Customer Interview: I recently had the opportunity to interview Gerard McCaughey, the CEO of Entekra. We discussed home building techniques and how Entekra is leading the way in developing better, faster, and more efficient methods of building homes in a fraction of the time it takes to build using conventional methods. Transcript Walter Resendes (00:00): …
Customer Interview: Lamar Tool and Die Recently we had the opportunity to complete a project for Lamar Tool and Die in Stockton California. Larry Snoreen, the owner of Lamar, chose Access Electric to be his electrical contractor in this design build project. The project involved a complete remodel of an empty warehouse facility. A new …
How to Make Parallel Offset Conduit Bends Conduit bending is both an art and a science. When you look, if you are a construction nerd like me, at a well designed, properly installed, well planned and implemented conduit run, you cant help but admire and respect the craftsmanship that went into it. While most conduit …
Calculating Conduit Fill Most electricians today carry around an Ugly’s book like this one. It has a lot of reference tables in it that we use everyday and is small and convenient to carry around as we go from job to job. The Uglys book has a section on conduit fill, taken from Annex C …
Wireless Lighting Control Made Easy If you have an older building with no lighting controls and are either wanting to upgrade your lighting controls, or are wanting to reduce your energy consumption, then the Lutron Vive product is a great way to accomplish that goal without spending a mini fortune to rewire your entire building. …
Basic Motor Control: Jogging Circuit When it comes to motor controls, jogging is a method that uses short bursts of power in order to move a motor or a load into a needed or desired position. NEMA defines jogging as “the quickly repeated closure of a circuit to start a motor from rest for the …
Basic Motor Controls: 3-wire Start Stop with multiple Start Stop Buttons (Part 2) In the last video on Basic Motor Controls we showed you exactly how a 3 wire start stop circuit is wired and how it works. Today we go over the same kind of circuit but add multiple start and stop buttons and …
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Troubleshooting a Motor Starter In this video we will troubleshoot a pump panel motor starter and find out why the starter will not close, or why the motor will not start. Follow along as we test this circuit in a safe manner to determine what the problem is what may have caused it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwTOByZ1yM Share …
Identify Unmarked Leads in a 9 Lead WYE Connected Motor If you have ever tried to wire up a motor only to find that the motor winding leads in the motor have lost their identification number markings, you know how frustrating that can be. In this blog post article we will show you how to …
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Arc Flash Safety Training With the ever increasing dangers to electricians and maintenance personnel from electrical hazards it is so extremely important to understand the hazards and what can be done to minimize those hazards. Recently Access Electric brought in Russ Wong of National Technology Transfer to provide 4 days worth of NFPA 70e Arc …