Electrical Motors and Components:

Types of motors (e.g., squirrel cage induction motor)

Soft starter and its working
IP rating explained
Deck motor IP rating
Motor used on the deck in an LPG carrier
Steering gear electrical safeties and how to test them
Instructions for opening an electric motor on deck
Motor revival after exposure to saltwater
Minimum IR value for a motor
VFD function and construction
Squirrel cage induction motor construction
Motor revived from salt water, what you going to do as a 2nd engg?

Electrical Safety and Surveys:

All electrical safety measures
Preparing for an electrical survey as a second engineer
Electrical survey preparations as a 2nd engineer
Checking under voltage trip
Checking reverse power relay activation

Electrical Equipment and Systems:

Main engine auto slowdown circuit working
Static electricity and its occurrence
High Voltage (HV) systems and their applications
PI (Polarization Index) test for insulation resistance
How to check under voltage trip
How to check reverse power relay activate

Alternator
Excitation process for a generator
Power factor and its significance
Actions for PF leading and lagging
Voltage regulation in emergency panels
Sensing voltage in emergency panels during normal operation

Cables and Wiring:

How cables are rated
Wiring diagram from alternator to navigational panel

Emergency Fire Pumps and Regulations:

Emergency fire pump regulations
Power supply sources for fire pumps under normal conditions
Under normal conditions fire p/p power supply given from which feeder panel?
Semiconductors
Working of a transistor
Thyristor functions and uses
Triac and its functions
Thermistor and its working in detail
Superconductors and their properties
Cyclo converter and its working
Alternator
Alternator specifications and it's maintenance step by step
Why alternator rated in KVA and name plate details of alternator
Alternator maintenance.. How to do diode test?
Alternator speed control method
Brushless alternator full explanation with drawing
Brushless alternator maintenance and working
Brushless alternator working and how exitation achieved.
Brushless and conventional alternator
What is residual magnetism and ways of recovering it.
Procedure for doing the residual magnetism in alternator
Purpose of airgap? How much clearance? Cross qns
Shaft generator
Safeties of alternators in alternator side
Generator started and voltage not developed reasons
How ll yu train your junior for paralleling two alternators
All Generator fails to produce voltage after black out?Causes? Actions to take?
Can we do emergency generator onload test during cargo loading -deciding question and lot of cross questions
When 2 generator running in parallel one generator showing less kw compared to other one.. Reason??
Where yu re using single phase in ship

AVR
Draw Avr ciruit
Avr parts &working
Avr, types of AVR, which one you prepared

Motor and Starters

3phase induction motor advantages compare to 1 phase induction motor
Difference between synchronous and induction motor
Synchronous motor
Synchronous motor , speed control of synchronous motor
Synchronous condenser
Working Principle of synchronous motor proper definition
Motor protection devices
How thermal overload relay works
Single phasing , effect of single phasing, how to prevent
Single phasing protection
Types of speed control in AC induction motor
How can we reduce speed in induction motor.
AC motor speed control..
Explain VFD
How frequency changing
VFD applications on ship.
Vfd?How it works?
Speed control of motor, various types, E/R crane wat type motor,
Soft starter ,Triac.
Soft starter full with diagram, working, starting
Auto transformer
Auto transformer working and it's application in ship 6. PID controller working and it's application in ships
Autotransformer principle.. Auto transformer starter diagram explain, application 15. Variable speed drive? Frequency? Appli
Star delta motor starter diagram
Lub oil motor burnt and repaired from yard - what r all the checks u do on that motor ,
For crane motor overhauling what are all the things u discuss in tool box meeting ,

Power Distribution
MSB safeties
MSB trips,
Voltages in ship
Neutral system , earthed ,isolated
Insulated and isolated system
Types of neutral system,which one is good
Busbar material? Thickness.. Safety provided from alternator cables to busbar?
Acb and vcb difference and application
Acb component
Why main contactor & auxiliary contactor
What is arch schute
How arc is quenched
Arc angle
Arc temperature
How to check reverse power trip in front of survayor
How to show reverse power to surveyortrip for single generator running
And how under voltage relay works.
Preferential trip explanation
CT working and applications of CT in ship circuit
What is dead front type panel

Batteries
Battery onboard, it's regulations, battery supply items difference in cargo ships and passenger ships.. Everything about both Le
Battery room safety
Battery testing
Emergency power supply regulations
Gmdss source of supply
Why 24 v is used on board ,

