Tell me why

[ptonsparky]

Can you tell me why someone would invest $100,000 in refrigeration equipment, have all but installed, then call an electrician?

Nope, they don't.

 

[Sierrasparky]

Can you tell me why someone would invest $100,000 in refrigeration equipment, have all but installed, then call an electrician?

Nope, they don't.

what is Nope, they don't?

I would think that the refrig guy sold a bill of goods less electrical and the owner did not like the electrician picked. or

The job required a licensed electrician and the owner was going to use somone else.

or

The original electrician saw a problem and backed out.

Who knows. I would ask the owner and tell him you are not going to work for him unless he is going to be straight with you.

 

[augie47]

"all you have to do is plug it in"

 

[satcom]

Can you tell me why someone would invest $100,000 in refrigeration equipment, have all but installed, then call an electrician?

Nope, they don't.

That is an easy answer the HVAC guy wanted a decent price to install it, they he found out electricians work cheap.

 

[petersonra]

Could be he did not realize it required any electrical work when he bought it.

We had a customer one time that bought a machine that came in without controls because he did not realize he had ordered it without the option for the control system.

I heard a story once about a guy that thought he had ordered a VFD and new spindle motor for his mill. To get the old motor off he ended up cutting the shaft off. When they opened up the box of new parts there was no motor, just a VFD. He had ordered the wrong option off the proposal. OOOPs.

 

[growler]

Can you tell me why someone would invest $100,000 in refrigeration equipment, have all but installed, then call an electrician?

Nope, they don't.

When you say "all but installed" are you saying they did the electrical or that they just waited until the last to get an EC to do the electrical?

I have been called out ot hook three phase equipment up to a single phase panel. You would think someone would have noticed earlier but it does happen.

 

[ptonsparky]

They have an mcc but no room in the existing for a 200 hp. We will have to add a section but turn a corner first. Haven't done that before so had to get the mfg involved. Bunch of stuff to move and rewire just to find room. Their normal day to day electrcian didn't think he could handle it by himself. Rightly so.

 

[Cow]

People do that kind of stuff all the time, almost like it's SOP. I can't count how many times I've told customers that if they would of paid us for just one hour of our time it would of saved them a ton of money or at least gave them a heads up on what they're getting into.

I especially preach that to customers who trench through their own underground conduits then call us to fix it.:roll: "You know we have a locator that will mark those out, right?"