Electrical Industry Articles and Stories

With an increasing array of power, data and AV cables snaking through office buildings and factories, high capacity and versatile “poke throughs” to thread them through office floors are becoming ever more important.

Hubbell is promoting its SystemOne 10-inch fire-rated poke through as the industry’s highest capacity with the most dynamic versatility for all phases of construction new build or retrofits.

As an industrial electrician, I've installed miles of conduit. And of course, once installed, even more miles of cables and conductors had to be snaked through it.

Even with raceways, it's always at least a two-step process – raceway, then conductors.

Of course, that will always be a part of many installations.

One of big problems with installing too many “smart” devices in the home can be that users can sometimes feel too “dumb” (or at least confused/frustrated or under informed) to connect them all.

The Ascend 7-Day, In-Wall Programmable Timer is designed to take away that feeling or reservation. Made by Intermatic, the Ascend is designed to allow contractors easy installation and homeowners seamless access to a wide range of high-tech applications such as lighting and security/access control.

Sorry for the play on words. Couldn't resist.

Even though the headline's kind of funny, power distribution is no laughing matter, right?

In major commercial and industrial construction, getting your electrical distribution network is a vital part of the job. Face it … everything runs on electricity.

Emerson says it has introduced the world’s first hybrid panel board designed to serve as a single point of control for both power and fiber communications to serve the burgeoning Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market.

The company’s Appleton PlexPower Fiber Panel is specifically designed for hazardous locations such as petrochemical plants, chemical plants, wastewater treatment centers, pulp/paper facilities, corrosive indoor and outdoor environments and other locales where flammable gases or vapors are present.

One fact is hard to miss if you’ve spent any time on electrical jobsites lately – electrical contractors are getting older. In fact, according to Electrical Contractor Magazine’s 2018 survey of electrical contractors, contractors’ average age has topped 58 years old, up a full year since the publication’s 2016 poll.