Semi- Conductors
DIODE TEST
Diode, triode
How to check diode using multimeter
Firing angle in tyrister
Scr and thristor _ both r same
Triod , where it is using
SCR applications and construction working
IGBT working applications, where it is used in ship(bt motor)
Triac igbt
Igbt, mostet, bjt
IGBT, uses and how IGBT differs from SCR and it's advantages. Working? Construction details. Applications
Zener diode( polarity will change r not? ) Wer onboard using
Zener diode and zener barrier and what is avalanche breakdown why in zenor after breakdown voltage voltage is not increasin
Zener diode working and application.
Forward bias reverse bias characteristics
Avalanche break down Or zener breakdown?
Half wave full wave rectification application on ship.
Half wave full wave rectifier how it works , where it is application on ship
Application of all electronic epyuipments
Cyclo converter working .
Home invertor
Electronic measuring instrument u know
Plc
PLC explanation and applications on ship.( Boiler)
Plc,scada

Transformer
Function of transformer
Transformer construction
3 phase transformers
Welding transformer construction x q

Insulation
Explain IPS.What is IP54S?Explaination.
Insulation classes
What IP 28??
What IP value for deck and engine room motor in ur ship?

Steering Gear
Steering gear motor
Steering gear motor safeties and safeties in electrical part
Steering gear motor,what type,regulation.

Miscellaneous
What if motor with 50hz frequency is put in place of 60hz 20. Circuit breaker specification
How to check the navigational light. I told indication lamp, bt he told thts the indication. How u will check the bulb.
Difference between Ums class and non ums class vessel with respect to boiler alarms and trips
Cargo conductivity
Incinerator alarms and trips
Kirchoff's law explain
Electric propulsion
Electrical survey
What r all Document u show to surveyor during electrical survey?
While dry docking earthing is required or not???
What Ll yu check while getting shore power
acid and nickel cadmium batteries and their maintenance
what happen inside the diode
Alternator
Alternator specifications. Explain IP rating
Alternator details.
Safeties of alternator
alternator to be overhauled isolation procedures
Isolation procedure of alternator for maintenance (as 2E). He expected answers starts from tool box meet,risk assessment etc
Brush less alternator working principle .
Cross question were the secondary is tapped
What is brush alternator.
you started a generator but not got voltage? Reasons?

Motor
You are recieved an overhauled 50KW motor from shore. As 2E what checks you will do to confirm the motor which you reciev
as a second engineering how will you carry out the maintenance of a motor onboard
Electrical motor overhauling procedure.
Rewinding motor what r the checks you dp as a second engineer?
Rewound motor what are the checks to be done

Power Distribution
Msb safties .
Earth fault alarm coming how will you trace out?.
how will you trace a earth fault on your ship
Reverse power trip and how it works.
Reverse power trip why?
Reasons causing low voltage.
Explain Undervoltage trip
mcb trips undervoltage trip
Undervoltage trip explain? Why it is coming when it is coming?

Batteries
You have four 12v batteries...how do you connect.
24 supply onboard,
24v where are the supply?
battery maintenance
Checks in batteries
Trickle charging
Trickle charge explain. What are the conditions to change from full charge to trickle charge. How is the change over achieved?
what is difference between normal light and emcy light supplied from batteries.

SemiConductors
Diode, zener diode, transistor, thyristor explain purposes and where it used.
How to you identify electronic components in circuit diagram
I think he expects those symbol to draw and explain.
what are the use of multimeter
Emer. Generator
emergency generator safeties
Emergency generator SOLAS regulations.
emergency lighting circuit

Miscellaneous
What all voltages in ship.
autotransformer
Ig alarms
Explain fire detection system circuit for fire detectors. What all alarms indicated on the panel of the alarm system?
fire detectors electrical connections
How Fire detectors fitted as per solas chapter 2.
eet,risk assessment etc.

motor which you recieved is same sent from your ship.

change over achieved?

Alternator
Alternator specifications.
Air gab, uneven air gab, how to measure and how much,
How to flash exciter
Loss of excitation
Residual magnetism and field flashing
Residual magnetism and ways to recover the residual magnetism and what will happen if it lost
What is residual magnetism? What it does ? What is there to bring back and how explain procedure

AVR
AVR, explain static avr
AVR and types( detail), explain carbon pile
Explain carbon pile avr
Explain Carbon pile regulator
Types of AVR . Explain carbon pile type

Motor
Cause of single phasing
Motor is seawater ingressed procedure for overhaul and repair
Protection for single phasing
Single phasing? Do you use fuses currently on board ? Why and where used
Soft starter working? Used in induction motor?
Speed control in AC motor
Star Delta connection in terminal box?
Star Delta starter? Explain
Synchronous motor
Synchronous motor, why all synchronous motor not auto staring.
Types of motor overcurrent protection
Types of overload protection in motor, explain bimetallic strip type
Vfd working?

