Industrial Electrical Work

Three-phase services and feeders. Main distribution gear, panels and sub-panels, laid out so that the next thing added has somewhere to go rather than being wedged in.

Where the utility’s three-phase does not reach, we install phase converters so a plant on a single-phase service can still run three-phase machines. Out in the county that comes up more than people expect.

Motor circuits, starters, disconnects. VFDs and motor drives — installed, wired and tested.

Machine hookups when new equipment lands: getting power to it, and getting it running. New equipment arrives more often than anybody plans for, and it rarely lands where the last one was.

We have done the electrical for a whole ammonia refrigeration machine room — the compressors, the motors and starters, and everything else in the room that runs on power.

A machine room is not a normal industrial space. The equipment is somebody else’s trade and it arrives with its own requirements, the room has rules about what can be in it, and the plant does not stop while you work. The refrigeration is the refrigeration contractor’s. Everything electrical in that room was ours.

That included the ammonia detection. In a room like that, detection decides whether anybody can be in there at all, and it has to be wired so it still works on the day everything else has gone wrong.

If you have a room like that and you are trying to find somebody local who will not be out of their depth in it, that is the reason to call.

Infrared scanning. A connection running hot shows up on a thermal scan long before it shows up as a shutdown, and a scan happens with the plant running.

That is the low-commitment way to start: one walk-through, and you know what you are dealing with.

Three things account for most of the electrical downtime we get called out to in a plant, and all three are cheaper to find on a Tuesday than at two in the morning.

Lugs and terminations torqued to the manufacturer’s spec. A termination that was tightened by feel and never checked will hold for years and then back off a fraction under thermal cycling. That is where the heat comes from, and it is the bright spot the infrared scan picks up. We check it against the printed number, with a wrench.

Motor connections. Vibration and repeated starting current do things to a connection at a motor that nothing in a lighting circuit ever does. They get looked at as part of the same pass.

Starters that are getting weak get replaced before they strand a motor. Pitted contacts, chattering, dropping out under load: a starter rarely fails cleanly. It degrades, and every start in that condition is harder on the motor than the one before. Replacing it is a scheduled hour. Losing the motor is not.

More on how this is done in maintenance.

High bay lighting and LED retrofits for spaces where the fixtures are thirty feet up and changing one is an event. Exit and emergency lighting with monthly and annual testing, documented.

Retrofits in a plant usually come with a utility rebate. We will help with the paperwork, though the filing is yours.

If an outage costs you a shift, or a batch, standby power is a conversation worth having before it happens rather than after. We install standby generators with automatic transfer switches.