If you’re in the electrical business, you’re in the service business–whether you want to be or not. Electrical construction companies must warrantee what they build, at least for a specified period of time. Electrical service is the highest calling of my industry. The service technician must have intimate knowledge of not only how electric circuits [...]
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TROUBLESHOOTING
Troubleshooting electrical defects is a logical and systematic methodology employed by electricians experienced in equipment repair, electrical construction and electrical theory. How and why an electrical circuit works, or doesn’t work, is a vital key to problem-solving. Often, an electrician must get to the cause by eliminating what is not the cause…like any good detective; [...]
THE BID, JOB COSTS AND SPECS
Job costs and specifications are integral parts to any bid. Specs are how engineers build quality into a project by calling out the exact type items to be used, the manufacturers they want used, along with the catalog number of the products they want used. Engineers also use specifications to inform the electrician of different [...]
THE BID, FROM TAKE-OFF TO QUOTATION
THE TAKE OFF I always bid a job as if I were the one wiring it along with a good helper. I keep breaking it down into smaller and smaller pieces of the job, until they are manageable in my mind. A function of work equates to a dollar amount. Computer programs automatically add-in different [...]
MAINTENANCE
Maintenance of electrical switch gear and electrical equipment comes in two categories: Reactionary and Preventive. Reactionary is very close to no maintenance at all, or so little maintenance that when equipment or components malfunction, you must drop everything and in crises mode, run to repair or replace. This maintenance program accounts for most of our [...]
ELECTRICAL SAFETY AND THE TECHNICIAN
An Electrical Service Technician (ST) requires working with energized electrical wires, devices, panels, meters and appliances. The ST must be required to have the proper tools and wardrobe to do the job in a safe manner. For example: Long pants, long sleeve shirt, visible identification (badge, name and company patches, etc.), work boots or shoes [...]
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