Skills and competence - Gearbox and Borescope overview
*Courses run weekly Monday through Wednesday*
STL USA’s Gearbox & Borescope Overview course is a 3-day training course designed to introduce the wind turbine gearbox and the use of a Borescope. The course covers gearbox fundamentals, the use and management of the borescope as a diagnosis tool, and troubleshooting basics across a range of scenarios.
Course attendees will get hands-on with a turbine gearbox and borescope through the course alongside theory modules. This course is run in partnership with Evident Scientific the leader in borescope technology.
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Course Options
Gearbox & Borescope
Training time: 3 days
Class size: Max 5
Course content:
Basic Wind Turbine Gearbox overview:
- Gearbox purpose & safety
- Drive train configurations
- Gearbox types
- Gearbox stages
- Gears & bearings
- Lubrication, filtration, and cooling systems
- Condition monitoring systems
- External inspections
- Internal inspections
- Forms of damage
- Reporting
Basic Borescope device training:
Based on Evident Olympus IPLEX G Lite-W Ultra-Portable Videoscope for Wind Energy Technology and Evident Olympus IPLEX GT
- Menus
- Specifications
- Reporting
- Images
- Maintenance and care
- Operation
- Hands-on use (exercise/activ