To be an electrical engineer doesn’t only mean designing and implementing the design but you should also be able to diagnose, troubleshoot and fix some faults in electrical devices. For the past 4 weeks that’s what I have been doing. We (with my partner) call ourselves TEAM ReMeDe (REpairing MEdical Devices).

Our main focus was on the oxygen concentrator; we learnt how they operate, some common faults encountered and basic procedures on how to fix them. The job wasn’t that easy as to all of us it was our first time working on that machine but with the help of the service manual and some advice from our supervisor George we managed to fix all the machines that were brought to us to us.

So basically the common faults with the oxygen concentrators that we worked on were the wearing out of the compresser kits, contaminated sieve beds, blown out fuses and constricted pipes. All these problems could cause the oxygen concentrator to produce no or less oxygen concentration.

One thing I have learnt through this internship is that lessons learned from mistakes are of great worth. I remember  when  we were trying to fix the first oxygen concentrator and burnt the sensor the other teams started laughing us they even  changed our team name to burmede (burning medical devices).it was so discouraging coz that moment I felt like we couldn’t do it anymore, I felt like a failure. But that pushed me forward coz since that incident we tried to follow the necessary procedures so we could not damage other components again. The most challenging task I faced during the repairing was the replacement of the cup seals to the compressor. It wasn’t an easy task to try fitting the cup seals on the cup. But all in all it was really fun….

Adios amigo…….