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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Master of the NEZ podcast, the ultimate

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destination for anyone passionate about the electrical trade. Whether you're

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a season electrician and eager apprentice, or just someone who

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wants to dive deep into the world of electrical work,

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You've come to the right place.

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Speaker 2: Join your host, Paul.

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Speaker 1: Abernavi, a true authority in the industry with over thirty

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eight years of trade experience, as he electrifies your mind

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within depth discussions, expertips, and valuable insights that will keep

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you ahead of the curve. Each episode, Paul will illuminate

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the complexities of the trade, decode the national electrical code,

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and share the latest industry trends, all while empowering you

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to take your electrical career to the next level. So

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gear up, plug in, and get ready to supercharge.

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Speaker 2: Your knowledge because with the Master of the NEC.

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Speaker 1: Podcast, the power is in your hands. Now get ready.

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Here is your host, Paul Abernavi.

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Speaker 2: What up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of Master the

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NEC Podcast. My name is Paul Abernathy and I am

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your host of the show that helps electricians, contractors, inspectors

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and electrical professionals stay sharp, stay focused, stay informed, keeps

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you ahead of the curve when all things electrically related,

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and so thank you for taking the time out of

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your day to join me here on the podcast. Hopefully

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you're going to get something out of the day's podcast

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in today's episode is sponsored by thermal Electrician dot com,

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which is our certification program for all electricians who want

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to become very proficient with thermography that's specific to electrical applications. Okay,

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home inspectors, other inspectors do things building envelope stuff. We

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focus this program focuses very specifically on thermal imaging as

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it is for electrical applications and again understanding the different

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nuances for terminations and ratings and all that kind of stuff.

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And so that is who sponsored today's podcast. And so

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if you're thinking about becoming a thermal inspector for electrical

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if you're thinking about adding thermal imaging to your electrical

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contracting business, all those type of things in our program

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can literally help you and you might as well get

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certified while you're at it. So that's what our program does,

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So check it out at thermal electrician dot com. We'd

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love to have you all right well in that same mode,

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today's episode is entitled why every electrical contractor needs a

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thermal imaging camera and how it will transform your service

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business because there are a lot of misconceptions out there

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when it comes to thermal imaging. I'll give you my brother,

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for example, been electrician for damn near fifty years, has

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never used a thermal imaging camera in his practice. He's

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done a lot of troubleshooting, He's done a lot of

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things that's maybe took a lot more time to find

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the problem than maybe it would have if he had

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a thermal imaging camera. And so again, it's not a

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new concept. It's not you know, something that's you know,

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just now coming onto the industry. It's been around for

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a while. The only difference is is it now we're

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thinking of it in a totally different light in the

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sense that there is a lot of people that think

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they understand thermography and they really don't, and they may

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cry wolf, they cause problems, they may be misleading people,

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and you know, at the end of the day, it's

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like with anything. When you're learning the National Electrical Code,

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you want to be as thorough as possible and have

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the best resources as possible. Well, we think that the

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course that we put together on the thermal electrician is

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the best out there. So if you're interested in getting

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a certification in that, this is gonna be a good

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episode for you from electrician standpoint, because we're gonna talk

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about a lot of things that you may not even

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think about, and so we're going to kind of dig

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into that. So it's really not a situation, it's it's

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really about why every electrical contractor out there. You have tools,

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you have meters, you have clamp on airprobes, you have

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all kinds of stuff, but every electrician out there should

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have a thermal imaging camera in their toolbox. And today

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they are so freaking affordable. And with our new partnership

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with Mousey, you can get the best professional grade thermal

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imaging camera at the best possible prices through us, And

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we're excited about that partnership and we're gonna be their

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exclusive educator and we're going to exclusively promote their thermal

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imaging cameras. And so you were to see a lot

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of collab between us and them because we believe that

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that's what it takes. It needs expert training to fully

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understand how our thermal imaging camera works. So it's every

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electric contractor should at least have a thermal imaging camera

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in their toolbox. And they're not all created equal. Okay,

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So again we're more than happy to help talk you through.

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and we can help you with that most certainly. Just

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check us out at Thermal Electrician dot com. Or of

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course you can go to the parent company Electricalcode Academy

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dot com orfasttrackssystem dot com and reach out to us

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that way. Even use the Let's Ask Paul if you

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want to ask more detailed questions, feel free. We're more

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than happy to help you. So today, for electricians in

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what they learn, part of all learning should be even

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in vocational school now they should be curriculum now on

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thermal imaging, and we have a program that we can

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put right into a vocational school. Just reach out to us.

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that what you need and it's it's amazing if you

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use it properly what you can actually do with it.

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something that we do that that's not you do. Sometimes

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it should become a standard part of your professional toolkit.

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that is times have changed. We always as electricians, we

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end up going to projects after stuff is failed, when

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we may be there for one reason and we can

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head off of another problem by simply offering the customer

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in evaluation. And we're already there. So we're not just

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talking about property maintenance. We're not just talking about prevented maintenance.

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talking every day residential all the way up to large

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scale commercial. You need at least somebody in your company

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that understands thermal imaging. Again, it's not just as simple

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as looking at a color palette and saying, oh, that's hot,

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that's going bad. That is not true. Okay, So again

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a lot of misleading information on there. Now, what we're

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going to do here in this podcast today, hopefully you

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listen to it, is that we're going to introduce a

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little bit of seventy B requirements because that's becoming something

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that's very important now, not just inn FPA seventy but

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seventy B starting to rear its head. Okay, especially for

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maintenance and existing systems. We're going to talk about how

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to create proper loading because there are aspects of seventy

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and how you may do that on a simple service

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call and it's easier than you think. Okay, we're going

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to talk a little bit about residential and commercial applications

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how you would apply this. We're also going to talk

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about something that people don't think about, and that is

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the ice squirt are heating and the failures that are

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just waiting to be a problem. Now this is not

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just in residential, this is commercial. This is why you

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do preventative maintenance because sometimes looking at something you can't

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really see the full story of what's going on. And

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into a program like ours and you learn things like emissivity,

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and you realize that the front of the breaker that's

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plastic is not exactly telling the story about what's going

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on behind the breaker, and because of the material that

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you're measuring on, whether it's something that's giving a reflection,

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that's giving false readings, or the emissivity value is very

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low versus very high, which means it's going to give

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you a more accurate reading to hire. It is if

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you don't understand these things, if you don't understand all

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of those nuances, then you could be crying wolf. But

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you also can be very preventive. And if you're on

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a service call, there are things that you can do

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that will actually help your customer and you're not selling

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snake oil. You're actually selling them something that can save

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them a lot of money down the road if you

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can find the problem now, and that can be so

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we'll talk a little bit about thermal diagnostics and how

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that increases your profitability as a shop owner, as an electrician,

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and it also gives you a skill set that you

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can use in your job interviews and how you go

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from company to company or if you grow your own

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and also why it's essentially mastering the skills is essential

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today for modern electricians. It's essential that you understand not

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just how to look at a color palette on a

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thermal imaging camera, but understand truly what is going on

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in that color palette, how to change again things like emissivity,

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how do a quantitative versus a qualitative review, how to

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do peer review? Look at two different points on a

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thermal imaging camera, and come to a peer review understanding

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of what's going on, how the load is transitioning through

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things like contact versus fuses versus disconnects. This is some

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intricate stuff and it's not just getting a camera, but

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truly understanding how it works. And really, every electrician has

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a pair of clients. Every electrician has drills. Every electrician

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needs to have a thermal imaging camera and they need

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to understand how to use it. Now here's the big

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difference between us. Okay, this is I'm gonna be real

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with you. You're not gonna spend two thousand dollars three

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thousand dollars taking a full fledged thermogra thermography course because

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you don't need it as an electrician. You want your

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training to be focused. We are offering the world's only

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specific thermography course dedicated just to electricians. Now, there are

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other courses that offer thermography from the electrical aspects of it,

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but they don't get into the details like we do.

