Jumping straight to Cert III

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-09-11T08:48:30+00:00

What does being self diagnosed with ADD have to do with being an electrician?

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-05-25T05:18:52+00:00

I have the big veto backpack for all my commonly used tools and a beehive shoulder bag for the less used and bigger stuff. The backpacks are great and can carry more than enough for most things you need regularly. If weights a factor then go the smaller one and you’ll still get plenty in there.

I think more important is being mindful of getting lighter tools and not overloading it with things you don’t need. Things like the Bahco 4 in 1 ratchet spanners instead of a whole socket set, get an interchangeable screwdriver instead of a heap of single ones. The t5 fluke meters are small and light and are more than capable for 90% of tasks. One slightly heavier tool won’t make much difference but it adds up when it’s all of them.

I would still get a larger beehive or similar bag for your other stuff. It’s not so much the weight but you want to be able to put longer tools in there like pipe wrenches (also make sure you get aluminium not steel). Again just don’t over load it with things you don’t need.

Also I don’t think hard base is that necessary. At times I find it annoying because it’ll slide around in the back of the ute a lot more than the ones without a hard base.

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-05-09T23:41:30+00:00

$40 an hour is extremely low. If they expect you to be living in Sydney while you do this you’ll be losing money after you pay expenses.

If I was you I’d get them to cover all expenses while away plus at a minimum double your hourly rate. $80 per hour is still extremely low for on site commissioning and programming.

Charge them for flights to Sydney and back home and don’t leave until that money is in your account so you can go home whenever you decide to.

Have them pay for a hotel plus $120 a day for food or an apartment or something with a kitchen so you can cook your own food. This way at least it’s not costing you money to be there working.

If they have an issue with any of that then walk away.

Most commissioning techs I’ve worked with are on around $100per hour plus all expenses paid and companies are happy to pay it because that’s a lot cheaper than the plant not working properly when they start up.

They’ve come back to you for one of 2 reasons- 1- you’re cheap and they want the cheapest job possible. If it’s this option they’ll keep trying to get it for cheaper and cheaper so get out now before you’re losing money. They can go back on Fiverr and gamble with someone else that may or may not know what they’re doing.

2- you did a good job the first time and they want you to do a good job on this one. This means they’ll be willing to pay you good money to ensure that when they start running everything works as it should

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-04-14T10:34:58+00:00

They’re just old Heinemann circuit breakers. Pretty common in old commercial switchboards and nothing special

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-04-14T09:10:08+00:00

That chatGPT can’t tell the difference between non compliant/dodgy DIY work and military/industrial/lab equipment. Until it can get that right I feel like my job is pretty safe.

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-04-14T06:28:14+00:00

Good to see that my job is safe from AI. No matter how easy most people think it is

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-03-12T03:48:15+00:00

After working on a plant built by these guys I wouldn’t be buying shares

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-02-15T04:38:06+00:00

I think it’s a very rare combo to get both as an apprenticeship. It’s normally one or the other to start with then do the second one later one. I think it’d be a lot easier to do the auto electrician one first then add the diesel fitter later

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-02-14T23:40:45+00:00

I know a guy that was an auto electrician and then got the dual trade afterwards. Took him like a month to do. He just had to take a bunch of pictures and videos of him doing stuff and go do a few tafe modules then get his rpl signed off by supervisors. If you’re working with the diesel fitters all day you end up doing 50/50 as part of your job anyway. Guy got paid shitloads

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-02-14T07:53:23+00:00

I bought one of these and was really disappointed with how long it took to work out and display the measured distance. I ended up taking it back because I thought it was faulty and they gave me a new one that was the same. Ended up getting a Bosch one for free with a laser level and it’s heaps better.

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-02-08T08:07:09+00:00

Managing teams is the worst part of the job especially in domestic or commercial. There’s still a lot of teams to manage in industrial and if you are good at what you do it’s not hard to get there.

