Speaker 1: All right, folks, if you're into thermography and you want
to be a certified therminal electrician, there are certain calculators
that we have created for your use that are going
to set you apart from everybody else. Let's get into
that in this episode and find out which calculators can
help you the best.
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Speaker 3: What up, everybody.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Master the NEC, the podcast
where I talk about all things electrical doesn't matter. In fact,
today we're going to be talking about thermography and various
calculators that we've created for the use of electrical thermal
imaging and a little bit about each one and how
you can use them, and they're available over on our
website Thermal Electrician dot com. Now you might say, look,
I already do thermal imaging.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 1: We have some tools for you, and you may already
be certified, but you're going to see a big trend
moving towards thermal imaging and for those that are electricians,
being able to become a Certified Thermal Electrician or a
CTE is going to get more and more important as
we partner with some industry leaders, for example Milese, who
is making some amazing sets of thermal imaging cameras and
they they're definitely a leader in that area of development
and they're worldwide, I mean they do they produce these
cameras as well as other measuring devices all over the world.
And we've partnered with them, and we're excited about that,
and so you know, there's a reason for it, and
there's a reason we really sought this kind of collaboration
in partnership to be able to merge the two companies
into the.
Speaker 3: Educational wing and the product wing.
Speaker 1: And we definitely know that they have the best thermal
imaging cameras, especially the most affordable for what they bring
to the industry, and we're gonna be talking about that
in upcoming videos that we're gonna be doing here in
the next couple weeks. We're gonna be talking about that.
The TR twenty pro which is my go to in
the field. I wish I had it years ago. And
then of course we have a three eighty four c
which is an amazing thermal imaging camera with some amazing
features like Wi Fi and you can actually send it
to another camera to have a third party reviewing it
on a larger screen. It's just some great features that
are built into it camera. And again the TR twenty
pros has dual cameras so you can get a visible
as well as the IR image. Anyway, great stuff. We're
gonna be going over all of that down the road
in that type of thing. So so it's one of
those things that we you know, we're going to produce
those things and make them available to people. Okay, that's
what we're we're going to try to do, all right,
So all right, without further ado, let's get into it today.
Speaker 3: What we're gonna be talking about.
Speaker 1: Have you ever, as an electrician or somebody using a
thermal imaging camera stood in front of a piece of
equipment that's energized and wonder to yourself, am I actually
measuring what I think I'm measuring? If that's ever run
through your head, or you see these videos and these
things of people using thermal imaging cameras and you watch
it and you'll even see some electricians promoting it on
social media, and they only just talk about the colors, right,
They talk about the different rainbows of palettes in the
hot spots and all these type of things. And at
the end of the day, you can tell by the
way they discuss it that they really probably don't use
it day in and day out or understand things in
the field like how reflection can affect the total output
or distance. It's extremely important to understand the distance and
you're measuring distance and the limitations. I've seen people hold
these things up and use them and try to do
things at vast distances and they don't understand that these
these are tools and they do have limitations, and you
have to be aware of these limitations. And if you're
not educated on them, you're just buying a toy and
it's just a toy. It doesn't do anything for you.
And to get the most accurate reading, even if you
do want to get into this industry or add it
to your existing portfolio, and whether you're doing it at
a very small level and residential to give a service
to your residential customer on a normal service call or
things like that, or if you're looking at HVAC equipment
and you're looking in it and you're looking at capacitors
and you can tell by heat signatures and what's going on.
These can be very powerful tools, but if you don't
understand it, you're just spending money, right, valuable money.
Speaker 3: So you have to understand how to use these.
Speaker 1: So what this episode we're going to try to do
is is kind of introduce you to explaining the problems
of unit confusion, distance errors and missivity mistakes and kind
of misleading images. But that's why thermal cameras don't make
you a professional decision making does learning how to interpret
what you see. That's going to be the difference, right,
And so you buy a camera, or you may have
been doing this for many years and you may have
made claims and maybe haven't come back to backfire on you.
Or maybe you've told people, hey, you've got to replace
this piece of equipment, or this is about to go
and or this is you know, this is just a
ticking time bomb. In reality, it's very hard for us
as an electrical thermographer to make those claims. All we
can do is kind of lead them down a path
and monitor and there's some signs that we can look for,
but you've got to be very careful. And so there
are a lot of people out there, and I've got
some examples of some articles that people put out on
social media and other things like LinkedIn which they held
themselves off as experts.
