Study/work towards electrician profession

PaulMurkin said:
I passed that subject, I finished N6 with distinctions, one for digital electronics and the other for mathematics.
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Nice I only got upto N4. Math's is not one of my strong points so it was a battle.
Went on to do plc's and robotics aswel and could shoot myself for not going that direction
 
wingnut771 said:
What is industrial electronics?
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A subject, part of the Electrical Engineering course that was offered at the time. You did 4 subjects and finished with N6
The four subjects were:
Mathematics
Industrial Electronics
Digital Electronics
Communications Electronics

These 4 were constant from N4 to N6

This course, and stream no longer exists thanks to the ANC
 
I have some of the books still at home. I did mine around 2005 .industrial electronics I think was the one.logical systems was the other
 
PaulMurkin said:
A subject, part of the Electrical Engineering course that was offered at the time. You did 4 subjects and finished with N6
The four subjects were:
Mathematics
Industrial Electronics
Digital Electronics
Communications Electronics

These 4 were constant from N4 to N6

This course, and stream no longer exists thanks to the ANC
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How long did that take?
 
wingnut771 said:
How long did that take?
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I finished N4 in August 1994, because of maths and my high school teaching me shyte I had to re-do maths the 2nd semester or "block" as it was called.
Then I ran out of money, so I went to go work for a bit and resumed N5 in January 1997 and finished with N6 in August 1997
 
wingnut771 said:
What is industrial electronics? Apologies for the spelling there, I corrected it.
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It’s things like production line automation, designing/programming the machinery that automate things, robotics, sensors to monitor all and sundry. It can be very lucrative and pretty interesting as well.
 
PaulMurkin said:
I finished N4 in August 1994, because of maths and my high school teaching me shyte I had to re-do maths the 2nd semester or "block" as it was called.
Then I ran out of money, so I went to go work for a bit and resumed N5 in January 1997 and finished with N6 in August 1997
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Sounds like the story of my life.

What maths (SG/HG) did you have with matric?

To this day, I still haven't fetched my university exemption matric certificate from the dept of education. I always said I had it but nobody cared.

I wonder if they still have it?
 
airborne said:
It’s things like production line automation, designing/programming the machinery that automate things, robotics, sensors to monitor all and sundry. It can be very lucrative and pretty interesting as well.
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Sounds interesting, but doesn't ring any bells when I was playing out my options.

All I remember was that I was too white and that I shouldn't bother even trying.

Also, money was an issue too, only got my first car at 21 even though I passed with flying colours on my 18th bday.
 
wingnut771 said:
Sounds like the story of my life.

What maths (SG/HG) did you have with matric?

To this day, I still haven't fetched my university exemption matric certificate from the dept of education. I always said I had it but nobody cared.

I wonder if they still have it?
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I had no matric exemption I was a 30%er at school with math because my teacher at high school was extremely bad at her job.
In the July of my matric year my parents told me I would go to college, so I packed up my books and decided f**k-it. Never opened a book further and didn't give a schitt about HS anymore. I passed with a technical matric, and pretty bad marks, yet the college were OK with it and admitted me directly to N4.

my maths was LG if I recall correctly.
 
airborne said:
It’s things like production line automation, designing/programming the machinery that automate things, robotics, sensors to monitor all and sundry. It can be very lucrative and pretty interesting as well.
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How were you introduced to this sorcery?
 
wingnut771 said:
Sounds like the story of my life.

What maths (SG/HG) did you have with matric?

To this day, I still haven't fetched my university exemption matric certificate from the dept of education. I always said I had it but nobody cared.

I wonder if they still have it?
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I still havnt either .Just the report papers.

You asked about timelines for the courses. It was 3months a course when I did mine. So effectively you can do it in 2years if all goes to plan.dont know how it is now
 
PaulMurkin said:
I had no matric exemption I was a 30%er at school with math because my teacher at high school was extremely bad at her job.
In the July of my matric year my parents told me I would go to college, so I packed up my books and decided f**k-it. Never opened a book further and didn't give a schitt about HS anymore. I passed with a technical matric, and pretty bad marks, yet the college were OK with it and admitted me directly to N4.

my maths was LG if I recall correctly.
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Flip. I had similar thing happen to me. Went to a fairly good school that I was told I'm extremely lucky to go to but couldn't cope with academic stuff. Got sent to FET college in grade 10 and went from there.

Always felt ashamed of it but it's awesome to see I'm not the only one.

Some of us are just built differently, some can push number on paper others work with our hands
 
Industrial Electronics as a subject in these N-courses was some of the same content that you learn for a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering - in other words:

* RC circuits
* Op-amps
* Transistor circuits
* Network theorems
* Semiconductor theory
* Thyristor 3 phase control theory
and much, much more

In N6 it got more intense, so we had to know
* NDT
* X-rays
* Intrinsic safety (Ex)
 
Curt889 said:
Flip. I had similar thing happen to me. Went to a fairly good school that I was told I'm extremely lucky to go to but couldn't cope with academic stuff. Got sent to FET college in grade 10 and went from there.

Always felt ashamed of it but it's awesome to see I'm not the only one.

Some of us are just built differently, some can push number on paper others work with our hands
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In my day the main issues with school that made it extremely difficult for me to cope was the following:
* The incessant bullying
* The poor quality of teaching. Many of the teachers I later would find out, were idiots (no surprise)
* The constant peer-pressure to be in the ruckby team
* The looming prospect of national service
* The stress about all the change happening in SA at the time
 
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