Is it to make it watertight or to catch water to help conductivity…

I am installing the meter base and main panel with disconnect for an overhead service at a residential property on Point Roberts in Washington. I need to select a cable, 4/0 aluminum, 3 conductors, and run it in conduit. The panel is 6' from the meter.

I understand that because these are unfused conductors I need to run them in conduit right up to the panel, inside the building, inside the wall and all. Is this true?

Does it need to be schedule 80 conduit?

What kind of cable is preferred?

I drop things all of the time.

Even when I was a forklift driver, I'd knock over pallets filled with expensive tile about once every few weeks.

I am interested in electrical science and I'm good at math. Perhaps I'd be better suited as an electrical or electronic engineer or tech instead?

Any EHT technicians in here? I've been working as a rope access electrician in oil/gas in Alberta, Canada for just under 3 years. I was trained to splice by a coworker using only Acetylene, as that's how he does it. I tried Oxy-acetylene way back when I was first learning and I found it burned too hot, I was buring my wires when doing hot/hot splices. I also didn't like how long it took me to set up both gases just right, and the handle for torch was too long/awkward and I'd accidentally turn a dial on the handle thus fucking up the gas mixture. They also don't give us safety glasses with the proper tint, that shit burns my eyes looking at it.

Is it worth it to finally learn how to splice with Oxy-acetylene now that I'm proficient with acetylene? My QC guy is super hot and horny for me to make to switch.

I am doing a load calculation for a storage facility. There are 5 HVAC units going in. I have the KW load of the heat kits for each one. Do I just add all the KW loads together, and size the feeders based off of that, or is there any load shedding I can calculate for? I am mainly trying to figure this out myself just so I know how to do it, but I will tell them to get an engineer involved if needed.

I work for a staffing agency, and I've generally been making like $33-35 an hour. Benefits kind of suck, and not worth mentioning. I had a couple years of experience when I started with the agency. (have around 3 now)

Since I work with a staffing agency, I've worked with various contractors. When I talk to the other guys who atually work for the contractator about how much they make, it's always been less than me. The most I've heard is $30 an hour even with people with way more experience than me. (non-journeymen though) $25 seems to be common. Is it really that bad everywhere non-union?

I've been wanting to work steady for an actual company because working for agency never feels super secure. While they've mostly been keeping me working full time, time between assignments can sometimes be a lot. But a wage cut would feel bad. My one job offer from a contractor was $25.

Note: I'm out of the loop for wages because I took a long break from electrical before I started working for the agency, so what I was making before isn't that relavent anymore.

note 2: I more superficially live in LA, but work anywhere within a 50 mile radius.

Im a senior in high school and I want to be an electrician, how do I become an apprentice, do I cold call unions or what? I’ve also heard people saying going to college to do an electrical program is not worth it. I live in Ontario btw

Harbor frieght is selling these lever nut packs for a very reasonable price. Would you use these in a pinch, use them regularly or avoid at all costs? They are UL listed, costs for one of these small packs comes to be slightly cheaper than even the large bags/boxes of wagos per unit, but they are not as compact. Personally, I'm considering trying them out when I rewire my barn but wouldn't even bring them up at work

Hello everyone. I’ve been and electrician for about 5 years now. I stared in a smaller electrical company which gave me the chance to learn a little bit of everything without having to go to school. I recently quit my old job and have been applying to new ones I landed and interviewed with path/Amtrak in NYC but I’m required to take an exam in order to proceed to the practical exam. Like I said I didn’t go to school so everything I know has been through on hand practice. But I was wondering if anyone here has taken the exam and could help me out with any guides or practice exams that they have so that I can study.

I am a commercial apprentice mostly using it for tapcons and making holes for rebar to make racks during underslab. I am really leaning towards the M12 because of the weight, does anyone have the M12 and finds it enough for the aforementioned tasks?

Into the grass too.