Speaker 3: And that's okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of experts for everything, but the information
they were given wasn't accurate. And so it's really important
with us is when we partner with a major manufacturer
of thermal imaging cameras, and we are going to be
the technical training aspect of it that you understand that
we want to go very deep into the product and
its use so that you totally understand how to use it.
That's the key, but also how you can look at
something and make informed decisions to educate your client. And
one of the big advantages to thermal imaging that people
want to talk about is preventative maintenance and ongoing monitoring
in documenting it properly and how to set up your
camera and how to do this so it's repetitive every
three months, six months, eight months, twelve months, however you
set your plan up so it's really important. Okay, So
that's kind of some of the stuff we want to
talk about today a little bit. Okay, Number one, let's
talk about this the real problem in the field. We're
going to talk about the cameras reported. A lot of
times people get confused is that they have cameras and
they report in meters, and the electricians we think in feet.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're dealing with.
Speaker 1: Imperial and you're dealing with products that typically are made overseas,
so they're going to come in metric and obviously that
is sometimes harder. A lot of the machines don't change that.
They keep it in the meters and you want it
in feet, okay, And then there's a temperature deal where
a lot of places in the world use celsius. We
typically want to have it in fahrenheit. Right, So you're
going to be making changes in your unit to make
sure that you're getting something and it is consistently replicable
every time you use it. Now, technicians not understanding the
spot size, the pixel resolution, and the distance effects when
they try to take a reading can get some very
misleading information and they don't understand the importance of how
their thermal imaging camera works. Right, So why misinterpretation causes
again wrong severity calls? Right, So there can be false alarms,
there can be missed failures, there can be loss of
customers trust because they literally don't understand what your camera
is telling you. Right, And it's not as easy as
people think. I mean, you just look at an image
and you think that's it. It tells a story. Well,
it tells you colors, it tells you patterns, it tells
you palettes, it tells you hot spots. But is that
spot too hot or is that typical under a load condition.
Speaker 3: And so at the end of the day, nothing's gonna
trump knowledge.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're trying to spit out to you,
and that's what our programs do. We try to spit
out that knowledge so that you can go into this.
And again, nothing's going to take the place of you
practicing and looking at images, even googling images and online
and find images and use somebody else's images and try
to translate what may be going on. All that stuff
is just gonna make you better. Okay, it's just gonna
make you better. Obviously every piece of equipment is different.
But again, the more you do it, the better you're
gonna get at it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, now.
Speaker 1: Let's get into this. Why do we create these calculators?
Why do they exist?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: Why do we put them on our websites and create
mobile apps for thermal electricians or certified thermal electricians. Why
do we do this and not just for our program
but make them available to other folks over at thermal
electrician dot com if you're into thermal imaging again.
Speaker 3: Because you know, our courses teach you to.
Speaker 1: Understand things like the delta tea and the peer review
and emissivity and all these types of things. But at
the end of the day, sometimes you need calculators that
can make life a little easier in the field when
you got all these numbers to deal with. And so
we create these calculators, and we're also creating mobile apps
that actually make it very easy to get to these
different calculators and guides and things like that on our
websites but through our mobile apps. So we don't build
these just for academics, right, just so we could build
these things. No, we build these because electricians that are
doing thermography in the field, they need answers now, not
Google searches. Okay, now you could be using trade hog
if you don't know what trade is. It's the world's
first and by far more superior. In fact, I got
something the other day from somebody that says that NFPA
had something in link that was an AI model and
it wasn't even close to being as good as ours,
and it can't be because of how we develop our model.
Trade hog is just the most advanced AI tool. Why
pay the money if you're in the trade Why pay
the money for chat GPT.
Speaker 3: When you can get.
Speaker 1: Trade hog and get the best of everything plus have
it tailored to your business. We have what's called the
office Hog, and we have what's the trade Hog, and
soon we'll be adding the Crazy Hog, which is basically
just like a regular chat GPT.
Speaker 3: You can ask it anything, that type of thing.