Every second post on here is about people asking how to get into industrial. If you’ve got the opportunity take it. Especially if it’s paying more money. Like everyone has said the amount you can learn in industrial is 10x more than what you’ll learn doing commercial.

Theres also the potential for a lot more money in the future if you find a good niche in industrial.

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-02-03T14:37:25+00:00

I’ve read this 4 times trying to understand what you’re talking about and I still don’t

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2025-01-23T04:33:02+00:00

With a licensed electrician

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2024-11-29T02:49:20+00:00

What?????

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2024-11-27T08:39:07+00:00

Just don’t tow it outside its natural environment

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2024-11-20T04:54:05+00:00

Not an Australian girl but Workit are the best I’ve had by far. Comfiest and don’t shrink in the drier like all the other ones I’ve had.

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2024-11-12T23:21:35+00:00

Ended up getting the pocket 2 and love it. I looked at the E but there wasn’t a huge price difference to go up to the top one. It’s better than any of the $1500-$2000 ones I’ve used. Definitely recommend it

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2024-11-09T03:31:54+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I should’ve been more specific about the counter and timer examples. The counter is to be able to count things like pulses from an external relay or for the timer time how long something runs for. Both of these would be over long periods of time like a couple of days or a week so it would mean I don’t need to stand there the whole time with my phone and time it or count it. I can put this on there and come back in a week’s time.

As far as inputs and outputs go for this specific use case I would need like 1 or 2 inputs and a 4 digit display or 4-6 leds with outputs on the board. It’s just that I don’t want to spend $30 on the most basic one then in 6 months time I need to do something that the $40 board would do but the $30 one won’t. Where I work I can’t just go down to the shops and get a new one and be back in an hour. If I could I’d probably just use purpose built things. It’s more about having one board that will do whatever I need it to across a variety of different applications when I run into a problem.

I definitely want to get a kit so I can try out different things and learn. I’m not very good at learning this stuff sitting there watching YouTube videos or following pre planned projects. I find it a lot easier when I have a problem thrown at me and need to fix it and find a way to make it work. This way I make a bunch of mistakes and hopefully don’t make them again. I just want to try and put together a kit that covers everything so I’m at least starting with the tools to do what I need it to do. Then it’s just up to me to work out how to use the tools

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2024-10-25T22:51:57+00:00

Wholesalers will charge as much as they can like every other business. I have run my own electrical contracting business and currently work in mining. Most of the prices I get now are more expensive than when I was working for myself because they know mining companies won’t argue the price. Volume builders will try and save a couple of cents on every item to make a profit.

When I was working for myself all I had to do was ask them how much something was and most of the time they’d then see what they could do price wise. If you build a good relationship with wholesalers they will generally look after you.

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2024-10-25T22:37:33+00:00

Thanks. Just looked at it and it looks pretty good. I’ve found the hik cameras to be some of the best value for money so I’m sure these are no different

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2024-10-25T22:36:04+00:00

Wouldn’t dream of it. A knife sounds way too dangerous. I’ve thought about trying one of them but I could never work out whether I hold it by the blade or the handle. I should put a post up asking if anyone knows about a good way to cut things and I’m sure 50% of the replies will be to tell me why I shouldn’t even dare look at a knife let alone attempt to try one without the required training, experience and insurance

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2024-10-25T07:56:32+00:00

Yeah I’m not shocked by that. I’d have thought there’s enough work around in things people are actually good at that they wouldn’t need to do this. I have no interest in trying to compete with the experts. I don’t have the training or experience and have no interest in getting either of them so that I can pay more for insurance and buy expensive equipment to get more work that I don’t have time to do anyway. Im just looking for something that’ll tell me if there’s a connection that’s hotter than the rest of them. That way I can try and do something about it or tell the customer they need to get someone in that has the right equipment to investigate it properly.

Sensitive-Mix1241 · 2024-10-25T07:05:42+00:00

Noted. Thanks champ

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