Stuff Electricians Should Know!

In todays episode I'll cover 10 terms that you have probably never heard of. 

When you get in to any industry they seem to have their own language. 

The electrical industry is no different.

It has it's own language.

Today I'll cover theses 10 terms:

*Chinese Money
*Bug
*BX Cable
*Greenfield
*Periscope
*Hard Head
*Kool Aid
*Keyless
*Eyes
*Rabbit Gun

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Welcome to "Stuff Electrician's Should Know" my name is Jon Workman, your host, and welcome back to another episode of SESK.

Before we get started I just want to tell you about "Rules For Electricians", a new book that I put together that I'm excited get into your hands. It's 100 rules for electricians that can help a help you in your daily activities, help you in your job, basically just some the written rules, some of the unwritten rules that are that are now written that are there to help you.

Go to www.rulesforelectricians.com and you can get your calloused, work soil hands on your very own copy. 

Let's get in today's topic "3 myths about project management"

On the last episode of SESK, you remember we got into project management a little bit, and this week I want talk about 3 myths concerning project management that sometimes the little guys allow  to get in their way.

So let's just jump into the first myth.

The first myth about project management is that you have to have a big company for project management to even be necessary, and that is great lie. Even if you are a one man band learning how to manage a project properly is going to absolutely change your business.

Company size doesn't really matter. There's always a customer and end user and you've got to get the job done. You've gotta get done what they need done to make them happy for you to get a pay check.

It really doesn't matter even if it's simply changing out receptacles in an old house, you still want to do the best job you can for your customer, and that way you'll have a better chance of having them be repeat customers and hopefully lifelong customers.

You know, there might be a little bit of an advantage to being a smaller guy actually, you're more versatile, you can do a lot more things, but you still need to operate by sound principles and know how to to manage the jobs that you do get. 

The second myth is that you have to have a big job to need management. Job size is really just an issue of relativity. You know it's all relative. Everything's just relative. If you're a one man show then a $10000 job might be a big job to you.

If you're a multimillion dollar contracting company your $10000 job may not even be worth looking at for you. But it's all it's all relative.

But every job basically has the same framework. The four B's. You're bidding, you're buying, you're building, and you're billing. You're doing these four things no matter what size the job is. So you you just need to make sure that you know how to do these things. You still have to be efficient in all the things that you do.

The the small jobs especially, for smaller contractors, are just as important as a big jobs.

Myth number three. We've talked about not needing to be a big company, or that it doesn't have to be a big job, and the last thing is that the job doesn't have to be worth a lot of money to to warrant knowing how to manage project. The money amount doesn't matter. It goes back to efficiency. The more efficient you are the more money you can make.

The biggest thing about the dollar amount is that on the smaller jobs the little mistakes hurt more than on the bigger jobs. So that is one more piece of motivation for you to to learn how to manage a project. If you are on a smaller job and start making a bunch of small mistakes it's going to end up costing you a bigger portion of the pie.

Thanks again for listening to this episode of "Stuff Electricians Should Know". Once again, just reminder head over to www.rulesforelectricians.com to get your hands on a copy of my new book "Rules For Electricians" Volume one.

Thanks again for tuning in. Hopefully you are having a great week glad to be back with you this week and until next time I'm Jon Workman, Stay Grounded.

Today I'll cover 6 mistakes you want to avoid when it comes to project management.

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In this episode we cover a quick VFD case study to show how effective VFD's can be. 

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Okay, so in the last episode I introduced you briefly to VFD's, and kind of discuss what they did. So this week, why don't we dive into how a VFD actually works. So let's start talking about the motor that you're going to be controlling for, for just a second. You know the motors that you're going to control with the VFD are three phase. You're not going to use a VFD to control a single phase motor. Now, a lot of these motors are designed to be operated and run at a fairly consistent speed. You're not going to have a lot of ups and a lot of downs, but the motors are going to be bogged down a lot with different loads. You might have a conveyor that's got a really light load to begin with and it can kind of gets bogged down during the day.

So a VFD analyzes load variations and then it increases or decreases the motor speed automatically to kind of compensate for, for what's happening.