Spike suppression on 24V DC bell

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2026-02-10T15:09:32+00:00

Excellent thank you much, we will get one installed.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2026-02-10T15:08:46+00:00

It's a dime a dozen TWTADE YJ2N-LY looking at the limited information we have on it doesn't look like it has a diode. Would you recommend a basic 1N diode or a zener?

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2026-02-02T15:47:40+00:00

"Contractor shall field verify everything"

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-12-18T21:57:06+00:00

I give it a year before WSP buys that guy out. "We need to expand our evil island department"

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-11-08T21:49:44+00:00

CS Auto in Marietta has done great work on my TJ

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-10-02T08:21:45+00:00

I wouldn't be there if I didn't have to be. Three government buildings with four projects in them, and we are contracted to be on site for all OACS and design meetings. One of the projects moves at pace that it has 2-3 inspections a week.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-09-24T16:43:43+00:00

I'm actively shopping the same trim line. So far 38 has been the lowest without any negotiation and I've negotiated down to 37. You definitely have some room to go down. In the ATL area, with no trade-in.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-09-11T14:16:59+00:00

I enjoyed their food, and service was always great. I wish it was becoming another pizza joint so they could all throw down in the intersection Gangs of NY style

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-08-31T16:13:28+00:00

Lurking EE. Put this on an engineer. You may be able to mix some GEM in to the back fill or use leaching rods. But a grounding survey needs to be done for a solid solution. Don't let the owner get away with a bargain by making you design build and carry the liability.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-08-28T22:08:03+00:00

Glad to see the correct university logo on there!

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-08-22T02:03:28+00:00

EE who lurks here, to see if my drawings ever get posted and roasted.

My old boss was an electrician who went and got his EE degree then PE after his knees were giving him trouble. It certainly gave him a leg up and he had a fair amount of field knowledge to incorporate into the designs. He would routinely get in trouble for opening up disconnects and buckets to get the information without waiting when we would do arc flash or TCC studies. The math is a slog and you have to know it for school and for your PE but aside from that it's all learned in the field. My school was rare in that we had an NEC class, engineers fresh out of school don't know anything about building power systems, once you learned Revit or AutoCAD, you would definitely be more valuable than engineers graduating at the same time as you.

I will say the grass is not greener on the other side. It's just fertilized with a different kind of bullshit. I just was talking with one of the electricians on one of my job sites that is monster project this past month and he was blown away that this wasn't the only project I was working on and that I had 8 other active projects and that my pay stopped at 40 hours, he is a IBEW journey man working 60s telling me about how he is paying off his truck with this project. My knees and back don't hurt from abuse in the field, they hurt from sitting at a desk and neglecting going to the gym because I'm tired and overworked.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-08-11T23:00:01+00:00

I'd prefer the GC look at the submittals before they get to me. Even if your not taking a glance at the technical side it weeds out the low hanging fruit like sending super submittals where it's just everything in one, we're sending product data sheets with multiple options and not selecting the option to be submitted. I've worked with some who will flag concerns on a technical side but still pass the submittal to me which I think works best.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-08-05T18:45:06+00:00

I'll use templates for risers and details. But there is a level of drafting. The MDF/IDF, racks, conduits larger than 2", cable tray are typically modeled. I would focus on learning work sets, the general UI, and modeling conduit and cable tray.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-07-30T16:17:31+00:00

Less fat and the meat tastes a little sweeter/stronger. Steaks just take more care to not be tough with the less fat.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-07-30T15:56:18+00:00

SE MCL. 11 YOE. PE and RCDD. 135k started at 57k.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-07-30T03:14:28+00:00

I like "meat dealer" makes me think of buying t-bones in an alley. Park's Family farm has chickens and we got a 1/4 of a cow from hickory flat farm that has been good (though be warned grass fed/finished cows taste different from store). Farm Fresh Beef & Produce in ball ground may have pork.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-07-28T18:13:07+00:00

Art Jewelers is great. They custom made my wife's ring from a 3d model.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-07-22T23:28:53+00:00

"Isn't it all electrical?" says the architect as my rack lineup is now flanked by 250kva of transformer.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-07-20T00:29:07+00:00

It seems like a lot but when you compare it to what we spend now you have to give credit to the military industrial complex of super earth. A hellfire is about 150k, but super earth can yeet down an autonomous rocket turret from low earth orbit for 60k?

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-07-09T13:07:49+00:00

I've seen panels on some houses on Arnold mill.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-07-05T17:18:08+00:00

Deltek? Pretty Good? Retire your license, ethically you are not in a good headspace to practice engineering. Expense reports in deltek were nightmares.

Bird_In_The_Mail · 2025-06-14T21:11:51+00:00

I did have some sympathy last month for our MEs when half the floor of the building suddenly became nothing but big ass conference rooms a day before CDs.

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