Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following tasks to inspect and test stators, armatures, or rotors wound with prewound coils, using electrical testing equipment: Tests armatures, rotors, or stators for misconnected leads and insulation breakdown, using oscilloscope or test panel.

• 2) Determines test hook-up from work ticket and connects coded stator leads to test clips.

• 3) Turns dials to select specified voltage and current.

• 4) Closes circuit and observes meter reading or oscillograph pattern.

• 5) Interprets readings and patterns and records data.

• 6) Touches one lead from high voltage source to stator or armature core and other lead to each coil lead in stator or armature.

• 7) Watches for spark which indicates grounded circuit.

• 8) Places spring steel blade of growler against inside face of stator or drum of armature and rotates over circumference.

• 9) Observes steel blade for vibration which indicates shorted coils.

• 10) Inspects lead and end windings for mechanical damage and conformance to specifications, using gauge, rule, or template to measure length and shape.

• 11) Taps steel die to stamp code on core, using hammer.

• 12) May inspect alignment of stacked commutators.

• 13) May bunch and wrap stator leads to protect them until further assembly.

• 14) May be designated according to item tested and inspected as Armature Tester III; Inspector And Shaper, End Windings; Stator Tester.