BY KRISTEN WICKS NETA Each year NETA’s President is given the difficult task of selecting one of NETA’s many volunteers as the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award. This person demonstrates selflessness, drive, dedication, loyalty, and leads by example. This person is someone who balances family, friends, work, and philanthropy on a knife’s edge and

BY TODD MARTIN, Basler Electric Company       Updating Switchgear Relays Electromechanical overcurrent relays such as the IAC and CO are the historical backbone of power system protection. These relays use delicate mechanisms and precision components to develop their operating characteristics and are subject to misoperation and failure resulting from contamination, corrosion, and simple aging.

Safety In general, any outdoor activity in bad weather constitutes a risk and should not be performed without a thorough risk assessment and appropriate authorization. A severe risk is posed by lightning. Doble Engineering does not recommend testing in any situation where lightning is a present or an imminent threat. Equipment Status and Motivation for

Article Written By Jill Howell, NETA In the early 1970s, there were few standards for electrical testing. NFPA had authorized a committee in 1968 to create NFPA 70B, Recommended Practice for Electrical Equipment Maintenance. This standard addressedelectrical equipment maintenance practices. It also touched on acceptance testing, advised on equipment, type of tests, and how often

If you have had a power system or arc flash study done recently using Captor/Dapper software then you may have a potentially serious problem that needs to be addressed. It has come to our attention that SKM does not factor in breaker lug ratings when THHN wire is modeled. THHN wire has a rating of

Backup Generators have been installed at a great many commercial and industrial sites in the past decade.    One of the NEC requirements that is often overlooked for standby generators is the requirement for ground fault sensing and alarm.  Engineers, consultants, contractors and inspectors have consistently missed this obscure code requirement and as result a hazard exists for standby generator owners

BELVIDERE — A man whose severe neck wound was bound by black electrical tape has been released from the hospital, Sheriff David Gallant said today, April 9. The man, a 45-year-old Montague man, was riding an ATV on April 3 when he struck an electric fence. The man’s companion told officers that the victim had been

A subcontractor was working on my neighbors 12 foot high garage door and the ladder slipped out from underneath him.   I heard a tremendous crash and a person moaning in agony.       It was a tripod type ladder used for pruning tall trees.     The pipe slid on the smooth garage

Dear Customer, Last week we were invited to Rosendin Electric Corporate Headquarters for a Lunch and Learn regarding our new estimating tool called Testimator™.   Over 20 estimators from Rosendin attended the meeting and here is what they had to say in their feedback forms: Great!  I have already used the program Seems like a very

Definition An arc flash is the light and heat produced from an electric arc supplied with sufficient electrical energy to cause substantial damage or harm, fire or injury. Electrical arcs, however, fed by limited energy and well controlled, produce very bright light (as in arc lamps—enclosed, or with open electrodes), and are also used for