Solar Technical Training — Shared Core training

What this program prepares you to judge

• Walk a roof and a service panel and describe the whole system before touching a tool
• Run a site survey that the design team can actually build from
• Isolate DC, AC and battery energy safely, every time, with the right PPE and LOTO
• Commission a system to spec and prove it with measured, condition-corrected numbers
• Triage the faults that generate most service calls inside the first fifteen minutes
• Isolate advanced multi-symptom faults without shotgun parts replacement
• Run a professional service call from arrival to verified handover
• Close solar jobs cleanly in EcoService OS with defensible documentation
• Pass a full four-stage field assessment on a live hybrid system scenario

Curriculum

• Solar fundamentals for field technicians

  Learn how a solar system behaves before you touch it. Follow the power from the panels to the service panel. Learn what normal output looks like. Know which parts can still carry electricity after the AC switch is open.

• Site assessment & system identification

  Arrive, classify the architecture in three minutes, walk the site ground-to-roof in a fixed order, and separate what the ticket says from the scope the site actually contains.

• Installation sequence & best practices

  Learn the order that keeps an installation safe, dry, electrically sound, and ready for inspection. Complete each layer before the next layer hides it.

• Electrical hazards, isolation & LOTO

  Learn where electrical energy remains after a shutdown. Follow one isolation method every time. Prove the work point is safe before touching it.

• Working at height, battery hazards and emergency response

  The two hazards that put PV technicians in hospital most often — a fall and a battery — plus the first five minutes of an emergency, taught to US, Kenyan and South African expectations.

• Wiring, earthing/bonding and protection

  The electrical half of an installation: what has to be bonded and how it is proven, what each protective device is actually for, and the conductor decisions that quietly cost yield for a decade — taught to US, Kenyan and South African expectations.

• Testing, commissioning and handover

  Prove the installation before it is energised, prove the behaviour after it is, and leave behind a record that stands up to a US inspection, an EPRA installation record or a South African Certificate of Compliance.

• String inverters — operation & service

  Learn what inverter faults mean before you reset or replace anything. Sort each code into a fault family. Then measure the condition that family predicts.

• Microinverters & module-level power electronics

  Work effectively on Enphase-style and optimizer systems, where the diagnosis lives per module and the comms layer lies to you.

• Battery storage systems (AC & DC coupled)

  Learn how a battery adds stored energy, separate isolation points, and automatic protection behavior. Tell a battery protecting itself from a battery that has failed.

• Monitoring systems & performance data

  Use monitoring the way a senior tech does — to find problems before the customer calls, and to explain them once they do.

• Commissioning & acceptance testing

  Learn to prove a new system works before handover. Run each check in order. Record the expected value beside the measured value.

• First-line diagnostics — the 80% problems

  Triage the handful of faults that make up most service calls, and know what to check in the first fifteen minutes.

• Advanced troubleshooting logic

  Systematically isolate the faults that survive the easy checks — without shotgun parts replacement.

• Electrical measurements that matter in solar

  Take the right readings, in the right conditions, and interpret them correctly instead of guessing at 'out of range'.

• Fault-finding, diagnosis and maintenance

  A repeatable diagnostic method, the DC-side and hybrid fault families behind most call-outs, and the preventive maintenance discipline that keeps systems off the fault list — documented to US inspection, EPRA field-record and South African CoC expectations.

• The professional service call

  Run a service call end to end: arrival, customer conversation, diagnosis, repair, verification and handover.

• Documentation, warranty and liability

  Learn which records protect the customer, technician, and company. Build the record while the work is visible, not later from memory.

• EcoService OS mastery on solar jobs

  Run the whole job through the platform — dispatch, work order, Maya diagnostics, parts, photos, invoice.

• Capstone — full field assessment

  One real callout, four graded labs: work it safely, diagnose it, verify it, and document it like a senior technician.

• Documentation, handover and regulatory awareness

  The records that make the work safe, warrantable and defensible: why documentation exists, what belongs in a commissioning and handover pack, and which regulatory artefact each market expects — US permit and inspection, Kenyan EPRA-oriented records, South African CoC and PV GreenCard.

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