Speaker 1: But that's being launched very soon and it's going to
be available to those that are in the basic and
the premium level, not the light level, but the basic
and premium, so they get it. It's just say, no
other reason why you don't need to pay that monthly
feed chat GPT which comes back with generic terms, when
ours is going to be very specific and design for
use and being very concise. So again they're just another
model out there. We just we have our own model,
and there's another model, and ours just uses many, many,
many other inputs, not just values from chat GPT, but
other things prompts that we put in data that we upload,
so it's constantly evolving. So so there are places that
you can ask many, many different types of questions. But
a lot of times if you're going through like a
thermography program, whether it's a level one, level two, level three,
whatever it may be, for thermal electricians. You're pretty much
geared towards the level one because again we're very specific
to electricians. You need those questions answered. In a lot
of times, it's distance that you're worried about in understanding
severity and the different levels of that. And we create
these calculators, in these tools resources to help you constantly.
And that's just what we do. Nobody else does it
like that. I don't know any other certification program that
offers the tools that we offer, even if you're not
in our program. Okay, So it's just it's just an
amazing resource over on our website Thermal Electrician dot com.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I build them because electricians need them. They need those answers, now, okay,
uh and so that's why we do it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about a few of the calculators
that we have.
Speaker 3: There's a bunch more on there.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of guides, there's a bunch of other
things on there that you can check out as well,
but we're just gonna talk about a few of them today.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So the first calculator that I will talk about today
is our meters to feet and inches converter. This may
sound like a simple tool. If you're out there and
you know how to convert meters into feet and inches, okay,
from metrics to imperial. If you already know that, then
this is you know, this is just a convenient tool.
And why is it important? Well, the vast majority of
the thermal cameras today are create or built overseas. Okay,
they just have the technology and it can do the production,
and they've gotten so good now and they're the reason
why cameras have dropped from twenty thousand dollars now down
to affordable. That makes it a no brainer for your
your whole crew to have their own camera. Why well,
most of these cameras have an output in their distances meters.
Speaker 3: And while you can change things like.
Speaker 1: The temperature fahrenheit and cels here, which we'll talk about
in a minute, you really in many cases can't change
the output in meters. And it's important because you need
to understand distances. And when you're measuring a lux temperature
versus a piece of gear a motor, there's different distances
that are extremely important. In fact, it's a good opportunity
for me to explain that over on our website Thermal
Electrician dot com We have a blog series now. It's
underneath the main home screen. You click home, you'll see
a drop down and you'll see a link that says blogs.
We write a lot of blogs on all kinds of topics,
and many of you out there probably don't do blogs.
You don't like to read blogs, but in this profession,
I would recommend that you start getting used to taking
the time and read blogs, especially if they're technical blogs.
We spend a lot of time creating these blogs, and
they're educational blogs, unlike the blogs that we may have
on other sites that we produce. As you'll know Electrical
Code Academy, we have the exam prep electrician courses, training, grounding,
and bonding. But this division that deals with thermography for electricians.
Speaker 3: All of the.
Speaker 1: Blogs and articles that we write are very informative and
they've been vetted very well. They're tailed around what you
need to know in this profession. If you're an electrician
you want to add thermography to your scope, you need
to read these, You need to understand and bookmarket because
we're always coming up with new blogs and so you
definitely want to be abreast of them when they come out.
But there's a great article that I wrote. They're about
understanding distances and the importance of distances when it comes
to things like lugs and motors and housings and all
these type of things. So it's very beneficial. But one
of the things that we do is realize that sometimes
on the fly we need an easy way to convert.
And so while your camera, especially if you're doing a report,
your camera maates say point three or three point zero meters,
but you just can't equate that in your head two
inches in feet. And that can be important, especially when
you're doing reports or understanding the distances, especially in the course,
because it'll give you recommended distances for taking certain readings
and then how to quantify those readings. A lot of
people think that it's just you can do thermal imaging
at an infinite distance and get accurate readings. That's just
not the case. You'll get images, but you won't get
what you need to be accurate. And that's the key here, right.
Anybody can just throw images, but we want accuracy. So
we created a quick calculator, a quick tool that will
do that. And again the reason for that is because
the vast majority of the thermal cameras are going to
give you an output in meters, and we want to
translate that into what people are used to seeing because
electricians we think feet, we think inches, even when we
use the National Electrical Code and we know that it's
got a metric in it and it's got the imperial
and at the end of the day, we always use
feet and inches and things like that. We do not
use millimeters and meters, even though they're in the code,
and it's just not something that we're accustomed to. So
rather than make a mistake in misjudged distances, and at
the end of the day, what we train you in
a lot of these course material as well as in
our blogs, is that distance really matters because it corrupts
what we call the spot size in the temperature accuracy
if your distance is off. So create understanding the distances accurately.