Because the highest paid electrician I know is a coyote who sells illegal sub labor to huge EC’s and rakes in money that none of us could imagine 😂😂 we’re doing it all wrong boys.

When doing side jobs for friends, family, strangers I have a problem with not asking for money. If they don't offer payment while I'm cleaning up I usually just say have a nice day. I love my job and love to help others with my knowledge and skills but have issues with asking for payment. I hate guys that charge 150$ to reset a breaker or a GFCI. I don't maybe it's just a " Me thing",. Would very much appreciated some wisdom on this issue.

Anyone know what the red tag on a meter means?

Can i stack cables? I have some 480V, 120V and 24VDC cables . I will have a divider for the 24V. Can i stack the 120v or/and 24VDC. I would assume i would have to derate cables for stacking if i didnt allow spacing between cables, but not sure if either of those are allowed per NEC. Basically trying to put a bunch of cables in a 24inch ladder tray w/o having to add a tray on top of it. Does 50% fill count for entire tray area or just tray width.

Some background im 19 about 4 months into my apprenticeship completely green.

My company is a non-union with about 100 employees in central AL.

I’m making trash money according to others. I’m making 15/hr living with my parents so I’m able to save a good bit.

Bring home per week Average of 45 hrs per week come out to be 700-800.

My company has serval specialized fields including generator installs, and low voltage and normal basic resi shit

We’re ab 80% resi 20% commercial.

What I’m getting to is I want to own my own company and run my own show what every young and ambitious person says. But I’ve been seeing I should specialize in something such as low voltage or generators. And sticking to that niche for while on my own.

What can I do to actually have a reasonable request for a raise( I understand it will take time) I’ve started my osha-10 on the side and am looking at some other certs and classes I can take.

What can I do to make the most as an apprentice money wise and business knowledge wise. And what can I do to set myself up to eventually try to run my own show.

As I stand here having installed the 36437394 smoke detector of my career I began to wonder. Why don’t they make flush mount smoke detectors? Something seamless with a finish similar to an in ceiling speaker. Does it have something to do with the shape and its ability to sense smoke?

Also don’t get me started on these nest smoke detectors, so ugly.

I was working on a VFD today for a 172 HP motor.

I had a question about the line side reactor.

I was getting continuity on A to B on both the input and output side of the reactor.

Neither A or B had continuity to C.

I am wondering if this line side reactor is broken.

We removed all wires that could have affected our reading from the reactor during testing.

Can anyone educate me more about these things?

Looking for drill bits that I can drill outdoor tiles using rotary drill

So I went out on a limb so to speak and bought a 2023 nec book, 2023 uglys, and tabs for the code book. Also bought a mike holt exam prep book for 2023. Come to find out my test will be on the 2020 code book. I ordered an additional 2020 code book and tabs since it was only $20. How different do you all think the two code cycles will be? I plan on using the mike holt book to study but also brush up on the 2020 nec. I'm in northern Utah for anyone in my area that might have some insight. Thanks!

I have one year to decide as I am really in the middle of deciding which one to pick. 3 years ago when I got into trouble with police for 'intent to distribute drugs', my mum made me go to work with her friends husband for the summer. The job was doing maintenance for a landlord with alot of properties, which involved alot of plumbing and electrics. Now I have one year to decide and I'm really baffled on what one to decide. Please help.

I'm getting mixed signals from electricians who recently completed installing the recessed lights but multiple people said that recently inspectors are saying that they have to make a drywall box to cover the housing can because some of the fire rated housings were not up to the standard.

Does anyone heard if this is true? This is for condo/apartment.

Code itself doesn't seem to reflect this change.

I’m a Milwaukee guy and a sparky. I am looking for some new tools but I don’t really know what.

My current tool list entails: M18 Angle Grinder M18 Impact Driver M18 Combi M18 SDS M18 Multi tool

Anything else you guys would recommend? Looking at maybe swapping the M18 Impact for an M12 but aside from that any ideas?