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aware of and what to look for. We also, they

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you can get thermography certified Level one, Level two, level three.

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down and created a program just for electricians. Now, you

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accrediting body for certification when it comes to thermal imaging

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and thermography, especially the electrical But the fact that you

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are a licensed electrician, your electrical professional already gives you

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a leg up because of licensure. And then we as

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a corporation, throw onto that very specific training that is

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detailed specifically, and it's meeting all the equivalencies of other

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testing authorities in our program so that we meet or

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exceed the voluntary standards of the industry. But there's no

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licensing requirement nowhere, So don't be fooled by that. What's

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the difference between our program is it's designed specifically to

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give you the electrician. Now, if you're going to be

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a home inspector, or you're going to be a building

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envelope guy or gal. If you're going to go on

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to do those type of things, then by all means,

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there's a great programs out there. They can get you

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to that level two in level three for that building

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envelope type stuff. That is not what we're here for.

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I'm an electrician. I teach electricians. Electrical contractors need to

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understand how to troubleshoot things, how to use these thermal

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imaging cameras in their business, how electricians use them. I'm

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not interested in leaky water. I'm not interested in those

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type of things. We're only training electricians. There's a difference, folks.

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Our programs are designed for electricians. Google me, Google Paul Abernathy,

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the Electrical Guru, or Paul Abernathi, Electrical Expert, and you're

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going to see we have whether you've never heard before.

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I am backed by a foundation of educational knowledge that

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serves on code making, panels, written books, done training for decades.

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I would not put out a course unless it was

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dedicated to teach you what you needed to know. And

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here's the other thing about our program. We're going to

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continually keep adding to it more and more and more.

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So once you're in our program. You become a member

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for life. You do not expire out of a program.

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Now will add updates and to keep your certification current,

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you have to take those updates, but they're included in

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your current course. So again, it's it's fundamentally important for

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me to for you to understand what we're trying to

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for electrical That's it. Nothing else, okay, all right, now,

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the electrical industry has shifted. Thermal imaging is no longer optional. Okay,

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the electrical literacy has already changed. A lot of contractors

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of thermography and how it could impact his business and

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time or find something in being proactive. Okay. So in

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today's electrical systems, they're more heavily loaded than ever before.

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we're adding all kinds of devices, all kinds of electronics. Yes,

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we're re loosing the footprint by more efficient luminairs and

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LEDs and things like that. But we're loading the systems

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up more with other things that are pushing our grid,

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like the evs and things like that. So we have

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to adapt to that loading situation, and so you've got

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more heavy loading than before. You have more people adding

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on to their existing structures in adding additional loads. We

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have a lot of systems that are filled with actually

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non linear type of equipment nowadays because of the different

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drivers and the LEDs and things that we're talking about,

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we're increasing this non linear and depending on the system's

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design or the system you're working with, that can create

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other potential issues with elevated heat that compounded over time

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that you need to be aware of or the customer

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needs to be aware of. Operating temperatures are getting hotter.

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Data center loading is getting hotter. Okay, residential applications things

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are getting more loaded than ever before and all the

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new stuff. My brother is wiring his house right now

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that's basically an electronic housi and he's got so much

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technology in there that when you start doing the load calculations,

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instead of thinking you're reducing it, you're increasing it and

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so it increases the size of the surface. But with

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that you have so many other loads that are in there.

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The other thing, again is more sensitive electronic equipment. The

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more sensitive they are, the more current they're going to draw.

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So you and and lastly, I guess aging we're seeing,

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you know, things that are aging in ways that we

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did not see. This happen twenty years ago. Older systems,

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conductors and devices and things were rated for things. Now

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the loads that are being put on systems that they

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were never initially designed for. Right, So, electrical failures almost

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never begin with an arc or a trip, folks, they

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begin with heat. The heat starts when you have circuit breakers,

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they have overloads, they have thermomagnetic trips, they have all

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these things, but they start. How many of you ever

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been to a project or job and seeing a breaker

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that looks perfectly fine only to have it fail and

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look behind it and see the whole back end of

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it's melted out. Right, that could have been an even

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bigger problem and my result in having to replace the

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bus instead of the bus bars inside of a panel.

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But you could have prevented that. So with that said,

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let's talk a little bit about understanding what's called I

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squared are heating. Okay, it's the silent destroyer. So when

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we're looking at this, it is I squared are equals

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current squared times the resistance. Why does this even matter, Well,

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it matters because even the smallest increase in resistance, a

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loose termination oxidation, something that wasn't properly torqued or overtrqued

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damage to the conductor depending on where you're at in

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the country. Again, heavy amounts of corrosion, all those type

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of things can lead even loose terminations. Just that in

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general can lead to heat rise because it increases the resistance,

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which causes more heat, which in turn increases the resistance again,

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and then the cycles accelerates over and over and over

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again to the point where it finally gets to what

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we call a thermal runaway effect. And it's the root

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calls of countless electrical failures, not just an industrial and

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commercial data centers, big commercial facilities, production facilities, but also

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in residential light commercial applications as well. The problem is,

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as electricians, by the time we move in in many cases,

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there's already an issue, and we may be thinking that

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we replace the breaker, solve the issue. However, it could

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have damaged the bus, and a thermal imaging camera can

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detect this and look at a little deeper than we

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could with the naked eye, because we'll be looking inside

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the infrared spectrum and understanding how to read a thermography

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report and not cry wolf in the process, but being

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able to give tangible information to the customer. Now here's

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what scares me the most. Okay, if you think about it,

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and again, having the electrical practice that I had for

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years and not thinking much about it, just being kind

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of reactive, fixing things as they as they break or

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as they burn up. I've been blessed that I haven't,

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you know, again, as an expert, and when I worked

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for the City of Alexandria, I got caught out on

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a lot of fire calls and looked at it and

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I saw things that were definitely due to damage that

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would have been detected by a thermal imaging camera. Now

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again it's the chicken or the egg. When did you

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get there? But there's many times when we have an

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opportunity to get in there, and then for a very

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savvy electrical contractor, they can sell a maintenance program or

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a bi annual or annual or monthly maintenance program on

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all of their service projects. You just have to be creative.

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But you're not selling snake oil. You're looking for possible issues.

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Now again, here's what scares me. A circuit breaker doesn't

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need a heavy load to fail. All it needs is resistance. Now,

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we've seen breakers that look perfect in the front, but

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behind them they're fully melted away. Back to the stabs. Okay, lugs,

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completely oxidized, conductors, annealed and discolored due to heat, insulation

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cooked in brittle, or if it's thermal plastic, it's actually

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dripping plasticizer which is regressing out of the insulating material,

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which gives it flexibility, which ultimately is going to reduce

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the thermal lifespan of that insulation because we didn't take

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loading into effect. But nobody knew these things until you

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start understanding the true thermal effects of overloading over current,

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mutual current, mutual heating. All these things. The panel looks normal,

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the breaker looks normal, there's no odor, there's no trip

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there's no indication of danger. It hasn't tripped off yet.