Especially in the other tools that we have, where it's
going to ask you to put in a certain distance,
you need to make sure that you're putting it in accurately,
and so creating a simple tool for that just keeps
it just reduces the mistakes.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: The next one was a very simple temperature tool. I'm
sure you have. This is probably on your phone. You
probably already have it, but we wanted to put it
in a place where it's just easy. Is understanding celsius
to fahrenheit converter, you know, global camera firmware versus us reporting.
Sometimes most of these cameras, you can can change from
celsius to fahrenheit in the system itself. But again it
eliminates this this math equation that can cause a problem
if you don't understand it. So we just create a
simple tool to make it easier for you to be
able to do that.
Speaker 3: And it's just makes life a little easier to have
that tool. Right.
Speaker 1: So the next one we have is a spot size
and distance ratio calculator.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: You know why is this important? Well, to be honest
with you, distance is everything, and the further you move
away from from a from something you're measuring is the
results start to get more suspect, and so you move
closer to quantify your results, obviously staying within the safe
working environment following ppe if you know that, you need
to follow. But distance is everything and understand how to
set your thermal imaging camera correctly for the distance that
you're working with is so important so this calculator is
how to calculate. It prevents false conclusions and other words,
it kind of lets you readjust to reevaluate your distances
based on the spot size. Maybe you're doing a small
lug and you want to make sure that you're really
focusing on this lug or this termination, and so again,
distance is everything. We have a neat little article that
explains that over in our blogs as well for those
that are confused by a spot sizing and distance ratio
and all this kind of stuff. But we give you
a nifty little calculator that allows you to be able
to do that. Okay, Also we have I should mention
we also have a toolbox.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've mentioned that forwards.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of these calculators in these resources,
but one of them is a nifty little toolbox with
a opacity calculator, emissivity calculator, adjustment tool that'll kind of
help you pick the right emissivity value depending on what
you're looking at, because remember that can change whether or
not it's a core, you know, kind of a oxidized
copper bus versus a regular copper bus, versus an aluminum
versus oxidized aluminum versus plastic, you know, insulation, black tape,
things like that. It all changes, and all of this
can can affect the outcome. So again, when people think
of just buying a thermal imaging camera and they get
out there into the field and they just start shooting
this on things, they get values. And if they're basing
a report on these values, and these values aren't very accurate,
somebody could step in and create problems. So you want to,
you know, cross all your t's, dot all your eyes
and understand.
Speaker 3: What these things like emissivity mean.
Speaker 1: And so again, the one thing that I will tell
you is that if you have improper emissivity and you
don't understand it thoroughly, your results can be as much
as ten twenty thirty or even forty degrees fahrenheit off
in error than what it actually is. And that's the
difference between somebody saying, hey, this is something you need
to monitor, or this is something that needs to be
corrected right away. There's a big difference, Okay, big huge difference.
And so the first thing that I always tell people
is you have to set your equipment up properly before
you start diving in and if you don't understand how
to set the distance, how to do emissivity, if you
don't understand reflection, if you don't understand these things, well
you're gonna get a reading. You're gonna get a value,
but it doesn't mean squat because it's not an accurate number.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So we have a tool for that, and it's available
in the toolbox that's on our website. Okay, So that's
you know, that's just one of those things that we
want to that we want to help you with is
making sure that you can get that.
Speaker 3: In fact, give you a quick let me give you
a quick kind of a rundown, real quick.
Speaker 1: So let me see here a real quick rundown of
what we've got here for you.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: When you go to our website thermal Electrician dot com,
you're going to see a home tab, You're going to
see a resources tab, you're going to see a calculator tab.
All of those have little arrows on it that means
there's a drop down, that means there's something underneath it. Now,
if you're on a mobile device, it'll beat a little
three little hamburgers, But once you click that, you will
see it and you'll see that there's little arrows and
there's things underneath it. So that's the kind of the
structure that we've set up. Now under the home you're
going to see that we have the thermal blogs.
Speaker 3: Encourage you to read those blogs.
