Some of Our Relay Training Reviews

I work for a testing company and I always wanted to get better with relays but found it difficult to learn more on-site since we don’t usually have much time to play around. Our company owns Omicron and Doble test-sets and was able to borrow them over the week ends. I would grab an SEL relay and follow you step by step and learned a lot that way.

I practiced a lot doing manual pick up and timing test (without changing settings) to get a good foundation and now slowly getting into dynamic testing.

I also purchased your Relay Testing Handbook and find it very useful on-site. I keep the soft copy on my laptop so I can refer to it very easily.

I recommend this course to anyone who wants to get better at testing relays.

Looking forward to more videos from Valence.

Keep up the good work

Chris is extremely knowledgeable and experienced. He has seen almost every mistake that can be made in the protection and control game. This course will provide you with a great step-by-step guide to testing. Not only will you have a good guide, but you will understand WHY you are doing that step.

Highly recommended and properly sized sample of beginning level relay testing practical material

I've done enough coursework in my life in various disciplines and trade crafts to have forgotten some of them. In all of my studies, I have rarely met an instructor who knew their material better, delivered it more clearly and effectively, or who obviously enjoyed teaching their subject more. His class helped me understand relay testing at a level far above what I knew before I took it. It would be difficult to overstate the value of his classes.

Most of the 'relay' problems I have faced were actually human errors instead of equipment errors. Most relay tests would not catch these errors. Examples: Wrong CT/PT ratios, wrong polarity.

This course helped show how testing a relay can also catch human errors in the installation of equipment or wiring and the programming.

This course is unlike any I have ever seen. I have paid ten times the cost to attend training in person, and the training usually covers mostly theory and standards. This course actually shows you how to do real-world relay testing.

It is the best relay training I have had on motor protection relays

Excellent course, We are only as good as the persons who have taught us in the past. But you have laid out a great start to finish on EM relays. I have been testing relays for years and luckily had a decent amount of EM relay testing in my past. This was a great review and learned a few things i had not been aware of. Never too old to learn a thing or two. As time goes on we see less and less EM relays in the field. We have many techs who have only learned and continue to work on micro-processor relays. I’m afraid this is becoming a lost art. Thanks again for a great course!!

Good way to get CEU's and a refresher in relay testing (even for an engineer).

I picked your courses because they looked interesting and they were inexpensive.

I was not disappointed, I found them very informative and quite easy to follow.

I would recommend these courses to anyone needing continuing education or just wanting to learn more about relays.

I learned a lot and look forward to taking more classes from Valence.

What would you tell someone who was thinking about a purchase?
I think the cost of this training was the best money I ever spent for continuing education training. The information passed on was exactly the knowledge I needed to refresh and expand. This training captured my full attention. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

How did you feel about testing relays before your purchase?
I tested relays manually (mechanical and microprocessor) for a number of years before I got any automated equipment so I feel like I have a solid understanding of what is being simulated during testing. Once we got into using automated testing software I could not stand how button-pushers were being sent out to "test relays" and never prove any logic or even determine if the relay will actually trip. But in our industry market time is money so get out there and test as many relays as humanly possible as quickly as possible. I typically take the time needed to prove the important components so I am confident the relay will perform as intended.

How did the material help you?
I am very interested in the dynamic test methods and will be implementing them soon to our test methods. I also saw some test setup methods that apply specifically to my test set that will also help me out in the future.

How do you feel about relay testing now?
I have been reinvigorated! I'm ready to regroup and teach our junior techs some better quality relay testing.

I learned a lot from this course. Having no relay testing experience, I was grateful the real world examples were shown. I will definitely continue with this program, as they become available.

Chris was an excellent instructor. For an inexperienced tester like myself, he made it easy to follow and understand. I was never bored once in the 3 days. I had never used the Doble or its software before, and now I’m confident I have a great base to continue my learning.

What would you tell someone who was thinking about a purchase?*

this is excellent training; this is how we should be testing relays

What frustrated you most about your day-to-day testing work?

I felt confident about testing relays, but I like the philosophy taught in the class. We would find more settings problems if we simulated faults without masking elements.

Do you have a specific example or big win you could share?

Learning to use the dynamic test plans was a big help and could be applied to reclosers and other relays.

How do you feel about relay testing now?

I feel more confident about testing motor relays and look forward to putting these lessons into practice.

Would have saved me a lot of learning curve if I had had this course when I started testing distance and differential relays a couple years ago. Even with a couple years of experience, it filled in some gaps.

Do not hesitate not even for a second if you want to learn the right way to test and commission a protection relay just go ahead and take this course

I have been in electrical testing for the past 15 years and have worked for NETA shops and utilities. The booklet is excellent for a beginner as well as a seasoned test technician. I purchased this for a look at another’s perspective on end-to-end relay testing. Included are test plans, connections, procedures and testing philosophies. The user will find an overview of nearly all of the popular protection strategies as well as a very helpful overview chart.

I have been so impressed with the booklet that I will purchase the expansive relay manual.

Bravo Mr. Werstiuk, (author), you have accomplished in a few pages the equivalent of a semester of test school.

If you are having trouble understanding basic fundamentals of relays , this class is taught by an experienced engineer who can succesfully explain what is going on and how to understand it.

Absolutely take advantage of this course as there is a wealth of information to be obtained not only from the course material, but the instructor as well.