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But the thermal camera would have revealed a hotspot behind

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the breaker. An abnormal thermal pattern, a temperature rise inconsistent

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with the visible load, and a signature of a failure

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in progress. But you just looking at a bunch of

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color palettes may not understand this. It's just like anything.

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You should not be using a tool that you're not

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educated in. Now, that's all we're doing. I don't want

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to be a reseller of cameras, folks. We're signed a partnership.

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We're working with Miles, which is if you don't know

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who they are, google them. They are the leader in

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thermal imaging cameras around the world, not just in US

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but around the world. They make measuring devices as well.

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They make thermal optics for they make thermal optics for golf.

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But they are an amazing company with amazing technology that

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hold hundreds and hundreds of patents. You may have heard

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of just one big name here in the US, and

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they offer training, but that's internally to them. It's not

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genuine third party. So we don't want to be a manufacturer.

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This is why we approached Miles and said, you know what,

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you can't do what we do, and we have no

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desire to do what you do. But we know education,

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we know training, and you know thermal imaging cameras. Let's

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partner up and offer a third party, unbiased training program.

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And to be honest with you, you can get into

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our program and use any thermal camming thermal imaging camera

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you want. Now, we may offer you some good deals

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because of that partnership, but you don't have to buy

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our camera to get in our pro. You go to

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one of the other big names. They want you to

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use their cameras. We just want you to learn. That's

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the key. I want you to learn. I want you

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to do it right. So if you get a thermal

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imaging camera, whatever level you get it at, you need

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to do yourself to justice. And we have kept it

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so affordable in order to get a certification program and

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give you the information and the fact that you're not

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just one and done. What it means is we're going

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to continually to add modules to this program so that

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you always can go back in there and learn more stuff. Okay.

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So that is why when you walk into a service

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call without a thermal camera is like walking blindfolded into

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a room. Okay, the system is giving off early warning signs,

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but you can't see them unless you're trained and equipped

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for that. And that's exactly why thermal imaging has become

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essential under n FPA seventy B, especially with the new

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emphasis on thermal inspection in electrical preventative maintenance programs. So

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whether you're new to that or you understand it, or

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you're in commercial industrial which you already have a preventative

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maintenance program, it is become essential now under NFPA seventy

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B for you to understand it. So somebody in your

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program needs to understand it. The difference in our program

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is I am not going to weigh you down with

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the fluff of a building envelope in water migration and temperatures,

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whether you have insulating material, I could care crapless about that, folks.

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I am an electrician who trains electricians. I only care

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about electricians. That's why we built our program the way

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we did, and we think it's the best out there,

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hands down. I am biased at that, but that's what

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we built. Now let's talk a little bit more here.

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Let's let's go into understanding NFPA seventy B. And there's

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a requirement in NFPA seventy B to test things under

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loading or at the minimum of forty percent load. Now,

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let me make this clear. NFPA seventy B now makes

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it clear. It says to get meaningful thermal imaging data

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on electrical systems, you need a minimum of forty percent

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of the equipment's rated load. That's it. But I want

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you to remember a few things. Even in residential which

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you're outside of your scope of seventy B. Poor connections,

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poor terminations. Remember that I squared or effect in poor terminations.

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Over time, you could have a very little load running

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through a device and still have it generating abnormal heat.

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Why because of a poor connection with a high resistive

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point and it's just the waiting to fail and it

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may have very little load on it. That's very much

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a fact. So don't get drawn down the rabbit hole

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of saying, well, there's no way I could ever use

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a thermal imaging camera because I can't guarantee a forty

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percent loading in a residential application or even a commercial application.

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You know, I can do that for motors, I can

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do that for commercial equipment transformer loading. I could do

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all that, but you have to think bigger. You have

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to think outside of the box. Okay, Now, now, why

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would NFPA seventy B do that well. Because that threshold,

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small temperature rises may not show up clearly enough to

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be meaningful in the real world scenario. Now, in a

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residential scenario, a temperature rise over the mutual ratings or

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the mutual temperature of other breakers around, it's gonna make

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something stand out and gonna warrant further investigation. It's not

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the smoking gun, but it's gonna warrant that investigation. And

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the loading can be compounded with the fact that it

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is a high resistive point where there's a problem. But

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you know what, there are things that we can do

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even in a house, and you can be creative as

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a thermal electric a certified thermal electrician, right, so how

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can we do that? So it's very easy and commercial,

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it's very easy. In industrial, it's very easy for motors,

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and you know, just turn them on and load them up,

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let them run for ten to fifteen minutes, and then

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you can start doing measurements. Even if you're doing baselines,

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so that you have a baseline for annual inspections. Okay,

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even if you're just doing a a qualitative versus a

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quantitative you know, evaluation, you can get baseline information. But

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how do we do this for let's say, dealing with

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commercial or residential where we don't have consistent loading. Even

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though even again low loads over a poor termination can

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yield effective effective values when you're looking at it with

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the thermal imags, you can now let's assume not. So

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you ask yourself these questions as an electrician, this is

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where you get confusing for people. They go, Okay, how

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am I supposed to get forty percent load in a house?

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What if the customer isn't using anything? Do I just

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wait around for the loads to increase? No? No, you

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create your loads and it's not brain surgery. You're getting

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paid to do an evaluation by the hour. There's a

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lot you can do in this, Okay, and I'm gonna

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give you some tips. Okay, you create the load. Number one.

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You can use hair dryers, you can use toasters, you

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can use space heaters, you can use many ovens. You

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can use the clothes dryer. You can turn on vacuum cleaners,

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you can use microwave ovens. Okay, if it's a twenty

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bathroom circuit, you can put a hair dryer in it.

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You can use a space heater. You can create load

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boxes where basically just boxes with various types of I

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know one guy who took a box and he had

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three or four of the hair dryers in it, okay,

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and they blew out these vents. They put the end

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near vents, and they had vents in the side so

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air could move through it. But they had switches on

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the top that basically was a power strip underneath, and

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he could control how many hair dryers were on. And

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he used that as a load box and he would

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put he had a couple of them, he'd put them

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on different circuits and just let them run and he

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would check the circuits. He would go around, he would

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do the big stuff first while he loaded those up.

475
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,160
You can get hair dryers very cheap, Okay, they're not expensive.

476
00:29:16,599 --> 00:29:18,519
And he would load them up and he'd have four

477
00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:21,000
or five of them running on the general branch circuits.

478
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,359
Things like that. He would turn all the lights on, okay,

479
00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:26,240
and then what he would do is he'd turned the

480
00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:29,000
oven on, and then he would turn a microwave on.

481
00:29:29,839 --> 00:29:33,319
You know, he turn loads on and let things run

482
00:29:33,359 --> 00:29:37,240
for about ten fifteen minutes, right, and then he would

483
00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:40,400
start doing his evaluations in the panel. He would do

484
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,880
his evaluations that switches, okay. He would adjust emissivity as needed,

485
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,440
whether it's plastic or metal or whatever. And he was

486
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,960
well trained. But he created his own loading folks. Okay,

487
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,440
and you might say that's just too much work. It's not.

