Excellent interview Nate with Dustin he genuinely is a nice person and a RUclips channel where one can be entertained and learn something regardless of your electrical abilities.
Hi Nate glad to see you guys getting together! I'm an industrial air compressor mechanic and do a lot of control wiring from 24-575 volts , me and my sone built his new house last summer and I watched a lot of Dustins videos, wired the whole house and passed inspection on the first try Dustin really helped a lot!! We installed a 200 amp service with generator switch gear! Hello from The Granite State, keep up the good work!!!
This is gold for someone like me who will be starting his electrical career this year. Instead of listening to stand up comedy while driving, I will start listening to electrician podcasts and interviews. My brain is a sponge wanting to absorb the experiences of electrical trade workers like Dustin.
I started in electrical and now a gc, Dustins channel is great. He explains things well, you will get good takeaways from it. Grab you an NEC book and start going through it also. Are you jumping into commercial or resi?
I am fascinated by Dustin's vision of using blockchain to facilitate diagnostics and service. A permanent change-by-change record using blockchain is a wonderful way to know who did what and when. What a vision.
At low frequencies (60hz is low), the conductivity is the same, the higher the frequency, the more skin effect has effect. Solid wires are easier to terminate, Stranded wires are easier to pull through conduit.
I am fairly comfortable with basic residential electricity I remodeled and re-wired my whole house and hired an electrician to come in and hook up the main panel and inspect the rest of my work. With a little research and a few questions there is no mystery to it. I am surprised how many people are scared to even change an outlet or switch in their houses.
I love electrical, was an apprentice for 7 years just got my journeyman's license in December. It's a fantastic and varied career. Highly recommended, also like Dustin said, find your niche. I personally love residential and helping out the little guy. It makes me feel good at the end of the day as opposed to helping Amazon. Side note, the IoT or Internet of Things scares me half to death. It's like every sci-fi movie is coming true. There was an analogy I heard once that anything connected to the internet is essentially like being in a giant office or room. Sure your smart fridge or laptop or whatever might have some security or firewall but it is essentially just a cubicle wall and there are always ways to hack around and misuse items connected to the internet. Just my personal view.
Solid vs Stranded, I would expect a Master Electrician to illuminate the need to use stranded and therefore more flexible conductors when pulling them through conduit especially on longer runs.
As an Electrical Engineer, there is a consensus and electricity is not a theory. Sure, you can explain in different ways but it all comes back to the same subatomic particles. I understand that Dustin is still early in his electrical career.
I agree, the textbook explanation of electrical theory has been pretty stable in providing electricians a basis for understanding the operation of electricity. Once an electrician understands the fundamental movement of electricity and can use ohms law to determine function, not much thought goes into how an electrical charge displaces valance electrons and such lol. Old timers used to say that the Pixies 🧚♀️ were angry when they touched a live circuit 😆
The light you see from an electric arc is the result of the air being converted to plasma - air as a gas can't conduct electricity because it isn't ionized - and the ions in the plasma recombining and losing energy.
The more you specialize a trade the wider the pay and skill gap goes. I used to be plumbing/HVAC, electrical, and carpentry. A good and versatile carpenter with a wide arrangement of tools and the skills to use those tools used to be worth said carpenters weight in gold. Now there are framers, finish carpenters, drywallers, roofers, siding guys, cabinet installers, shit even form builders all used to be in the carpenters envelope. Now its all specialized and the individual installers aren't as valuable because they are no longer versatile
Hey Scott I’m a guy here in NJ 26, with a wife and son idk what to do I’m stuck between carpentry and electric truly. I don’t even know if it makes economic sense to become a carpenter at this point in time with the price of lumber. I don’t know how to choose which one to dive fully into. Any tips? I know in the electrical field from what I can gather you should be doing an accredited apprenticeship program like the IBEW (if you’re fortunate enough to get it) I didn’t seem like just going to work for a guy and hope he teaches you cuts it in electrical with the license needed and all. Idk.
