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A technician in safety glasses and insulated gloves, a meter holstered at his belt and a closed notebook in one hand, standing back from a battery on a timber shelf and looking up at the charge controller on the wall above it, a louvred vent beside them and a tool roll on a woven basket below.

Solar PV Maintenance and Fault-Finding — Foundation — Ethiopia

Solar lanterns and solar home systems light most rural homes in Ethiopia, and every system needs someone who can service it safely and find a fault by measuring rather than guessing. You will learn the order for making a solar home system safe and bringing it back, what a service visit checks and how it […]

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A solar maintenance assistant in a plastered room looking at the lit display of a charge controller on the wall, a multimeter in one hand with its test leads clipped to the two posts of a single battery on the shelf below.

Solar PV Maintenance and Fault-Finding — Foundation — Uganda

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Solar home systems are on roofs across Uganda, in Kampala and in district towns, and Uganda’s renewable energy sector warns that poorly installed systems, often handled by unqualified technicians, fail early. This course teaches the work that keeps a system alive: checking it properly, and finding faults by measuring rather than guessing. You will learn

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A solar maintenance assistant crouched beside four batteries on a wooden pallet, reading a multimeter held in one hand while the other holds a probe to the nearest battery, in a bare utility room with a louvred window high on the wall.

Solar PV Maintenance and Fault-Finding — Foundation — Nigeria

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There are solar panels on roofs all over Nigeria, and every one of them needs someone who can service it safely and find a fault by measuring rather than guessing. You will learn to isolate a household solar system safely before you touch it, carry out a service visit and write down what you found,

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A wall of stacked battery modules on a steel rack beside three wall-mounted enclosures holding an inverter, a controller display and a distribution box, an orange clamp meter hanging on the first enclosure and a few tools and papers on a small shelf below.

Off-Grid Solar Systems — Professional

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You can already mount panels and wire a system to someone else’s plan. This course makes you the person who writes the plan: the one who sizes an off-grid system, chooses the battery, commissions it, and stands behind it. You will design a complete off-grid solar system from the load up: run a real energy

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A man in a blue work shirt crouches over an open grey metal box at the foot of a plastered wall, pressing a red probe and a black probe onto the two posts of the battery inside, a red lead running to a meter on the ground, and a single solar panel stands on a pole in sunlight beyond, on dry sandy ground.

Solar PV Maintenance and Fault-Finding Assistant — Foundation — Kenya

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Solar home systems light homes across Kenya’s off-grid counties, and battery backup keeps shops and homes running in the towns when the grid goes down. This course teaches the work that keeps them running: checking them properly, and finding faults by measuring rather than guessing. You will learn to isolate a solar home system safely

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A man wearing a lit headlamp looks down at a yellow multimeter held in one hand with a red probe, red and black leads running from it to the top of a battery on a low metal rack in a dim room, with a second battery beside it, a wall mounted unit with a small blue display above and a dark window at the top right.

Solar PV Maintenance and Fault-Finding — Foundation — Ghana

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Solar and battery backup systems are on roofs and in back rooms in Ghana, and ECG says some communities still get intermittent power cuts and low voltage. This course teaches the work that keeps it running: checking it properly, and finding faults by measuring rather than guessing. You will learn to isolate a solar home

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Solar PV Maintenance and Fault-Finding — Foundation — Ethiopia

Solar PV Maintenance and Fault-Finding — Foundation — Uganda

Solar PV Maintenance and Fault-Finding — Foundation — Nigeria

Off-Grid Solar Systems — Professional

Solar PV Maintenance and Fault-Finding Assistant — Foundation — Kenya

Solar PV Maintenance and Fault-Finding — Foundation — Ghana

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