488
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,079
And if you're a professional, create what I call a

489
00:30:01,119 --> 00:30:05,480
load box and make it look very professional, have it

490
00:30:05,559 --> 00:30:08,640
designed pretty pretty nice. We're going to be working on

491
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,960
developing a load box that you can get from us

492
00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:15,279
that it's very professional. And you know, we're going to

493
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,200
use the basic understanding of hair dryers. We're going to

494
00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:21,839
create the box or the concept and maybe even give

495
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,880
you drawings on how to create your own. But it's

496
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:31,279
not brain surgery. Okay, how to do this and basically

497
00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:32,799
you could do it with the hair dryers. You just

498
00:30:32,839 --> 00:30:34,559
need to put it in something so the hair dryer's

499
00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:36,359
just not laying on the floor. It actually holds it

500
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,440
up and keeps it, you know, just in place so

501
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,079
that it's solid and you'll plug. You'll have various ones

502
00:30:42,119 --> 00:30:45,440
you plug into the different circuits. I recommend that for example,

503
00:30:46,319 --> 00:30:50,640
over toasters or anything like that, or space heaters. Hair

504
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,319
dryers simple typically they pull twelve to fifteen amps more

505
00:30:54,319 --> 00:30:56,759
than they're going to get that that for loading on

506
00:30:56,799 --> 00:30:59,720
the circuit to do your testing. But again, you may

507
00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:01,960
not even need it because some breakers just may have

508
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,480
a poor connection and it's going to elevate, it's going

509
00:31:04,519 --> 00:31:07,880
to stand out amongst the others in the panel. Folks,

510
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,880
there's a way to do this, and we train you

511
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,240
on that, right, But don't think that you, oh, well,

512
00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:16,279
I can't do this. There's no way I could know. No,

513
00:31:16,359 --> 00:31:20,759
you can, all right, So let's just use an example.

514
00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:22,839
If I have a twenty ant bathroom circuit, I want

515
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,720
to test it. I put on a hair drive. They

516
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,279
may even have a hair drive. Turn it on. It's

517
00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:29,480
twelve to fifteen amps. Instantly you're at one hundred and

518
00:31:29,519 --> 00:31:31,400
twenty five to one hundred and forty percent of a

519
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,960
usable load for diagnostic purposes. Now, if you're in a

520
00:31:36,079 --> 00:31:40,240
commercial environment, you can turn the HVAC system to call

521
00:31:40,279 --> 00:31:43,519
for cooling. You can energize the lighting circuits. You can

522
00:31:43,519 --> 00:31:47,160
start motors under controlled conditions. You can use portable heaters

523
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,160
as load or load banks. You can get load banks

524
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,960
as well that we use. You can enable equipment that

525
00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:57,799
is normally off, you can turn it on so NFPA

526
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:03,559
seventy b gave us the number. You as a professional,

527
00:32:03,759 --> 00:32:07,480
have to create the condition, and some people say that's

528
00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:10,720
just too much work. Well, you know what, we're here

529
00:32:11,359 --> 00:32:15,559
to evaluate systems, and you're loading the system up for

530
00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:18,960
that evaluation. If you're the electoral contractor that comes up

531
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,319
with a plan a structure on how to promote this

532
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,079
to your customers, how to head off possible issues in

533
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,759
aged homes or other homes for future, then you can

534
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,920
learn how that's going to be a marketing technique. And

535
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,400
maybe you do find something wrong in a system, or

536
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,359
maybe you don't, but you offer that service to your customer.

537
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,759
Now you may be able to go on a service

538
00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:40,640
call and you're there for fifteen minutes. You get paid

539
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,480
by the hour. You've got more time there to say

540
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,640
to them, would you like us to do a thermal evaluation.

541
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,119
We'll look at your terminations, we'll load it, we'll put

542
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,400
load banks on it. We'll see to make sure everything's

543
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:54,319
running good and not overheating. There's not a problem. All

544
00:32:54,359 --> 00:32:56,519
they can do is say yes or no. That's all

545
00:32:56,519 --> 00:32:59,799
they can do. But you really are looking for issues,

546
00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:03,119
not being a snake oil salesman, and if you also

547
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,039
are just doing the evaluation of a panel anyway, even

548
00:33:06,079 --> 00:33:08,319
if you've got your thermal camera. You should be doing

549
00:33:08,359 --> 00:33:12,279
that anyway, even if there's not evidence of loading. But

550
00:33:12,359 --> 00:33:14,319
you should do it to see if you have any

551
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,279
high resistive terminations that could be doing the I squared

552
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,000
R issue, that hidden heat issue that's maybe behind a

553
00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:24,839
breaker or at a poor termination. Okay, I'm just saying

554
00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:28,799
there's ways to do it. N FPA seventy B gave

555
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:32,519
you the foundation, but there is ways to achieve that. Now,

556
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,839
let's talk about the full scope of what thermal imaging

557
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,720
actually reveals. So most people think thermal imaging is just

558
00:33:41,319 --> 00:33:47,039
checking lugs, seeing hot breakers, finding loose connections. That that

559
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,880
is maybe twenty percent, if you will, of what a

560
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,440
thermal imaging program can do. Let's look at the other

561
00:33:53,559 --> 00:33:56,240
aspects of it. And you may even be familiar with

562
00:33:56,319 --> 00:33:59,240
things like it can see motors, you can see the

563
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,079
windings and see transformer windings. It can see all these

564
00:34:03,119 --> 00:34:04,880
type of things as well. But I want to tell

565
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,359
you something about thermal imaging that you need to understand.

566
00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:12,880
Thermal imaging can't see through walls and be accurate. Thermal

567
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,119
imaging is measuring the surface that you're putting the device onto,

568
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:20,519
that you're actually pointing the camera at at the appropriate distance,

569
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:26,159
understanding reflection and understanding emissivity, and positioning yourself to get

570
00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:29,559
the best possible result. It's not going to do you

571
00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:33,880
any good at looking trying to look through a wall. Okay,

572
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,280
that's only works on TV. Now when it comes to

573
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,679
motors and transformers, you can't see, you can't get into

574
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:42,039
the windings inside of the motor. So what you've got

575
00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:44,239
to remember is that the temperature on the outside of

576
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,239
the motor is going to be different than what's inside

577
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,280
the motor. So if the temperature on the outside is

578
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,559
very excessive, then you know that the temperature inside is

579
00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:54,079
way more than that and that's a potential problem. So

580
00:34:54,119 --> 00:34:58,679
you learn the nuances of evaluating things like that. But

581
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,480
a lot of people use thermal especially when they're initiating

582
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,440
an installation of a new motor. Let it run for

583
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,360
a while and do some baseline testing. You're going to

584
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:11,920
do thermal imaging of the actual frame and everything to

585
00:35:12,079 --> 00:35:17,079
record those values so that every month or every every

586
00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:19,719
six months or whatever, you're comparing what you have to

587
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,960
your baseline. So you're not getting into the windings, but

588
00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:26,960
you're getting the baseline from the housing. You're getting values,

589
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,599
and you're using that as a comparative comparative value as

590
00:35:31,639 --> 00:35:35,480
an ongoing maintenance procedure. And so if you see a

591
00:35:35,519 --> 00:35:38,199
sudden spike in the outside frame, which you know is

592
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,360
going to be not as hot as the core, but

593
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,760
you see this real spike in there that you're not

594
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,320
used to seeing, then you know something else is going

595
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,239
on in it. Furtheres some more evaluation. Ken, You're not superman,

596
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,639
but that's when we use baseline values in an ongoing

597
00:35:53,679 --> 00:35:56,000
preventative maintenance program. And you should be doing that on

598
00:35:56,039 --> 00:35:59,159
every data center, every every building that has a motor.

