Electrical Product Resources

Guide to Wiring a Lighting Contactor for Precise Control

Lighting control is critical for increasing energy efficiency and producing an safe environment in situations, including residential, commercial, and industrial settings. Lighting contactors for lighting control are needed for accurate control of lighting systems in facilities and temporary power for a jobsite.. This post will lead you through the procedure of wiring a lighting contactor step by step. Understanding how to connect a lighting contactor is critical for effective and dependable lighting management.

How to Wire Electric Contactors in Electric Motors

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Knowing how to wire an electrical contactor in industrial and commercial applications is an important step for managing electric motor operation. This post reviews electrical contactor wiring, how electric contactors work, and introduces standard electrical contactor wiring diagram instructions to help you when selecting and installing Contact Kits and Motor Control Parts.

Electrical Parts for Portable Solar Power Stations

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Standard Electrical Parts Converge with Portable Solar Energy The thought of solar power needing electricity is counter intuitive at first, but there’s a symbiotic link between solar power and electricity. Solar panels don’t require electricity to create power from sunlight, but they do require electrical equipment, specifically inverters, to transform the generated direct current electricity …

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Jobsite Temporary Electrical Power Restoring Services After Hurricane Idalia

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Site Assessment and Selection: Emergency management teams are assessing impacted areas to determine the most suitable locations for setting up temporary power stations. These locations are chosen using factors such as proximity to critical facilities, accessibility, and potential for efficient power distribution. Station Setup: Once sites are identified, temporary power stations are being transported to …

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Temporary, Portable Electric Power Stations in Hawaii Wildfires

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Deploying Temporary Electrical Power Skids for Firefighting and Emergency Response Local emergency management authorities worked with utility companies and other groups to deploy electric portable power in critical locations for the Pu’u Wa’awa’a Fire. Restoring power was a main goal in fire-affected areas, ensuring emergency services, evacuation centers and communication networks remained operational. Supporting Firefighting …

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Temporary Electrical Power for Natural Disasters

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5 Reasons Temporary Electrical Power is a Lifeline When Disaster Strikes Wildfire Support: Support during wildfire disasters includes power to command centers for battling fires, allowing for real-time observation and communication. Additionally, the skids provide power to portable water pumping stations used to put out fires in remote locations with damaged power infrastructure. They make it easier …

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Temporary Electrical Power for Manufacturing Facility Power Outages Support Productivity and Profit

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Temporary Electrical Power for Your Grid, Equipment Failures, Natural Disasters Power Outages Disrupt Profit and Productivity A reliable power supply is essential for successfully operating manufacturing facilities’ advanced equipment and automated production lines. The unexpected power outage interferes with manufacturing procedures, causing delays in completing customer orders and missing delivery deadlines. Companies incur fines and lose …

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Dry Type Encapsulated Power Distribution Transformer Sizes, Applications and Maintenance

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Encapsulated Versus Non-Encapsulated Dry Power Transformers Encapsulated (non-exposed) dry-type power distribution transformers, also known as cast-resin transformers, provide better protection, environmental friendliness, and require less maintenance, while non-encapsulated transformers offer flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and potentially higher efficiency. You may also hear them called non-oil filled transformers, a reference to Oil-filled transformers which use liquid for cooling. …

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Installing Electrical Subpanel, Breakers, Wiring for Load Protection and Electrical Safety

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An electrical subpanel is a reliable assistant to a main electrical panel. The subpanel distributes the workload by handling specific circuits. The electrical subpanel and the main panel are a dynamic duo that together manage the electrical system. If you’re not experienced with electrical subpanel installation, grounding, load requirements, testing and electrical codes, consult a licensed electrician…

Upgrading, Replacing or Installing Your Electrical Switchboard?

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Are you looking into the cost of upgrading, replacing or installing an electrical switchboard for your facility or building power distribution system? This is a big decision, and to understand just how important switchboards are, let’s look at an analogy that helps explain what electric power switchboards are and what they do in your facility.

Replacing or Retrofitting a Lighting Control Panelboard?

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If you’re replacing, retrofitting or upgrading a Lighting Control Panelboard, it helps to know that your lighting panelboard will have different installation and maintenance requirements than a power distribution panelboard.

Replacing an Electrical Power Distribution Panelboard?

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You’re probably familiar with the electrical distribution panel in your home when your lights have gone out because electrical appliances overloaded the system. In this article we’re going to expand on what you know and look at what’s inside heavy-duty Electric Power Distribution Panelboards in industrial and commercial buildings.

Contactors: Introduction, Types, Functions, and More

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Contactors are the unsung heroes of modern-day electrical systems. These often-overlooked devices play a crucial role in keeping our homes, businesses, and industries running smoothly. Contactors are versatile and widely used in industrial, commercial, and residential applications. Some applications you might recognize include electric motors, lighting circuits, and heating and cooling systems. Suffice to say, contactors ensure the safe and reliable operation of electrical systems and equipment…

Panelboards

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Need to add accessories (shunt trips, auxiliary switches, metering options, etc.) to your board? Have provisions and other specifications or preferences for your build? Customization can greatly enhance the functionality and efficiency of your electrical distribution system while ensuring it aligns with your unique needs. Our team can assess your specific requirements and ensure that the customization meets safety and code compliance standards. Let us know what you need and we will help you design a panelboard that meets your specific project requirements.

Sell To Us

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Sell us your used/surplus electrical equipment and make extra cash! Easy transactions, quick payment, and top prices. Why sell your used equipment? Asset liquidation – At any business, there comes a time when a good spring cleaning is necessary. You may find that your business has excess stock or surplus assets that you no longer need. Recycling – The amount of electrical & electronic equipment waste has risen steadily over the last decade…

Temporary Power Solutions

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Our experienced Sales Engineers will help streamline the design process. We will work with our production team to meet your tightest delivery requirements with most temp power orders shipping within 1-2 weeks ARO. With temp power constantly changing, RESA is very flexible and responsive with change orders right up to the ship date. You are not stuck with the material once the job is complete. RESA offers both guaranteed buy-back and rental options to help keep your net costs down.

Contactors

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Relectric offers a wide variety of low voltage contactors. NEMA & IEC standards. Open & enclosed options. For motor circuits, lighting circuits, and control circuits. Popular manufacturers (siemens, general electric, and more). New, used, and recertified (professionally tested with guaranteed performance). A contactor is an electrical device that switches an electrical power circuit on and off. Contactors can switch thousands of amps in low and medium voltage 3-phase systems…

Ground Fault and Arc Fault 101

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Ground fault and arc fault are sometimes used interchangeably but they are actually two separate things. Ground fault is a type of short circuit sometimes known as “short to ground.” It happens when current going out on ungrounded phase (energized “hot” current) accidentally makes contact with a ground path. Electricity always wants to find a path to ground. Sometimes this unintentional path to ground is a person’s body. Ground fault causes electric shock that could be severe or fatal to people…

Coronavirus – How to Keep the Power On

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Coronavirus is the buzzword. We are making history in our current state of global pandemic. If you’ve been living under a rock, COVID-19 is a disease that affects the respiratory cells. More specifically, SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that enters the respiratory cells, replicates, and proliferates throughout the lungs, causing pneumonia. We won’t get too deep in the science, but let’s talk about what’s happening outside and what this means for electrical contractors…

5 Tips on How to Choose a Reliable Surplus Electrical Vendor

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Price is usually one of the main deciding factors that people look for when buying anything. However, we all know that not all vendors are created equally – so to speak. Opting for a vendor because of their cheaper price points may become expensive in the long run. There are better ways to choose a …

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