| American LaFrance Training School - Chassis and their functions |
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| Paul Craft, Parts Department |
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Recently I attended American LaFrance Training School. The main objective of this school was to familiarize the technicians with the American LaFrance chassis and their functions.
The first half of the class covered the eagle and metropolitan chassis. This included all optional and standard function of these chassis. For instance, standard and optional engines (i.e. Detroit, CAT, Cummins) water pumps whether or not you would choose American LaFrance pump or Hale or the new power flow pump. We also went over O.I.C., load manager, and electron fire commander programming, which helps a great deal in engine and electronic diagnosis.
The last section of the training class covered multi-plexing. Multi-plexing is and will be the new standard in which chassis electrical will be set. Instead of using hundreds of individual wires each for one function, multi-plex will use a power, ground, and data signal wire for multiple functions all tied into a central component to run the system. This will greatly reduce the time it takes to troubleshoot and diagnose a problem.
These were just some of the things I learned at the American LaFrance Training School. They taught me a lot and in return helped me become a better Emergency Vehicle Technician, and now I am able to serve you, the customer better.
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