Residential Troubleshooting & 2017

Residential electrical troubleshooting takes years of experience to make it appear easy but there is nothing easy to any of the problems and issues that were discovered in 2016. 

The worst of the worst was an entire 2nd floor of a home that had over 40 openings (lights & outlets) on a single 120 volt 20 amp circurit breaker feeding 3 bedrooms, hall ways & stairway and an upstairs bathroom. The client's request was it worked once make it work again. No matter what type of  quick fix on these issues it will always be a accident waiting to happen as it is entirely unsafe and over loaded. Needless to say the breaker box was full of tandem style circuit breakers the type where you remove one circurit breaker and make it two with a tandem style circurit breaker. What people do not realize by doing this is that they are doubling up the Heat Factor on the buss bar on the same circurit breaker location. All this nightmare electrical wiring harness had worked fine for over 30 years and the client was steadfast that it should work again for another 30 years and that no upgrade was needed.

Another troubleshooting issue with a different client was a outside weatherproof box under the utility meter that had no Main Break protection. Even with all the circurit breakers in the OFF position the buss bar still had live electrical power. The only way to de energize the buss bar was to remove the utility meter from it's socket. If someone who did not have the knowledge or skills and was trying to perform a repair they could be seriously hurt or killed with this outdated electrical wiring.

One of the most interesting request came from a client that said that they had to touch the switch and outlet face plate to make the bathroom lights/outlet operate along with 2 other rooms with lights and outlets that were going off and on with this operation. They insisted that they wanted one of those new GFCI outlets installed by the bathroom sink when the problem was fixed. (Needless to say in in most new residential wiring the bathroom outlet is on a dedicated circuit breaker to supply electrical power to the hair dryers, curling irons and others devices that are all going at once)

2016 saw it's challenges and jigsaw puzzles of residential electrical issues and we look forward to 2017 along with many more older electrical issues with new and existing clients far and wide.

Our approach to 2017 as always is honesty, integrity and dependability. Quality craftsmanship and services that are safe and efficient with no short cuts is not forgotten here at D B Electric. Our approach is an onsite meeting to discover and troubleshoot whats going on and to gather the required information to prepare a Punch List of what's wrong and how to fix it with client approval. D B Electric has a one hour minimum along with mileage to your address for this service that is Invoiced by email for payment prior to arrival. Our TimeTrade scheduling links lets clients pick their own date and time that they want this onsite service performed. https://www.timetrade.com/book/5565L

The TimeTrade confirmation number is also the client's Invoice number for billing that can be completed by either PayPal or Square services for Invoicing and Payments.

Thank you for a great 2016 and looking forward to servicing your electrical needs in 2017

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Extreme Off Grid Electrical

     Extreme weather conditions can not stop the production of off grid alternative AC electrical energy if proper design is taken into consideration. PLC (programmable logic controller) that controls computer controlled software applications like the SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition). Alternative AC electrical  power needs countless onsite maintenance for solar panels like dust,snow free. SCADA is a PLC control system that can control and monitor electrical systems and is a proven work horse for utilities worldwide. This same software can be scaled down for any off grid electrical power usage and production.

     2016 has seen some great worldwide solar & wind projects completed that have out paced coal electrical production. Many new off the shelf products like water less solar panel brush tract cleaners, KW to KV transformers with idle time savings up to 40% and a host of new grid quality off the shelf products like lithium ion battery banking from some big time market players. Which are now being used by grid tied utilities making many MV electrical voltage  just 1 MV = 100,000 volts of electrical energy. By charging on off peak hours and bring online during high demand useage. They are discovering many new advantages like stableasastion to their grid tied systems by this battery banking tecknowledgey.

     Mixing and matching  high quality off the shelf products from various vendors worldwide and assembled into any required operating load for electrical AC power source in either single or 3 phase with many voltage options in either 50 or 60 hertz. by mixing solar, wind and whatever other alternative electrical power source together. This mixing and mingling is called microgrid electrical power SCADA PLC controlled. 

Mini microgrid is grid quality pure sinewave AC off grid electrical power that can take 48 volt DC or any DC voltage and turn it into 7200 volts AC for many onsite residential and commercial off grid  electrical energy needs and demands. Parallel stacking can increase amperage output for any required onsite load demand. Stable reliable switching transfers of AC electrical power so fast that clock or computer rests are not required. It never has been as easy than it is today to make free electrical power from alternative electrical energy.

Looking to connect with New Clients, Contacts & Followers in 2017

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016 To Each New & Existing Client, Contact 

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D B Electric 

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Electric Grid Tied Residential Troubleshooting

Service call from client asking why am I having electrical issues like tripping circuit breakers and buzzing and humming going on at Main Breaker Panel?

This type of cable whether copper or aluminum conductors has either a cloth or plastic covering and when age and weather takes it toll and removes this protection. It is time to consider upgrading the grid tied weather head to utility connection cable cable along with doing a wattage assessment of current and future wattage loads.

Most residential customers have no idea what their actual wattage loads are they just pay their monthly utility Kwh billings and it is business as usual with their electrical power needs. In short a residential wattage load is the wattage it takes to operate a device, example a 60 watt 120 volt light bulb. Now continue onward and add and total every appliance, device, and 120 and 240 volt load that a residential customer's draws off their utility grid aka Wattage Load Report.

After finding the total wattage load numbers then it is understandable why these older grid tied service's are failing for the overloaded loads that they are trying to operate. Electrical power is no more than a lot of numbers mixed, matched and designed into an operating systems aka it's all in the numbers if properly designed to do so.

The cooler you can run most electrical devices the more efficient it takes to operate usually is a agreed theory concerning electrical power. If original circuit breakers are loaded to the maximum opening allowed or were not followed by openings allowance than once again it is no wonder older electrical wiring faults are occurring. Trying to start a electrical motor and compressor for a refrigerator takes more electrical power at startup than it does during the running cycle, if this circuit breaker is already loaded with other loads than it is lagging and starving the refrigerator on startup. And it is also generating more heat in the motors and compressors during this startup and is not being efficient.

Leaving a 20% reserve in a new designed systems gives a cushion on Main Breaker residential loads. Meaning take wattage loads and design them to operate the Main Breaker to only 80% of breaker rating capacity operating no higher than that and leaving 20% in reserve. Deadcating circuit breakers for individual wattage loads like refrigerators, freezers and washing machines and other high demand startup devices like HVAC . Makes these appliance operate more efficiently saving on monthly electrical billing.

If your old grid tied electrical service is having issues we have the knowledge and years of quality craftsmanship to solve any original wiring issue. Book a time and date for an onsite meeting

Thank you for your time

D B Electric
www.elecwired@live.com
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