I would recommend trying out as an electrical apprentice if possible. Even if you start at a low rate the opportunity for growth is exponential and as long as you hustle and go to school.soon after to get your license you will be set with a great career. Hope it all works out for you and your family
Now matter how technical electrics get in industrial contracting you may be able to have better control ,power factor correction and investors but you won't bring the cable sizes down in any great percentage
I'm afraid in my country the electrical contracting industry is in the mud,in my day the industrial and commercial side the client would have a independent specialised company controlling contracts and would employ electrical clerk of works who would throughout the length of the contract go through the methods and material used with a fine tooth comb making sure that the installation is installed to the specification and get you to correct it or fail the installation,but I'm afraid that doesn't happen now,there are no clerk of works on contracts,I've worked for the biggest companies in England and on the largest contracts and you get electrical companies fault finding and inspecting their own work,and health and safety has become a reason to rip off electricians having to take the same tests every 3 years at a huge cost to them without any sound basis for taking these tests it's gone crazy,they are trying to downgrade the skill of the trade and pay electricians mates to do the job of the electricians but most of them are clueless and very dangerous especially when they work for small companies,so in one way I'm glad I'm out of it,because to me luckily I worked in the industry when it was at its best.
And my RUclips worlds collide..👍🏻👍🏻
Wow, I usually don't listen to entire podcasts. Well done. Dustin makes electricity sound cool and fun.
Dustin thank you. Been following for years. Practical theory is fascinating
Excellent interview Nate with Dustin he genuinely is a nice person and a RUclips channel where one can be entertained and learn something regardless of your electrical abilities.
Hi Nate glad to see you guys getting together! I'm an industrial air compressor mechanic and do a lot of control wiring from 24-575 volts , me and my sone built his new house last summer and I watched a lot of Dustins videos, wired the whole house and passed inspection on the first try Dustin really helped a lot!! We installed a 200 amp service with generator switch gear! Hello from The Granite State, keep up the good work!!!
This is gold for someone like me who will be starting his electrical career this year. Instead of listening to stand up comedy while driving, I will start listening to electrician podcasts and interviews. My brain is a sponge wanting to absorb the experiences of electrical trade workers like Dustin.
I started in electrical and now a gc, Dustins channel is great. He explains things well, you will get good takeaways from it. Grab you an NEC book and start going through it also. Are you jumping into commercial or resi?
YES! This was unexpected.... been following him for a while
Nice to see what happening in the USA in the electrical trade,I'm from England and have retired after 50 years as an Industrial electrician
Really appreciate talking to him. Learning heaps. Thanks ❤️
I am fascinated by Dustin's vision of using blockchain to facilitate diagnostics and service. A permanent change-by-change record using blockchain is a wonderful way to know who did what and when. What a vision.
At low frequencies (60hz is low), the conductivity is the same, the higher the frequency, the more skin effect has effect. Solid wires are easier to terminate, Stranded wires are easier to pull through conduit.
Awesome interview. Dustin and his in Electrician U is one of my favorite learning medium for most things electrical.
I am fairly comfortable with basic residential electricity I remodeled and re-wired my whole house and hired an electrician to come in and hook up the main panel and inspect the rest of my work. With a little research and a few questions there is no mystery to it. I am surprised how many people are scared to even change an outlet or switch in their houses.
Real teachers know you have to be able to explain a topic at many different levels, and different students need different styles/approaches.
Smart guy and great interview Nate! I’m going to check out his channel. GREAT SHOW!!!
I love electrical, was an apprentice for 7 years just got my journeyman's license in December. It's a fantastic and varied career. Highly recommended, also like Dustin said, find your niche. I personally love residential and helping out the little guy. It makes me feel good at the end of the day as opposed to helping Amazon.
Side note, the IoT or Internet of Things scares me half to death. It's like every sci-fi movie is coming true. There was an analogy I heard once that anything connected to the internet is essentially like being in a giant office or room. Sure your smart fridge or laptop or whatever might have some security or firewall but it is essentially just a cubicle wall and there are always ways to hack around and misuse items connected to the internet. Just my personal view.
This is priceless 😂😂 !!!
Nobody really knows what electricity really is, according to the Theory of Dustin & Ooga-Booga 😂😂 !!!
Solid vs Stranded, I would expect a Master Electrician to illuminate the need to use stranded and therefore more flexible conductors when pulling them through conduit especially on longer runs.
