergency Generators
If you lose mains power how does your emergency
generator start? (what actually takes place for it to start?)
Most common method used to start an emergency
generator?
How quickly must an emergency generator run up and be
connected to the board, according to regulations?
What is fed off the emergency switchboard?
Fire detection
What other fire detection components are there? (other
than smoke, heat, flame detectors)
Batteries
Bridge Equipment
How do you do an on-load test for GMDSS equipment? (2
ways.)
The VDR is in alarm whilst youre in port. What could be
wrong?
What equipment feeds into the VDR?
Should an AIS be switched off in port?
The ship is in port and the echo sounder is switched on but
nothing happens, what could be wrong? What would
happen if the echosounder worked whilst the ship was in
port?
How does an echosounder work?
Why else (other than power supply) would an echosounder
not work?
What other equipment has problems with seals failing and
consequently, water ingress?
battery checks
emergency distribution
UPS
Star delta draw and explain, what happens if stuck in star? how do we know its
switched over? why does starting in star reduce current
BA checks
HV safety
How to clean up and oil spill what would i do? where does the oil go after the bilge?
Go in, hand in your TRB and Workbook. Sit for 15-20mins and he will call you in.
1. Draw me your typical power distribution.
2. Explain it in general, why each component is where it is and what is it used for.
13. How would you ensure the shore connection is ok when you connect it.
14. UPS, what is it.
15. How does UPS Work.
16. What services use UPS systems.
26. What differences are there from LV and HV isolation. Remember Sanction to Test
27. How do you enter an enclosed space, what needs to be in place.
started off looking at the particulars of my last ships, then asked about boiler and
engine room air compressor, well drain valve open so less mechanical load
4. emergency switchboard, lighting, solas regs
5. emergency generator tests
6. spoke about propulsion systems
7. spoke about hv motors such as bt, st, ac compressors - spoke about refrigeration
8. talked about shore connections
9. spoke about fire fighting fixed installations
10. spoke about co2 release
11. spoke about enclosed spaces.
12. ba set checks
13. working on hv equipment, eptw, stored energy
14. hv equipment isolation and sanction to test
15. risk assessment
16. generators - loss of voltage - avr and residual magnetism, field flash
17. Cant think of any more, but will let you know if I do
Distribution diagram
1. he drew a distribution system and then got me to talk about faults that caused a
blackout, restoration
2. Boiler, faults, checks and failure to start
3.emergency swbd, whats fed and why
4. fire fighting
6. HV - permit to work, saction to test
7. Variable speed drive - this threw up some discussion he believed that snychro
convertors operate by varying the voltage so we talked aroun that for a bit and he's
going to read up on it.
8. synchronising generators
9. nav lights and bridge equipment
10. batteries and specific gravity etc
11. Star delta - again we had a bit of a chat about the fact that input line currents would
be the same even if your getting it stuck in star.
12. cant think of much more.
He then sent me out of the room as he was being examined by some other dude in the
room, they must have had a brief discussion about the questions he had asked me. I then
came back in the room after 2-3 mins and he asked about load sharing AGAIN,
24, If one genny is 600kw the other is 400kw what do we have to control to ensure they
share loads evenly
25, the bus frequency no has dropped to 58 Hz what will you do?
26, Breaker wont close on switch board, what coould be problem, ( RESET button on
breaker)
27, Your on a cargo ship and you have one lift for crew, the chief asks you to fix it but
you dont have a permit to work. what would you do?
RADAR MAINTENANCE:
Working at height PTW, talked about PPE, communication with deck officers not to
transmit on equipment as man is working aloft (warning signs on such equipment),
checking of magnetron current once new one installed (locking radar in one direction
while doing this).
ETO CoC
Questions based on
Earthing arrangements