Electrical Work We’ve Done Around Kosciusko County

We make all of our control boxes in house. That line has been on our website for years, and this is what it looks like.

This one runs a commercial grain elevator. Open the door and every motor in the system has its own starter, its own overload and its own printed label: bin blowers, bin sweeps, the leg, the upper cross conveyor, load augers, unload augers, fill and screen. They’re wired to start in the right order and to stop each other when they have to, so grain can’t be moved into a bin nothing is running under.

Every circuit is numbered. The wiring is color-coded by phase. The label strip runs under every starter in the box. If something trips during harvest at two in the morning, whoever is standing in front of it can find the problem without hunting for a drawing.

That’s the reason to build it here instead of ordering it. We design it, wire it and test it, and when it needs looking at, we’re twenty minutes down the road rather than three states away.

More on this kind of work on our custom controls page, and more grain work on our agriculture page.

When the power goes out in a closed poultry barn, the clock starts. The fans stop, the air stops moving, and the birds inside are the ones paying for it.

The generator carries the whole barn at once, so nothing gets staged and nothing waits its turn. It doesn’t feed the barn through one connection, though. The building is split across six automatic transfer switches, each carrying its own part of it and switching over on its own. The first is labeled for the fans and the electric room, which tells you the building’s priority even though everything comes back together.

The rest of it is what you’d expect underneath: the main gear, the feeders out to each switch, and the conduit runs tying it together, all of it sized so nothing is working at its limit on the worst night of the year.

This is the kind of job where the electrical either matters enormously or not at all, and you don’t find out which until the power is already off. More on our generator installation and agriculture pages.

A campground owner called us about one of his sub-meters. The reading hadn’t changed in months and the bill came in the same every time, summer and winter. He figured the meter was bad or something was wrong in the wiring.

He was right. We went through the meter bank and found the meter dead, not registering anything at all.

We had a replacement with us, so it went in that day and the readings started again straight away.

See more of what we do around the lakes on our North Webster page.

We did the electrical for the Crazy Egg out on Old 30, from rough-in through finish.

This was the same trade in a different building: kitchen wiring for the line and the coolers, power and lighting through the dining room, the point-of-sale and beverage stations, and the connections for the hood and the rooftop units.

Restaurants run their equipment every hour they’re open, and when something electrical fails, the lost night costs them more than the repair. That’s the standard the work gets built to.