Speaker 1: Because they're very informative and you're going to learn something,
I promise you. But under the resources, you're going to
see that there is a long list of resources. There's
the thermal toolbox right which I told you about. The
thermal toolbox that's going to have the severate ty and
delta T. This is very important to understand that you
have two different temperatures and how you're going to determine
what the delta T is because this is where you're
gonna be making decisions as a three phase calculator. Again,
emissivity helper that helps you pick the right setting. There's
some capacity vaults that's drop and there's even a report
software so if you want to use our software to
create your reports in the field. There's a nifty one
on there as well, so I get that's given to you.
That's a resource. But if you go down the list,
you're going to see that we have an IR Windows
selection helper. And this is important because some people go
to projects where you can't get into the equipment, so
you're going to use a viewing window. And so again
you have to understand that there's a distance requirement that
you need to know not only the distance from the
equipment to the viewing window, but also to your equipment.
And so this is where you got to plug in
the right values. Okay, so we give you that a
helper tool. We have an ARC fault risk score analyzer,
again understanding the risk you're associating with.
Speaker 3: We have a motor heat risk quick checklist.
Speaker 1: We have a thermal trend comparatoire, which is load normalization
means you can you can put in loading information. It
can tell you keep you on a long term basis.
It allows you to monitor the load. So this is
part of preventative maintenance and ongoing monitoring. We give you
that little tool. It's pretty cool. We give you a
reflected apparent temperature called an RAT quick tool. Again, that
is an amazing little tool because you'll able to put
in various values. Don't know how often you'll use it,
but you enter your crumpled foil reflected reading to store
the RAT value for the camera software settings.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you aim the camera. It's it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: You aim the camera at a crumpled piece of tinfoil
like a like a like aluminum foil. Okay, uh, and
you place it the target angle in location, and you
take the ambient temperature that type of thing, and all
this episode it's it's it's kind of neat. I don't
know how many people use that, but it's called a
reflective Apparent Temperature r a T tool.
Speaker 3: That type of thing, So it's available. I don't know
how many people would.
Speaker 1: Use that one, but it's there for you if you
want to use that. And just one more tool, we
have what's called anymissivity helper and a confidence meter. Right again,
this is similar to the other. You pick from a
list and it'll give it'll give you. For example, I
just I just pick a numberlets and you can do
custom yourself as electrical tape, which is typically a messivity
of a point ninety five okay uh. In the distance,
let's say I'm measuring the I'm going to be doing
this ato point three meters and if you're angle, I'm
gonna try to stay close to a probably like a
forty five degree angle, right, And so when you do
you do that and you selected a point ninety five
moderate good conditions for reliable comparative thermography reading. So it's
about an eighty percent score standard practice, right, So that's good.
Now that's the distance. When you change the distance, longer
distance means more atmosphere plus a smaller target pixel. Okay,
So again it all is going to change depending on
you how your angle now angle of view, the degrees
is going to change. It should yield a higher confidence
score means it's a good condition because you don't want
to keep going too much an angle from the target.
So you know, there's a sweet spot in there, and
this helper kind of gives you that sweet spot. It
kind of helps you get your confidence up in your
reading that type of thing. So, for example, if I
were to take electrical tape and have it on a
piece of equipment, an emissivities as zero point ninety five
and my distance is say point three, you know, and
it's a viewing angle of ten degrees, then the confidence
score of the reading that I'm getting is about a
ninety two percent and that is very.
Speaker 3: Good, okay. So it's just you know, some things that
help you in your confidence with your the values that
you're getting. Okay, that's all it is is.
Speaker 1: We create these tools to try to help make sure
you get your confidence up as you're doing these.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: There's also a tool called the loose connection loss estimator.
That's I screate our estimator. So you put your current
amps in there, you add any resistance and millions okay,
and then of course thee hours per day energy costs,
and it will basically estimate the watts loss and annual
costs calls by adding resistance that is loose, oxidize or
undertorque connections.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Great for explaining the impact to the customer of it. Again,
you just can't make up a number, right, You just
can't make up a number. You have to come up
with some clear value. So I need to know what
the killo OOP per hour charges. I need to know
the number of days hours per day that it runs.
I need to know what the resistance is in milliums.
So I'm gonna have to take a reading. Okay, So
again you have to have the numbers. You know, they
all saying, crap in, crap out. You got to know
your numbers in order. But we create the calculators to
try to make life a little easier for you. And
then we have what's called a temperature rise versus load estimator.