Stranded sucks to terminate. I mean, it sucs nore than NM
As an Electrical Engineer, there is a consensus and electricity is not a theory. Sure, you can explain in different ways but it all comes back to the same subatomic particles. I understand that Dustin is still early in his electrical career.
Cool story pal.
Hey Fred, you are wrongo !!!
Have you not heard of the recent explanation of electricity, according to the Theory of Dustin & Ooga-Booga 😂😂😂 !!!
I agree, the textbook explanation of electrical theory has been pretty stable in providing electricians a basis for understanding the operation of electricity. Once an electrician understands the fundamental movement of electricity and can use ohms law to determine function, not much thought goes into how an electrical charge displaces valance electrons and such lol. Old timers used to say that the Pixies 🧚♀️ were angry when they touched a live circuit 😆
@@rodjacksn You are entitled to your opinion.
Electricity is a theory. That’s not an opinion. It’s a fact. You must not be a very good electrical engineer.
Excellent topic! You can really nerd out on this!
The light you see from an electric arc is the result of the air being converted to plasma - air as a gas can't conduct electricity because it isn't ionized - and the ions in the plasma recombining and losing energy.
I heard a wise person say, " Just because things have changed and are changing doesn't mean it's always better. "
Hello Dustin I’m 6 years apprentice license what to do to get masters electrician.
You're probably already on it but bar z industrial would be a good episode.
Can u use a 125 panel for 100 amp service?
The more you specialize a trade the wider the pay and skill gap goes. I used to be plumbing/HVAC, electrical, and carpentry. A good and versatile carpenter with a wide arrangement of tools and the skills to use those tools used to be worth said carpenters weight in gold. Now there are framers, finish carpenters, drywallers, roofers, siding guys, cabinet installers, shit even form builders all used to be in the carpenters envelope. Now its all specialized and the individual installers aren't as valuable because they are no longer versatile
Hey Scott I’m a guy here in NJ 26, with a wife and son idk what to do I’m stuck between carpentry and electric truly. I don’t even know if it makes economic sense to become a carpenter at this point in time with the price of lumber. I don’t know how to choose which one to dive fully into. Any tips? I know in the electrical field from what I can gather you should be doing an accredited apprenticeship program like the IBEW (if you’re fortunate enough to get it) I didn’t seem like just going to work for a guy and hope he teaches you cuts it in electrical with the license needed and all. Idk.
I would recommend trying out as an electrical apprentice if possible. Even if you start at a low rate the opportunity for growth is exponential and as long as you hustle and go to school.soon after to get your license you will be set with a great career. Hope it all works out for you and your family
Why are light fixtures allowed to have janky stranded aluminum wire?
They is typically silver plated or nickel plated for high temperature rating-quite the opposite of aluminum.
It's copper wire. The silver is called "tinning" it's just an outside coating to lessen corrosion
Now matter how technical electrics get in industrial contracting you may be able to have better control ,power factor correction and investors but you won't bring the cable sizes down in any great percentage
I'm afraid in my country the electrical contracting industry is in the mud,in my day the industrial and commercial side the client would have a independent specialised company controlling contracts and would employ electrical clerk of works who would throughout the length of the contract go through the methods and material used with a fine tooth comb making sure that the installation is installed to the specification and get you to correct it or fail the installation,but I'm afraid that doesn't happen now,there are no clerk of works on contracts,I've worked for the biggest companies in England and on the largest contracts and you get electrical companies fault finding and inspecting their own work,and health and safety has become a reason to rip off electricians having to take the same tests every 3 years at a huge cost to them without any sound basis for taking these tests it's gone crazy,they are trying to downgrade the skill of the trade and pay electricians mates to do the job of the electricians but most of them are clueless and very dangerous especially when they work for small companies,so in one way I'm glad I'm out of it,because to me luckily I worked in the industry when it was at its best.
I've been doing electrical for 22 years. Its horrible. I dont like it. I want out.
That's Sad Been in the Trade over 40 Years. Learning Every Day and Enjoying the Challenge
It’s a love hate relationship
I've been doing it for 14 years and I love it I wouldn't do anything else
genuinely caring about people makes a difference in people's lives.. hmmmmmm that can't work, can it??? Yeah its that easy.