599
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,320
You should be recording these data. You should be keeping

600
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,840
it and use that as preventive maintenance. And that is

601
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:10,559
what the importance of seventy B is all about. So

602
00:36:11,679 --> 00:36:16,559
going into residential diagnostics because people, you know, people don't

603
00:36:16,559 --> 00:36:24,079
think about this, but thermal imaging exposes overloaded multi outlet circuits. Okay,

604
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:29,599
the loads aren't balanced properly. Okay, they could have installed

605
00:36:29,639 --> 00:36:32,079
them improperly, and so the neutrals getting more current than

606
00:36:32,119 --> 00:36:36,639
it should loose, backstabbed receptacles believe it or not, you

607
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:42,320
can detect that. You can see an elevated temperature spike. Yes,

608
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:49,239
overheated neutrals, high resistant connections, breaker stab heatings, bootleg neutrals,

609
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:55,239
multi wire brand circuit issues, overloaded kitchen small appliance circuits,

610
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,760
bundling in a panel that you may say, well, the

611
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,719
code says that's not an issue because it's not more

612
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:04,000
than twenty four inches, but there could be an evidence

613
00:37:04,039 --> 00:37:06,239
in there of such a higher that you're thinking of.

614
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,320
The code is one thing, but the reality is something's

615
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,800
gonna happen in those conductors that are in that bundle,

616
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,639
and maybe, as a prudent electrician, I need to space

617
00:37:16,679 --> 00:37:18,599
that out a little bit to allow some heat dissipation.

618
00:37:18,679 --> 00:37:22,199
It doesn't matter the code says that's okay, but a

619
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,320
practical thing is, you know, this is my client and

620
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,320
I need to make sure that they that this heat

621
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,679
is dissipated because this is abnormally high. And when you say, well,

622
00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:33,679
what's abnormally high, well, you know what the rating is

623
00:37:33,679 --> 00:37:37,079
of the insulation, right, Typically it's going to be ninety

624
00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:40,280
degrees c one hundred and ninety four degrees fahrenheit. Any

625
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,320
values you get much higher than that. Hello, it's just

626
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:50,079
a matter of time before you have potential breakdown. We

627
00:37:50,159 --> 00:37:52,679
know the code is the code, it's a minimum standard.

628
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,960
We follow it, but it's not perfect. Sometimes due to

629
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,480
your due diligence, you can find other problems waiting that

630
00:38:01,599 --> 00:38:04,480
the code might not have taken into consideration. And it

631
00:38:04,559 --> 00:38:07,360
does a good job bundling, It does a good job

632
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,199
of more than three current care conductors and adjustment of corrections,

633
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:14,000
but there is occasions where people don't understand the code

634
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,920
and they may not have applied it properly. And heat

635
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,559
is heat. You know, it's gonna be very evident. When

636
00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:24,480
you have current, you have conductors, and you have current

637
00:38:24,559 --> 00:38:27,760
running through it, you're gonna build heat. It just is

638
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,519
what it is. Now, what about service equipment and panels? Okay,

639
00:38:32,599 --> 00:38:36,360
Thermal cameras can reveal bus heating and improper bus a

640
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,079
bus that maybe has a connection point that's gone bad

641
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:41,719
and creates a high resistant it's not touching completely and

642
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,679
it's arcing creating a heat. You could have hot stabs

643
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,599
behind the breaker that are gone bad. Neutral bars heating

644
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:54,559
disproportionately due to possibly somebody doing something wrong in the

645
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:59,480
original installation. Hey, you could have parallel applications where they

646
00:38:59,519 --> 00:39:01,760
separate conductors and are taking it through is say, a

647
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,760
Ferris sidewalk, and so now they didn't run them properly.

648
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,320
They didn't follow the rules of paralleling properly, and now

649
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:17,559
you have heating that's taking place. That can be a problem,

650
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,400
big problem paralleling. You could have one conductor in a

651
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,679
parallel application it's pulling a lot more heat than the others,

652
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,440
and you're thinking, what the hell's going on. It's because

653
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,960
it's not balanced, it's not the same length, it doesn't

654
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,360
meet all the paralleling rules. But nobody caught it until

655
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,079
one day you catch it, and you see that that

656
00:39:33,119 --> 00:39:36,760
conductor is overheating, and eventually that conductor will break down

657
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,559
and take a system offline. Now you're thinking that it's

658
00:39:39,599 --> 00:39:42,559
not going to have it in residential No, but it

659
00:39:42,679 --> 00:39:44,679
very well could happen in a data center or a

660
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,840
large commercial building. That the uptime is the imperative importance.

661
00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:50,840
And you can be that person that checks that and

662
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,639
every data center. I don't care. I can tell you

663
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:57,039
right now, I did not make it to Folks know

664
00:39:57,119 --> 00:39:59,880
that I worked for on Krowire for over eleven years.

665
00:40:00,599 --> 00:40:03,000
I ended up at on cole Wire because of a

666
00:40:03,079 --> 00:40:06,480
data center issue that Daniel Jones pulled me into I

667
00:40:06,559 --> 00:40:08,920
worked for NIMA. I was able to find that the

668
00:40:09,159 --> 00:40:11,559
engineer that designed it designed it wrong. It was a

669
00:40:11,599 --> 00:40:14,639
thermal loading issue. It was causing products to melt down.

670
00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:17,039
If they had to use the thermal imaging camera and

671
00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:19,440
they had to understand the nuances of it, they could

672
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,480
have found this answer quickly until it started breaking down.

673
00:40:23,599 --> 00:40:27,159
It was an engineering design flaw. I found it and

674
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:31,760
that started my relationships with on Colewire. And finally Daniel

675
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:33,800
Jones said, you know what, I'm tired of you flying

676
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,000
out here to solve our issues with us. We appreciate it.

677
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,639
How about you come to work for us. And that's

678
00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:44,119
what started this whole thing, a multimillion dollar project issue

679
00:40:44,639 --> 00:40:47,199
that I made go away because I pointed out that

680
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,280
it was an engineering design. It wasn't a failure of

681
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:55,159
our wire. Huge Everybody should have a thermal imaging program

682
00:40:55,159 --> 00:40:59,199
in place and understand how to do it. That's important.

683
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:05,960
Meteor equipment, overheating, se cable insulation, temperature breakdown main loves

684
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:12,400
with developing resistance due to poor terminations, poor oxidation, improperly done.