Now this estimates severity based on temperature rise that's the
delta t and approximate. Approximate what it might look like
at one hundred percent loaded. Useful for consistent triage in
the field. So you give it an ambient temperature, you
measure the component that you're measuring, the hot spot, whatever
it is that you got on your thermal imaging camera.
You put that in there. You know load at the
time of the scan. Okay, if it's unknown, the best
estimate is minimum one percent. But again, uh it's if
you don't know. But if you do know what the
loading is, put it in there and then determine what
the conductor or the connection is, whether it's copper or aluminum,
that type of thing.
Speaker 3: And it's going to give you some value. So there's
there's a bunch of those in there.
Speaker 1: But where it really starts to get in some of
these calculators, and that's where you have the meter to
feet an inches calculator. We have a very extensive voltage
drop calculator that allows you to do parallel sets. Many
voltage drop calculators out there don't let you do parallel sets.
We have one that's designed for that. The other one,
like I said, is the spot size and Distance calculator.
Speaker 3: That's the FOV based.
Speaker 1: We have a three phase imbalance calculator voltage or current.
We have a breaker conductor load percentage calculator. We have
a Kwa kava and power factor calculator. And we have
what's called a payback ROI calculator for repair versus loss.
So this allows you to see how long it will
take you if you have to make a repair, how
long it will take you to fix that to recoup
your money the return on investment for that repair. Is
it something that needs to be done immediately or is
it something that you can do down the road, or
how long will it cost you? Like if it's going
to cost me fifteen thousand dollars to fix something and
because of the issue, it maybe's costing us two hundred
and fifty dollars a day or one hundred dollars a
day or whatever. Based on the other calculations that we've
done based on resistance, you got to know the values.
Speaker 3: You just can't pull a number from anywhere.
Speaker 1: But it at least gives you a tool that you
can plug in some numbers and get an understanding. If
we know the kilowod hours and we know what the
load is and we can calculate that out, we can
come up with the cost factor for that load. Now
you plug it in, and now if it's costing you money,
at least you can plug it in and get some
kind of values that can share with your customer. But again,
you're just not trying to sell them snake oil here.
It's not how it works. Okay, So there's just quite
a few things on our website. Now look for these
things to also end up in your mobile app, which
means that you can just click on it and boom,
bring it right up on your mobile app.
Speaker 3: It just makes life a little easier for you down
the road.
Speaker 1: And that will only be available to a certified thermal electrician.
That will not be available to anybody else the mobile version.
So you got to be a certified thermal electrician to
get our mobile app. And it means that many of
these free calculators online will eventually go away once that
mobile app is launched because again we don't mind bringing
making them available to people. But at the end of
the day, we create these things for our certified thermal electricians.
And it doesn't matter if you're already a thermographer, you're
already a professional that does this, and you're adding our certification.
If you're an electrician, you're just adding it to your resume.
That's it, and you'll probably learn something that you didn't
understand about electricity or about the NEC or the application
that we're going to teach you in the program. And
of course I'm always here. We also have our own
message board which has a separate forum just for electrical
thermographers that are in our program, so you can go there,
post your questions, post your images, all that type of thing,
and more than happy to respond to that. All right,
all right, folks, that's pretty much it for this episode.
I hope you got something out of it. For those
out there that say, Paul, what happened to your exam prep, Well,
we do a lot of stuff here, but you know,
thermography and for electricians and the certified Thermal Electrician is
a big thing for us, and we're teaching a lot
of people how to add thermography to their current scope
of business and then make those that do it just
a little bit better. Okay, so check out our website.
Look at all the links, read the articles, read the blogs.
People say, well, how does it compare to a level
one in you know thermography course?
Speaker 3: Go read it. We have a blog on that.
Speaker 1: We meet all the equal standards to that. There is
no licensing for that. But you're already electrician, so you've
got that covered. We just teach you how to do
it and that type of thing. So it's all available.
Check it out at thermal electrician dot com. Check it
out even if you're just curious, give it a look.
See and maybe you have a question. Maybe you're like, well,
I'm just a residential guy. How is this can how
can this help me on a residential project? Well, it
most certainly can, and we can teach you why and
how and when to do it? All right, all right, folks,
until next time, Stay safe, God blessed. We'll catch you
on an upcoming episode of Master the NEC.
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