One should take this course whether they know everything about relays or know nothing about them at all. Anyone could walk into this course and learn something. For those who have low experience with testing relays, this class will start you off on the right path to becoming a great relay tester.

This is a great beginner course to 3-phase power for relay testers that are thrown in to relay testing through programs rather than having the electrical theory to back up troubleshooting and expected results.

Simply explained, work at your own pace, great visual effects.

Very well priced, Chris goes into extreme detail and cares about setting you up for success in your testing future.

Great info for Engineer and Field Technician alike.

This course is a must for relay testing engineers who struggle with the testing of more advanced relay functions such as line distance and transformer differential. Instruction on the background and theory of the functions is followed by hands-on testing of these functions on relays that are commonly encountered in the field.

How did you feel about testing relays before your purchase?

comfortable but stressed

How did the material help you?

provided further insight into specific tests that should be performed

How do you feel about relay testing now?

less stressed

this course is good whether you don't know phasors or need a refresher

Chris has an incredible amount of knowledge and experience which he shares as he teaches the theory and practical methods of relay testing. These experiences are so valuable whether you are new or an experienced veteran of relay testing. You get theory and then the opportunity to set up different testing situations to apply and prove the lessons. You can experiment with the circuits and test until you are proficient. Regardless of the brand of test-set, Chris is there to assist and offer advice until you are comfortable with the testing circuit and the test-set's available functions. Excellent opportunity to learn the strengths and weaknesses of different brands of relay test-sets. Chris has a natural talent for teaching!

This course is a vital look into not just relay testing, but how the relay operates in a system. The information offered in this course will cut time spent researching relays and developing test plans.

Worth every time spent on the training, very practical and educational, it gave me both practical view of relay testing and educational understanding of relay testing

1. How did you feel about testing relays before your purchase?
   Most of the time I felt like I was a good copier of relay testing
2. How did the material help you?
   Educating in aspects of power system and its protection
3. How do you feel about relay testing now?
   Confident and with an understanding of protection

Don't focus solely on Enoserv testing, instead try to understand what the relay is intended to do and how you can test it as a whole.

Do it. I had a wonderful experience and learned an immense amount about troubleshooting relays and the test sets.

A different perspective on relay testing, especially since most testing companies use automated testing. It helps better understand the operation of the relays and how the results were obtained. Not just button pushing……..

Chris does a great job ! It is very obvious he has a lot of knowledge, backed up by experience. His patience, and dynamic personality, made for a comfortable learning environment.

I would definitely recommend his classes.

I was really impressed with the instructor's knowledge of both the test equipment and the relays which we tested. I have been to several advanced relay training courses and this was by far the best yet. It is great that it is given by a tester, for testers. I highly recommend this course to anyone who tests relays no matter what their skill set is.

Get your thinking cap on, this class is for students serious about advancing there relay testing career but it is not easy.

There is a lot of higher level knowledge that you could benefit from learning first. However, the course builds around these concepts very well and the entirety of the concepts comes together very smoothly.

I have just bought your protection relay testing set of books about a few weeks ago and I just wanted to say that I’m very impressed with it.

I have been commissioning power systems for a few years and I wish I had found your books a while ago.

I highly recommend this course...don't hesitate. It is worth every penny. Chris is an outstanding instructor with real world experience and he will keep the class interested the entire time.

Chris is an excellent instructor that was able to teach at everyone’s level from beginner to advance. Chris didn’t move on until he felt everyone had a grasp of what he was teaching, so nobody got left behind. I like the fact that Chris taught from his experience and not from a book written by some else. I look forward to taking other classes with Chris.

Worth the time and money, a great class to utilize now and down the road.

If you want to have a better understanding of the electrical theory and / or single phase and 3 phase systems this is a perfect class to start at. Especially before entering the relay testing world

I am really new to the SEL relays but was invited to sit in on the end to end testing class.

Even though I am not familiar with the Accelerator software and don't have any experience so far, I really enjoyed your passion for teaching what you know!

I hope to take some of your other classes in the future.

It filled several gaps in my understanding of phasor diagrams. I found a number of valuable insights.

I am happy to highly recommend the course for any P&C Tech regardless of experience.

I am looking forward to taking additional training courses.

Thank you.

I have already recommended the program to employees at my previous job. This is the most compressive relay training program I have ever seen.

This is a great class; even if you have little to no experience with relays. Chris can really break things down to the most basic level. Great instruction. Great class.

What would you tell someone who was thinking about a purchase?

I scribble phasor diagrams everyday while explaining systems, simulations, or theory. It behooves every NETA technician level 2 and up to be able to understand the relationship between the generator, the sine wave, and the phasor diagram.

Anyone needing to test relays will benefit from this course. The instructor is very knowledgeable about all relays and test sets. He teaches you how to use the equipment you will use in the real world and any possible issues that may arise from a particular test set.

What would you tell someone who was thinking about taking the course?
My thinking is that if you were to complete and retain the knowledge in this course, one could cut years of "trial and error" experience from your career.

What did you enjoy most about the course?

Learning to test the elements manually without the use of automated software and being shown how the relay actually operates and senses readings.

Understanding phase angle relationships to simulate faults.

This is the best training I have seen for 3 phase power systems! The animations are terrific. These are things that I am constantly drawing by hand to help illustrate concepts to other technicians but they just aren't the same when I can't draw them in motion. The links to other sites that are referenced have an abundance of additional theory topics and more animated illustrations. I very highly recommend this course.