Power Distribution
Earth fault finding..
Earth lamp indication in 220v working
Earth lamp indication... I told that one ll dark and two ll bright.... He didn't accept.
How will you find earth fault?
Why separate earth fault for 220 and 440v
Ships insulation system
Neutral earth system,
Insulated neutral system
Neutral earthing resistor? What is earthed system and insulated system where used
Earth resistor in high voltage... Resistor spl arrangement asper solas
High voltage safety. Why high voltage all machinery small compare to low voltage system,
Safeties of MSB
Preferential trip
What is Preferential trips? Working? Timing of trips ? How achieved?
Short circuit
Components of circuit breaker?

Paralleling
Synchronization voltage method
Synchronouscope and if it fails how will u parallel the generator
Synchroscopes working ? Other methods ? If lamps and synchro out of order how will your bring other AE on load ?
What will happen in phase sequence is different... Which trip ll activate. What arrangement

Batteries
Battery internal self discharge.
Emergency battery supplies
What are equipments we are using through batteries as emergency supply.
What are all navigational equipments from emergency supply

Semiconductors
Diode testing?
Plc and where used onboard
Thyristor working
Thyristor working principle and application

Instruments
Can you test IR with multimeter if no why
Diff b/w multimeter and megger, how to test megger is working satisfactory and how will you test insulation resistance using t
How to use multimeter, how to test diode
How will you check Insulation resistance?
Megger and multimeter difference.
Megger working
Multimeter working
Types of insulation tester

Steering Gear
Steering gear motor regulation
Steering gear motor safeties and how will u test
Steering gear motor solas regulation

Emer. Generator
Emergency generator load test without black out
Emergency generator onload test without blackout
Emg gen regulation ,tryout procedure without blackout
Procedure for emg cy generator testing on load

Miscellaneous
Iccp
ICCP working / current?
Mooring winch motor safety... I said magnetic breaking... He said he want in electrical side...
Motor used in e/r crane and its speed control
Shore connection in DD
Shore connection requirements and interlock
AE on load ?

ation resistance using that.

Alternator
Alternator maintenance
Alternator routines ..how to check diode...how will you remove the dirt accumulation if an inside the alternator
Alternator specs,
AVR with too many cross questions.
Types of avr
Avr and excitation
Excitation
what actually happens while increasing and decreasing the DC current in the exciting system...
How to excite alternator of not developing voltage.
Contunity how will u check for gen
Earth neutra system and insulated neutral system
Explain power factor , power factor correction
How ll u improve power factor What power factor does actually
How ll u check alternator insulation resistance (IR)
IR test in rotor
What precautions u do in alternator while taking insulation test say precautions in alternator
Min value of insulation resistance you need in stator of low voltage alternator...how much you actually get?
how many windings in alternator and purpose of each
how will you try out generator engine side alarms,
Pedestal bearing checking
Relationship btwn speed and frequency
Types governor, what S speed droop, characterisation of speed droop, Y motor over heating
What is brush less alternator What is current transformer

Motor
Does it be need to be isolated for working on the motor in the hydraulic system?
Electro magnetic brake working principle
What happens if motor is supplied with 50hz.
How to calculate slip and *synchronous speed
Hw to find synchronous speed in ind motor
How to convert an induction motor to synchronos motor
synchronous motor working construction to draw
Synchronous speed
What is slip
how will you check insulation resistance,
Induction motor construction
Induction motor overhaul.
motor overhaul procedures, if insulation is low
Induction motor speed control
Types of speed controller in IM?
ward Leonard explain after short time he asked me draw and show
Explain about VFD?
Motor safeties,
Soft softer starting current
Types of starter and explain soft starter
What is PI test?
What is the value of DAR test?
Which is best stater.

Power Distribution
ACB working,
Earth fault and cross questions
Earth fault indication
Earth fault tracing
HRC fuse explain and resistance value
HVSB safety
Msb safeties
NER what does it do
reverse power trip with too many cross questions....

Paralleling
How load sharing done bw two generators
Parallel of gen Wat u chk
Synchroscope and with no Synchroscope hw u connect

Battery
battery discharge explain electrochemical reaction
How to check the capacity of battery
Tell abt battery room safety?
What all you check on emergency battery and how...capacity ..?
What is the value of battery charge test in both lead acid and sealed battery? Which form of gas will produce in it?
What will u check in battery?

Semiconductors
Diode and Zener diode,
How amplifier works
Thermistor working
What is dielectric strength
Zener diode and uses hw breakdown

Emergency Generator
emergency generator Solas regulation
how to try out emergency generator,
machineries connected to ESB,

Aux. Equipment
Steering gear motor safeties
Cascade controller and PID controller,
navigation lamp regulations
What is navigation al safeties of light
What type of pump for cargo transfer?
What you will check in that cargo pump motor?
Precautions to take while receiving shore supply,
Shore connection checking
how to select a cable
What are fault in electrical equipment in eng room
What are all things u prepare for electrical survey.
Impedance , reactance , resistance , capacitance explain , applications
Power Distribution
Earth fault & NES
Earth fault meter working
What will you do to find fault the earth fault.
Under voltage trip
Preferential trip
MSB components
Msb safties.
Draw power system on board.
ACB ( x questions)
What are the parts in circuit breaker.

