Twelve and a half years of plant electrical and automation work changes how you diagnose a house. Bobby Shaver on chasing intermittent faults, measuring under load, and reading a panel like a system.
Most landscape lighting on Lake Norman fails at the wire, the transformer, and the connections, not the fixtures. Voltage drop, brass versus aluminum, and what survives NC clay.
The transfer switch decides what your generator can actually do. Manual vs automatic, service-entrance rated vs an essential-circuits subpanel, and how load management changes the math on NC homes.
What Type 1 and Type 2 surge devices actually protect, why the ground path matters more than the joule rating, and how Bobby scopes surge protection for NC homes.
What NEC Article 555 requires on a Lake Norman dock: 30mA ground-fault protection, equipotential bonding, boat lift circuits, signage, and annual testing, explained plainly.
Why east Charlotte and Plaza Midwood ranch homes from the 1950s to 70s outgrow their panels, and how a load-calc-first service upgrade is scoped and permitted in Mecklenburg County.
Installing a Level 2 EV charger at a South End or Dilworth townhome or condo in Charlotte, NC. The run length, metering, HOA, and load calc that decide a clean, permitted install.
What the electrical scope on an uptown Charlotte tenant upfit actually involves: load calc against the new use, panel capacity, permit and inspection, and working around business hours.
Planning the lighting for a South End or NoDa retail upfit in Charlotte, NC. Fixture count, LED payback, controls, and how the permit and the schedule around business hours work.
Why Charlotte’s tree canopy drives long power outages in Myers Park, Eastover, and east Charlotte, and how a load-sized standby generator with an automatic transfer switch is scoped.
