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Articles in this section are intended to help electrical contractors grow and improve their businesses, from financial and legal advice to creating a service and maintenance department. You’ll find articles on estimating projects and more below. 

Variables affecting electric power quality haven’t changed significantly over the years, but the technological advances of electrical and electronic equipment make the equipment much more vulnerable to power quality events than in the past.

Copper remains a primary carrier for integrated building systems, but fiber optic cabling is assuming an increasingly important role in data, telephone, access controls, security cameras, fire and security alarms, sensors, and other signaling-dependent systems.


As recent storms have proven, extreme weather conditions threaten lives, disrupt the economy, and devastate electric generation, transmission and distribution systems, often resulting in very long power outages.

More than 174,000 workers in the electrical contracting industry—including the most-skilled electricians, linemen and technicians in the world—are covered by pension plans that are financed through contributions from them and their multiple employers, without costing taxpayers one cent.

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Taking Advantage of the Wireless Market
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In the United States, cellular service providers are hurrying to build communications towers to supply these Personal Communications Services (PCSs), and construction is expected to continue through the early part of the next century, at the very least.

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Sine Waves Help Determine Power Quality
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Writing while listening to the sounds of the ocean surf can be therapeutic. The rise and fall of the waves is like the sine wave of the ac voltage waveform that is often used as the basis to compare with the quality of the power supply.

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Prescribing the Right Medicine
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A plethora of solutions, often called “mitigating devices,” is being marketed for power quality-related problems. Choosing the best one for a particular facility and its problems is similar to prescribing the right medicine for an illness.

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Dollars and Sense
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The NECA convention products showcase and various industry magazines demonstrate that many preassembled components, tools, and methods can be incorporated into most projects.

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Gigabit Ethernet: Components and Standards Development
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By now, you know the big attraction of Gigabit Ethernet: it packages information just like classic Ethernet but moves the bits 100 times faster.

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Warranty-related and Recertification Training Programs Offered
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It’s not enough to offer customers an installed telecommunications infrastructure. In order to be successful, an electrical contractor has to guarantee that the system will work.

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Untangling Licensing Law Confusion
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Licensing statutes and regulations for contractors across the United States are not uniform. Each state, and oftentimes each county and city, has its own licensing requirements.

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