685
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,639
How many times have we heard that old story where

686
00:41:14,679 --> 00:41:17,360
we look and we see that everything looks good, but

687
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,400
we find out that it was never torqued, so it

688
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,559
was loose. And when it's underload, that's when you get

689
00:41:23,559 --> 00:41:26,280
that I square at our issue. And as the heat

690
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:31,280
builds up due to current flow slowly over time, that

691
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,480
lug starts to heat up, and everything around it starts

692
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,719
to melt down, until finally, when things burn up, they

693
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,360
finally just burn up. I love when people say, hey,

694
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:42,000
it's been that way for twenty years. Well, houses are

695
00:41:42,039 --> 00:41:44,559
that way for twenty years, thirty years, forty years, until

696
00:41:44,559 --> 00:41:46,719
all of a sudden they burn down. Okay, when it happens,

697
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,119
it happens. No sense looking in the past. When we

698
00:41:49,199 --> 00:41:52,760
now have the ability to look at something and be preventative,

699
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,119
we can take action up front to review things. We

700
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,760
never could do that before. And even when thermal imaging

701
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:05,000
was in its infancy, people did not understand how to

702
00:42:05,119 --> 00:42:08,960
bet the vastly utilize it, especially in our electrical trade.

703
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,800
Originally it was great for thermal imaging building envelopes, energy

704
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,519
making a system's energy efficient when it comes to buildings

705
00:42:17,639 --> 00:42:19,800
envelopes and get into the energy codes and all this

706
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,000
kind of stuff. Yes, you're taught in all these programs,

707
00:42:23,079 --> 00:42:26,159
the electrical, but that's just one piece. That's what we

708
00:42:26,199 --> 00:42:29,679
focus on. And by the way, our course is usually

709
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:33,159
a third or less of what those programs are because

710
00:42:33,159 --> 00:42:35,800
we're not gonna teach you those things because they're unnecessary

711
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,400
for what you do is for a living. That's what

712
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:44,519
we want to focus on. What else, how about transformers,

713
00:42:44,559 --> 00:42:48,239
small or large transformers. You can detect overloading in the transformer,

714
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:53,440
the windings, internal winding issues, temperature variations at certain points

715
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,960
in the windings. It could be a problem with the winding.

716
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,880
It's not consistent across the winding itself, which it should

717
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:04,039
be if it's evenly connected and evenly loaded. You have

718
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:09,280
the terminal heating, you have cooling fan or airflow problems.

719
00:43:09,599 --> 00:43:11,840
You'll notice that the heat seems to be segregated in

720
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,079
one area, so you're not getting good airflow through a

721
00:43:15,159 --> 00:43:18,880
transformer if it has an internal blower. There's so many

722
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,480
things also, phase imbalances when it comes to the transformer

723
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,440
not doing things properly or going to be evident because

724
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,519
you know what, you're not going to hide the increased

725
00:43:27,559 --> 00:43:30,199
resistance which is going to yield higher heat, and that's

726
00:43:30,199 --> 00:43:35,559
going to be projected onto the conductor and determination, and

727
00:43:35,599 --> 00:43:41,079
you cannot see this with a naked eye. What about motors?

728
00:43:41,639 --> 00:43:46,480
What about mechanical components. Motors tell stories with heat, my friends,

729
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:54,760
whether it's bearing failure, shaft misalignment, starter contact resistance, uneven

730
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:01,639
phase loading on a motor, overcurrent or overload situations, improperly

731
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:07,000
sized thermal overloads, all these type of things. If you

732
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:12,760
understand what you're looking at, thermal imaging cameras and an

733
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,920
ongoing monitoring basis like taking a picture of it, putting

734
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:20,239
it in your records, taking another picture a month later,

735
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:25,800
seeing if it's consistent under normal loading conditions, helps you

736
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:32,320
create baselines and you can be proactive. I'm telling you

737
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,519
you should have. You should. I cannot. I cannot get

738
00:44:35,519 --> 00:44:37,679
into this industry today if I did not think that

739
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,920
I needed to understand thermal imaging and add it to

740
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,440
my portfolio. It just is today. It does. It's not

741
00:44:43,519 --> 00:44:47,480
just residential, commercial, industrial, it's everything. It's just another tool

742
00:44:47,559 --> 00:44:51,119
for your toolbox. If you use it once a month,

743
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,159
you use it two times a year, it may just

744
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,480
save your button, save your customer's butt. I'm just saying now,

745
00:44:58,639 --> 00:45:04,039
what about lighting systems? Led drivers in ballasts fail thermally

746
00:45:04,599 --> 00:45:09,440
long before they fail. Visually. It may look fine. How

747
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,719
many of you seen ballasts and looked at lumin airs

748
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:16,039
and think that looks great, that looks fine, But all

749
00:45:16,119 --> 00:45:19,679
the while it's overheated. It's going to be eminent failure

750
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:26,599
and you can be proactive with it. What about rooftop units, folks,

751
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:34,119
the contactors, the capacitors, disconnects, compressor windings, fan motors, control boards,

752
00:45:34,639 --> 00:45:39,960
looking for hotspots, looking for things that are abnormal. Thermal

753
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,559
imaging cameras can see things that you cannot. But if

754
00:45:42,559 --> 00:45:44,519
you don't know how to interpret the value, then what

755
00:45:44,559 --> 00:45:47,920
happens is you cry wolf. You say, oh, you got

756
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,360
to shut this down when that might be normal operating

757
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:55,159
temperature based on the load and effect. You need to

758
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,199
understand the difference. We don't want you crying wolf, but

759
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,360
we definitely want you to be able to see what

760
00:46:00,519 --> 00:46:06,280
the problem may be. Okay, fuses, I can tell by

761
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,559
looking at something when I'm looking at it and I'm saying, well,

762
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:10,800
I can tell under a load condition whether a fuse

763
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,880
is blown or not, or the fuses having potential problems

764
00:46:16,199 --> 00:46:18,800
while it's still running. It's not fully blown through yet.

765
00:46:19,079 --> 00:46:21,239
There's things that you can determine with a thermal imaging

766
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,119
camera that can just save you time and be very

767
00:46:24,119 --> 00:46:28,760
proactive and keep the uptime up. What about commercial electrical

768
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:33,960
rooms routinely monthly imaging can save you. I'm telling you.

769
00:46:34,079 --> 00:46:39,400
It gives you load trend analysis, harmonic heating detection, understanding

770
00:46:39,519 --> 00:46:42,239
how the heating is going to be transmitted based on

771
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:49,039
different load conditions, partial failures before they escalate. You can

772
00:46:49,079 --> 00:46:55,239
find little things that you can keep fixing in order

773
00:46:55,280 --> 00:47:00,559
to maintain the optimal performance of your system' soh you

774
00:47:00,599 --> 00:47:04,559
can identify things for ongoing preventative maintenance like seasonal load.

775
00:47:04,639 --> 00:47:08,400
Changes you know what to expect in the winter time

776
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,480
than what you is in the. Summertime those type of.

777
00:47:11,519 --> 00:47:15,760
Things no other tool gives you this kind of insight

778
00:47:16,039 --> 00:47:20,079
if you understand how to use. It, okay now why

779
00:47:20,119 --> 00:47:23,719
electricians should use a thermal imaging camera on every single service? Call,

780
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,000
Okay now here's the real business side of, it. Folks

781
00:47:27,039 --> 00:47:31,599
look nim reason number one instinct. Diagnostics you can find

782
00:47:31,679 --> 00:47:34,400
issues in seconds that would take hours to locate with

783
00:47:34,559 --> 00:47:38,320
meter and. Testing that that doesn't replace. Metering you're going

784
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,000
to have To in many, cases we teach you to

785
00:47:40,039 --> 00:47:41,840
also use an amprobe in order to get a good

786
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,719
full picture of what's going. On but it puts you

787
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,119
where you need to be and it narrows it down for.

