After working in the Electrical Service sector for 30 yrs., I thought nothing else could surprise me until I was asked by the Marketing Rep., if I could write a blog about the most common electrical repairs requested by our customers. “Write a blog”, I asked? “I know nothing about writing a blog however I will certainly give it a shot.” I answered.
There are actually two categories in which repairs would fall into; Commercial Electrical – most common building/maintenance electrical repairs and secondly, Industrial Electrical – main distribution electrical/downstream distribution electrical/electrical maintenance and electrical equipment repairs.
Electrical lighting repairs – quite simply requiring lamp and ballast replacements; when lights would go out or start to provide insufficient light (due to ageing) they would require service repair. Outside lighting is often overlooked in the summer due to longer daylight hours, then winter comes and of course an influx of service calls for lighting repairs to light up and make safe for employees during the long winter hours.
Electrical breaker failure (tripped breaker) – far more extensive a tripped breaker could mean any number of problems. This reminds me of a service call I received (several years ago). The call was a breaker tripping periodically. Upon looking into the call checking the status/failure of the breaker, (electrical circuit which feeds a section of workstations) found nothing that would indicate the problem was in the breaker itself. Requiring further investigation I knew that the workstations in question needed to be sourced and inspected. Knowing that there could be any number of electrical wires/devices to look at within the workstations causing the breaker to trip, I had to crawl around on my hands and knees inspecting each station and all electrical outlets within, for any electrical deficiency. Ah.., yes, and there it was, a familiar burning smell, my nose lead me to find a heater tucked away out of sight under a desk. Cold feet; a frequent complaint in the winter requiring, the need for small personal heaters being plugged in to power bars and outlets. Unfortunately, these little heaters inevitably always would overload a breaker. A solution would be to provide an extra/separate electric circuit for these small incidentals.
Electrical Equipment Repairs – Varying degrees of electrical deficiencies and incidentals made for any number of daily electrical service calls. Most would indicate a lack of maintenance some indicating abuse or lack training on equipment and other just plain old fatigue/ageing of parts. In most cases electrical machine equipment repairs and of course the electrical distribution equipment providing power to the machine can be reduced with regular electrical planned maintenance. Like your car all electrical equipment should receive proper/regular maintenance. Increase the longevity of your electrical equipment with regular electrical maintenance power outages/equipment shutdowns can be reduced and eliminated as well as the costs of repairs being reduced by 30% all by completing any required repairs found by regular electrical maintenance. Frayed wires, damaged outlets, fatigued breakers and devices are all quick easy repairs that can be made during an electrical planned maintenance program avoiding the need to costly service calls.
Plan for your regular electrical maintenance today and save on costly service calls. Any type of electrical planned maintenance program for any facility (commercial electrical or industrial electrical) can be designed to your specific needs including; lighting maintenance (inside and outside) emergency lighting maintenance, machine maintenance, distribution equipment maintenance (main switchgear and downstream devices).
Electrical repairs should not be taken lightly, nor should they be serviced by anyone other than a licensed electrician. Remember electricity can kill, don’t play with someone’s life-hire a professional licensed electrician.
Dial One Wolfedale Electric Gives You the Power to plan your maintenance and reduce your service calls. Call now and avoid your next needless service call or electrical catastrophe.
Peter Dufour
Automation Manager/Project Manager
pdufour@dialonewolfedale.com
905-564-5677 ext 220
Dial One Wolfedale Electric
Giving You the Power
There are actually two categories in which repairs would fall into; Commercial Electrical – most common building/maintenance electrical repairs and secondly, Industrial Electrical – main distribution electrical/downstream distribution electrical/electrical maintenance and electrical equipment repairs.
Electrical lighting repairs – quite simply requiring lamp and ballast replacements; when lights would go out or start to provide insufficient light (due to ageing) they would require service repair. Outside lighting is often overlooked in the summer due to longer daylight hours, then winter comes and of course an influx of service calls for lighting repairs to light up and make safe for employees during the long winter hours.
Electrical breaker failure (tripped breaker) – far more extensive a tripped breaker could mean any number of problems. This reminds me of a service call I received (several years ago). The call was a breaker tripping periodically. Upon looking into the call checking the status/failure of the breaker, (electrical circuit which feeds a section of workstations) found nothing that would indicate the problem was in the breaker itself. Requiring further investigation I knew that the workstations in question needed to be sourced and inspected. Knowing that there could be any number of electrical wires/devices to look at within the workstations causing the breaker to trip, I had to crawl around on my hands and knees inspecting each station and all electrical outlets within, for any electrical deficiency. Ah.., yes, and there it was, a familiar burning smell, my nose lead me to find a heater tucked away out of sight under a desk. Cold feet; a frequent complaint in the winter requiring, the need for small personal heaters being plugged in to power bars and outlets. Unfortunately, these little heaters inevitably always would overload a breaker. A solution would be to provide an extra/separate electric circuit for these small incidentals.
Electrical Equipment Repairs – Varying degrees of electrical deficiencies and incidentals made for any number of daily electrical service calls. Most would indicate a lack of maintenance some indicating abuse or lack training on equipment and other just plain old fatigue/ageing of parts. In most cases electrical machine equipment repairs and of course the electrical distribution equipment providing power to the machine can be reduced with regular electrical planned maintenance. Like your car all electrical equipment should receive proper/regular maintenance. Increase the longevity of your electrical equipment with regular electrical maintenance power outages/equipment shutdowns can be reduced and eliminated as well as the costs of repairs being reduced by 30% all by completing any required repairs found by regular electrical maintenance. Frayed wires, damaged outlets, fatigued breakers and devices are all quick easy repairs that can be made during an electrical planned maintenance program avoiding the need to costly service calls.
Plan for your regular electrical maintenance today and save on costly service calls. Any type of electrical planned maintenance program for any facility (commercial electrical or industrial electrical) can be designed to your specific needs including; lighting maintenance (inside and outside) emergency lighting maintenance, machine maintenance, distribution equipment maintenance (main switchgear and downstream devices).
Electrical repairs should not be taken lightly, nor should they be serviced by anyone other than a licensed electrician. Remember electricity can kill, don’t play with someone’s life-hire a professional licensed electrician.
Dial One Wolfedale Electric Gives You the Power to plan your maintenance and reduce your service calls. Call now and avoid your next needless service call or electrical catastrophe.
Peter Dufour
Automation Manager/Project Manager
pdufour@dialonewolfedale.com
905-564-5677 ext 220
Dial One Wolfedale Electric
Giving You the Power
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