Alternator
Alternator maintenance
Alternator specifications.
AVR ( x questions)
AVR, function, parts contains
Different between ME & AE governor

Semiconductors
Diode, thyristor uses, working
Thyristor and it’s working

Batteries
Safties in battery room
Battery h2 gas how produced
Emcy.batteries how connected, how long power , test

Aux. Electrical System

Boiler flame failure alarm works
Boiler safety alarms and trips
How boiler water level alarms working
ICCP working, whr u will switch off, y?
VFD
Emcy. Generator maintenance
Alternators
Alternator air gap
Alternator maintanance
Alternator specification.what is damper winding
Different between conventional and burshless alternator
Paralleling of alternator?Synchronoscope working procedure?

AVR
Avr working
Avr working why amplifier how does it amplify.
AVR working? Avr- detailed explanation and function ? Working Principle of AVR
How does AVR work? How’s the error signal being generated?
What is avr where it is fitted

Power
Apparent and active power?
Difference b/w shore and ship transmission
How reverse power trip works .what is d range of reverse power .
How to correct power factor?
Wat is power factor ?
What does reactive power do in circuit?
What happens in positive cycle and negative cycle? How it’s exactly happening?
What is power factor .why in ac not in DC .how will u improve it .i said capacitor.what capacitor does.
What is power factor ?
What is the need for reactive power

Voltage
Back emf full cross
Back emf in DC motor
Back emf?
Types of voltages onboard how 220v single phase achieved explain about lighting circuit .
Voltage current lagging waveforms drwing explain
Voltage dip
Voltage in control circuit
Voltages in ur ship

Motor
If it's due to worn bearings then which side air gap ll be less and which side air gap ll be more
Induction motor overhauling,if bearings not coming out by bearing puller,how to take it out
Induction motor working
Parreling condition and synchrous moto construction and working
Single phasing protection
Solas regulation for steering motor
Solas Steering motor regulation
Synchronous condensor
Types of starter ?
What checks made while receiving from shore after rewinding.
What will happen to power factor when you start induction motor ?
What’s a cycle?
When it will be less,

Power Distribution
Acb component
MSB safeties
Synchronoscope working and factors to be consider for synchronisation?
Type of distribution onboard
What is arch schute
What is dead front type panel
What is filter, types of starters , where is auto transformer starter is used.
Why main contactor & auxiliary contactor

Blackout Procedure
Also what is sequntial starting and which motor starts automatically??
Black out what will u do..how emergency generator starts. How battery came in to operation in transom period?
Can we take on load emgy generator during discharging operation PSC on board
Emergency generator loads?
How to test preferrential trip front of surveyor.
Preferential trip explanation
Preferential trip setting ?How to try out preferential trip?Preferential trip why how it works.
Reverse power trip

Battery
How battery is charged on board my ship
How u will order a new battery when all d data from old battery is vanished

Semiconductors
Diode, function and applications
Half wave rectifier and full wave rectifier
How to you identify electronic components in circuit diagram……? I think he expects those symbol to draw and explain.
Intrinsically safe equipment & line circuit, mention about zener diode & working Principle
Transistor, thyristor explain purposes and where it used.
What is diode & it's function & application
What is diode? How p and n junction behave in diode?
Zener diode complete explanation?

Transformer
Auto transformer working principle?
Explain soft starter and auto transformer?
O/p of welding transformer
Transformer construction and working
Transformer construction principle, working, core loss &cu loss( how to find and where its occur)
Transformer maintenance and checks
Transformer working principle and explanation about current transformer?Voltage transformer n current transformer ?Transf
Wat r all the transformer in ur ship

Insulation
Earth fault ... Earth fault , methods to find ?How will u know an earth fault occurs...
Earth fault tracing.
Earth fault,what is it,how to locate
Earthed neutral and insulated neutral
How will you find out earth fault from first to last

Instruments
How will u use multimeter
Overload current protection
What instrument used fo find earth fault at last

Miscellaneous
Advantages and disadvantages of HV system
Earth fault ... Earth fault , methods to find ?How will u know an earth fault occurs...
Earth fault tracing.
Earth fault,what is it,how to locate
Earthed neutral and insulated neutral
Generator? What happens when you adjust governer control? How speed is varied?
How will you find out earth fault from first to last
Specifications of your supply system?
Thermal image
Why u clean the contactors often .
r working and details.. Step up and step down.. How voltage induced.. Wat abt voltage current and power at primary with respect to secon
primary with respect to secondary.. Realtion between them..