hi votage help

[wireman1]

a new plant is moving into our industrial park and buliding their own sub station and will be buying 69000 from the local utiltyand maintaing the sub station . the project mgr asked me what would be the approxmate cost of the inspection. i dont do hi vottage insections and some of the inspectors i know don't. any one know a approxmate cost?

 

[dcspector]

wireman,

We have a similar project out here for one of those buildings here in DC....you know... "if I told ya I'd have to kill ya"..:grin: Pepco our poco has made arrangements for those inspections and we begin ours at the building. I am not saying thats the way things are done in your neck of the woods, but here......let some one else do it. I would not even know what the heck I was looking at.

 

[brian john]

Find a local company that specializes in electrical testing and maintenance, make sure they understand you want their top man, same man, for every inspection.

 

[zog]

a new plant is moving into our industrial park and buliding their own sub station and will be buying 69000 from the local utiltyand maintaing the sub station . the project mgr asked me what would be the approxmate cost of the inspection. i dont do hi vottage insections and some of the inspectors i know don't. any one know a approxmate cost?

This is what I do, the specs probally call for someone certified to do this work that means NICET or NETA certified.

Put your state in here and call one of these guys, or if you want to tell us where you are I can make some recommendations.

http://www.netaworld.org/memberlist.cfm?categoryID=7

 

[acrwc10]

Fly BrianJohn in and pay him extra. He is the only one I would use for such work.

 

[zog]

Fly BrianJohn in and pay him extra. He is the only one I would use for such work.

Better use a cargo plane, lots of test equipment needed for a job like this, plus as I said, most subs like this require NETA certified testing.

 

[brian john]

As Zog knows I was NETA in the past but am no longer associated with that organization. I do work with around NETA contractors (DC has a wealth of NETA firms).

As the guy I learned most of my testing from use to say "This ain't wire nut voltage", you need a inspector that knows his stuff.

 

[zog]

As Zog knows I was NETA in the past but am no longer associated with that organization. I do work with around NETA contractors (DC has a wealth of NETA firms).

As the guy I learned most of my testing from use to say "This ain't wire nut voltage", you need a inspector that knows his stuff.

I am ex-NETA too, some specs say needs to be done by NETA certified tech and company, some say test to NETA standards, big difference.

 

[brian john]

Zog:

We have contested this issue several times and the customer/engineer/owner wavied the requirement in all but one case.

 

[acrwc10]

As the guy I learned most of my testing from use to say "This ain't wire nut voltage", you need a inspector that knows his stuff.

CLASSIC

 

[zog]

Zog:

We have contested this issue several times and the customer/engineer/owner wavied the requirement in all but one case.

We have discussed this issue also, seems to be different all over the country but it comes down to the way the spec is written, if they want certified testing (NETA or NICET) they can put it in the specs. Some installations will required certified testing by the insurance carriers.

TEGG tried getting around the certification issue by sending guys to a week long class and handing them a flash suit and a NETA MTS and ATS and saying it was the same thing.