788
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:54,360
You instant. Diagnostics number two faster call. RESOLUTION a scan

789
00:47:54,519 --> 00:47:57,440
tells you exactly where to focus your time and your

790
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,119
efforts rather than just doing a while ask. Guests it

791
00:48:01,159 --> 00:48:04,440
helps you narrow down where the problem may. Be it's

792
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,679
not going to replace your. Skills it's just a tool

793
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:13,599
in your. Toolbox number three more billable. Work if you

794
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,840
find these issues the customer, has they didn't have any

795
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,440
idea they had, it you can quantify it because you

796
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,239
can actually show them this on the thermal. Camera you

797
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,679
learn how to explain it to your. Customer we even

798
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:29,480
give a module in our program unlike anybody, else nobody does.

799
00:48:29,559 --> 00:48:33,119
This we give you a module in our program on

800
00:48:33,199 --> 00:48:37,119
how to sell and convey the information to the. Customer

801
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,840
because we're not here to sell snake. Oil we're here

802
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:43,519
to sell real results that are quantifiable by. IMAGERY i

803
00:48:43,559 --> 00:48:45,920
can point out and it's easy for people to. See

804
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,320
we can look at it at different color, palettes different color,

805
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,920
spectrums and explain this is what's going. On we need

806
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,280
to fix this problem because it could be a problem

807
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:59,159
down the, road and if they don't do, it you know,

808
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:02,960
what and it does, fail they have nobody to blame but. Themselves,

809
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:12,719
now what's another? Reason higher a professional? Perception customers instantly

810
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,599
see you as the expert because you're using a tool

811
00:49:15,679 --> 00:49:18,400
that the other guy isn't. Using so you hear me

812
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,519
talk about this all the time in. Marketing while people

813
00:49:20,559 --> 00:49:23,960
get THE cmecp Program Certified Master electrical Co Professional program,

814
00:49:24,039 --> 00:49:28,559
certification is it? Required absolutely? Not should every master electrician

815
00:49:28,599 --> 00:49:31,400
think about? It, yes if you understand, marketing if you

816
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,840
understand how to put yourself above your competition and how

817
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,679
to stand out in the, crowd how to use it

818
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:40,360
when you're doing marketing, leverage how to letter your, vehicle

819
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,239
how to promote it on your business, cards how to

820
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,559
talk About i've gone over and above what the normal

821
00:49:45,639 --> 00:49:50,519
master electrician has to do to get this. Certification if

822
00:49:50,559 --> 00:49:52,840
you know how to do, that people say all the,

823
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,360
time what is it going to get? Me is that

824
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,360
all you want is what it's going to give. You,

825
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,840
okay that's going to give you is an edge over your. Competition,

826
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:07,239
well the same thing here for thermal. Imaging you understand.

827
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:12,519
It and, again the vast majority of electrical contractors out

828
00:50:12,519 --> 00:50:15,360
there don't understand the proper way to use thermal, imaging

829
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:19,760
how to incorporate it into their. Business and it's a sales,

830
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:25,400
piece a marketing, piece diagnostic, piece advance technology piece that

831
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:29,000
your customer may have never. Seen and it gives you talking. Points,

832
00:50:29,639 --> 00:50:37,840
right all win, wins folks win. Win what's another? Reason

833
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:43,800
how about liability. Protection here's your thermal scan before and

834
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:51,239
after that documentation keeps you. Safe so preventative. Maintenance anytime

835
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,800
you're installing a new piece of, equipment get it, loaded install,

836
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,960
it run it for fifteen or twenty, minutes do a

837
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,599
through image of, it take a regular picture in a

838
00:51:00,639 --> 00:51:03,519
thermal imaging. Picture keep that for the, records use that

839
00:51:03,559 --> 00:51:07,760
as your. Baseline, also in a, dwelling you go do

840
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,199
a service. Call how many times have, you as an

841
00:51:10,199 --> 00:51:13,920
electrician gone and done something that somebody calls you and, says,

842
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,559
hey something stopped working after you, left or this melted

843
00:51:17,679 --> 00:51:21,880
down or something burn up after you. Left, well, Dude

844
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,920
i'm gonna do a thermal scan of every. Panel i'm

845
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,880
going to have a thermal, scan And i'm going to

846
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:31,480
put that And i'm want to include that with a,

847
00:51:31,559 --> 00:51:33,559
report And i'm going to, say, HEY i did a

848
00:51:33,599 --> 00:51:36,440
complimentary thermal. Scan everything was, good so that if something

849
00:51:36,519 --> 00:51:38,880
happens AFTER i leave in that, panel they can't come

850
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,440
and say to, me, oh it's because you didn't see

851
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,360
this breaker was bad or this one had a poor.

852
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,039
Connection i'm gonna do the BEST i can to try

853
00:51:46,079 --> 00:51:48,199
to have that due, diligence so if you end up in,

854
00:51:48,199 --> 00:51:51,320
court you can, say, look your, Honor i'm not a,

855
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,239
Magician i'm an, electrician but you know WHAT i did.

856
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,760
DO i went that extra effort and used a thermal

857
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,559
imaging camera to try to capture some baselines for the

858
00:51:59,599 --> 00:52:04,559
customer as a. Courtesy, again it's a snapshot in. TIME

859
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:06,599
i did the BEST i could with. It and you know,

860
00:52:06,639 --> 00:52:09,920
what you call me as an, Expert i'm going to

861
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:11,840
be able to support you in that and, say you know,

862
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:15,599
what your, honor as an, expert here they did about

863
00:52:15,639 --> 00:52:19,000
all they could do in this. Situation so, again it's

864
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,280
a little extra liability protection because every panel you, touch

865
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,519
everything you stick your hands, on if it fails right after,

866
00:52:25,559 --> 00:52:28,119
that whether it's a day after or two months. After

867
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:31,000
guess what the customer always, says, well the last one

868
00:52:31,079 --> 00:52:33,320
that did anything was the last electrician it was. Here

869
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:39,599
he must have screwed something. Up it's very. Affordable it

870
00:52:39,639 --> 00:52:41,800
protects you and as long as you get into that,

871
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,159
mentality and maybe you don't, care that's mine. Too but

872
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:49,599
today people are getting very litigious the way they. Are

873
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,519
and trust, me a customer that acts like your, friend

874
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:57,360
something burns up or something burns down and they tell

875
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,320
the investigators that you recently had some electrical work or

876
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:04,039
somebody came. In guess what you are now. Suspect doesn't

877
00:53:04,079 --> 00:53:08,360
mean you did, it but you're now. Suspect, Okay so

878
00:53:08,679 --> 00:53:12,440
any thing THAT i can put in my pocket to

879
00:53:12,559 --> 00:53:17,920
help me as a licensed professional with a certificational thermal

880
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:22,360
imaging in my back, pocket it's gonna, say, look it

881
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,360
was fine WHEN i was. Here it's NOTHING i did

882
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:28,039
to cause. Anything all this stuff was. Fine all of

883
00:53:28,039 --> 00:53:31,559
that type of stuff helps protect you just a little bit.

884
00:53:31,599 --> 00:53:38,480
More Reason number six maintenance contract. Opportunities commercial customers love

885
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:43,760
thermal trend. Data whether you're adding this to your normal,

886
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:47,039
profile whether you know whether you want to get into

887
00:53:47,039 --> 00:53:49,000
some data centers and also them a third. Party go

888
00:53:49,079 --> 00:53:51,119
to them and, say, LOOK i know you've got property, mads,

889
00:53:51,159 --> 00:53:53,599
guys but we can offer you a third party thermal

890
00:53:53,639 --> 00:53:56,039
imaging and do it on a monthly basis to make

891
00:53:56,039 --> 00:53:58,920
sure you increase the. Uptime we're gonna look for any

892
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,800
abnormalities and we're gonna keep this baseline data and we're

893
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,360
gonna have it and we're gonna compare it every. Month

894
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:11,440
we can see any trend because heat. Rises, Okay so

895
00:54:11,519 --> 00:54:15,599
there's a lot of opportunities for. Maintenance commercial. Applications, uh

896
00:54:15,639 --> 00:54:18,960
big buildings like The walmarts and, whatever have rooftop, units

897
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,920
anything that you can develop a maintenance program that's a

898
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,119
baseline that's gonna be over and above what their normal

899
00:54:24,159 --> 00:54:26,400
maintenance folks. Do they don't know how to do this. Stuff.

900
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:30,920
Folks you can get creative and create programs and add these. Programs,

901
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,599
again people, say, well ain't nobody gonna. Come, look they

902
00:54:33,599 --> 00:54:37,119
are not gonna come unless you build. It they're. Not

903
00:54:37,519 --> 00:54:39,320
you have to. Build you have to work at, Something,

904
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:41,239
Scott i'm not Gonna we're not giving it to you

905
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:43,000
on a silver. Platter you gotta work a little. Bit

906
00:54:44,599 --> 00:54:48,599
reason number seven safety reliability And Code. Compliance N fpa

907
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:52,719
SEVENTY b is pushing the entire industry towards preventative thermal,

908
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:56,559
diagnostics which you can put in your pocket when you

909
00:54:56,639 --> 00:55:00,400
explain that to your customer that this is a changing,

910
00:55:00,519 --> 00:55:06,119
world that we now have specific guidelines that we should

911
00:55:06,199 --> 00:55:10,320
follow AND i can offer you that and keep it, safe,

912
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:17,119
reliable and. Compliant, now let's talk about how These Certified

913
00:55:17,159 --> 00:55:20,880
Thermal electrician program can elevate your. Skills this is our program.

914
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:27,719
Specifically so most thermography courses cover camera, focusing building, ENVELOPE hvac,

915
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:32,320
focused or generic infrared tech type. Training but you know,

916
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:38,199
what electricians aren't scanning. Roofs they're not scanning duct. Systems

917
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:43,159
you're scanning electrical systems under load. Condition you need training

918
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,840
IN nfpa seventy we do that At Electrical Code. Academy

919
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,960
we teach you THE. Neec you need training and what's

920
00:55:50,039 --> 00:55:53,480
necessary ON nfpa SEVENTY. B you need to understand one

921
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,880
ten dot FOURTEEN ct temperature. Limitations we cover. That we

922
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:02,239
explain that you need to understand installation temperature, ratings emissivity

923
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:06,280
for electrical. Metals you need to understand proper camera distance and.

924
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,400
Angle or in. Reflection you need to understand load creation.

925
00:56:10,639 --> 00:56:15,559
Methods you need to understand temperature, interpretation diagnostic, logics proper

926
00:56:15,639 --> 00:56:19,559
documentation and. Reporting you need to learn when to not

927
00:56:19,679 --> 00:56:24,199
cry wolf and when you need to advise your customer

928
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:28,000
to monitor a situation and offer a fall up. Service

929
00:56:30,519 --> 00:56:34,679
Follow up services are, Huge trust. Me it's much cheaper

930
00:56:34,679 --> 00:56:36,320
to have you follow up than it is for them

931
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,159
to have to replace it when it burns. Down trust.

932
00:56:39,199 --> 00:56:42,719
Me and you're, saying, well what has, Changed, paul over the,

933
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,679
years we never did this type of. Stuff the loading has, changed,

934
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:50,559
folks system has, changed demand has. Changed it doesn't take

935
00:56:50,599 --> 00:56:52,960
you long to look around and see that the people

936
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:56,960
are consuming current like they're going. Mad with the advent

937
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,239
of evs and systems weren't designed for the is what

938
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:01,760
people are adding them in the home all the, time

939
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,239
and they're not always doing load calculations when they're. Dwelling

940
00:57:05,199 --> 00:57:07,840
they're adding additional loads that if you have poor terminals

941
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,159
at the main or poor connections at the, meter can

942
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:12,800
create potential problems that may not have been there before

943
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they added on these additional, loads which again translates into.

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Heat there's so many factors that change it. Today that's

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why we created THE cte, program the world's first and

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only thermography program built exclusively around. Electricians it's not, generic

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it's not watered. Down it's an electrical thermal imaging done,

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right the right. Way proper, code proper, science proper, procedures proper,

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safety real world. Examples that's what THE cte program is all.

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it's not a Selling we sell. Courses we can give

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you the best deal for the best professional grade thermal

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imaging cameras that you don't have to spend thousands of dollars.

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already have. One but if you're not using a thermal imaging,

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yet you're behind the, times not because others are doing,

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it but because electrical systems require. It thermal imaging is

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a diagnostic, tool a preventative maintenance, tool a liability, shield

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a customer education, tool a revenue generating, tool a safety,

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tool and to be honest with, you it's a professional

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differentiator between you and your. Competition if you want to

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master this and understand how to interpret, it how to

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look at and see trends that are coming in the.

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competition or at least push your competition to be on

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par with, you then you need to look at OUR

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are hosted BY, eca which is our corporate. Office we've

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been around for a long, time. Folks i've been teaching

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this stuff for nearly forty. YEARS i serve on code

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Making panel. FIVE i serve on code Making panel. Seventeen you're, saying,

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okay five is grinding and. BONDING i understand those type of.

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Things but where do you get your expertise when it

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comes to conductors in opacity and temperatureize. Folks i've been

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the director of technical services for the world's largest wiring

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cable manufacturer for over a, decade working very closely FOR

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r AND. D i have nine patents to my name

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in the wiring cable. INDUSTRY i understand, TERMINATIONS i understand.

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HEATING i understand the thermal impacts of doing those things.

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Improperly this is all that led me to create this,

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program and this is why you don't get this anywhere,

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else only in our. Program all. Right, AGAIN i don't

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want to sound like a sales pitch Because i'm passionate about,

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it but you need. It if you want more information

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on adding our, services adding our certification to your your

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your options as a professional, electrician do me a. Favor

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go To Thermal. Imaging excuse, Me thermal electrician dot. Com

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Favor think about adding it to your toolbox because you're

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going to see amazing things and you're gonna prevent a

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lot of things that can be. Prevented all, Right, okay,

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folks that's ALL i got for. You hopefully you got

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something out of. That until next, time stay, Safe god

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bless and we'll catch you on an upcoming episode Of

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mastering THE Nec till next, time.

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Speaker 1: Peace thanks for tuning into another electrifying episode of The

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master THE ndp. Podcast we hope you're feeling more powered

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up and ready to tackle the electrical world with the

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knowledge and confidence you need to. Succeed, remember in the electrical,

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trade knowledge is, power and we're here to make sure

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Trade from all of us here At Electrical Code, academy

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you on the next Amazing master of THE nec podcast.

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