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TEGG SERVICES
New TEGG Technicians
Have a Lot of Experience
Knights’ Electric, Inc.’s TEGG Services has two new technicians who, between them, have over 60 years of experience in the electrical industry. Ben English, who has over 40 years of electrical experience including 20 years at Knights’ Electric, and Frank Teuschler, with 20 years in the industry, 51/2 with Knights’ Electric, are the new TEGG Service technicians.
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English and Teuschler recently returned from TEGG Headquarters in Pittsburgh after their two weeks of training to become certified TEGG technicians. “We had people from all over the world, England, Scotland, Australia. There were 20 people in our training class and we were the highest scoring class TEGG has ever had.” said English. |
Ben English, Knights' Electric's TEGG
Service Manager and Certified Techician
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English has a strong background in commercial and industrial electrical systems including medium and high voltage, motor controls and planning, designing and building projects. English is also the Service Manager for Knights’ Electric’s TEGG Services. |
“Ben (English) is my mentor”, says Teuschler, who has worked mostly in the commercial department at Knights’ Electric. “Ben has a lot more experience than I do and he’s willing to help others any time and any place. I think a lot of people in the company look up to Ben because of what he knows and his willingness to help others.” |
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Frank Teuschler, Knights' Electric's
TEGG Certified Technician
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Both men are impressed with the TEGG process. “It’s a new venue for tracing electrical problems”, says Teuschler, “the ultrasound and infrared technology is superior.” “It used to be that you had to disassemble panels and machines to troubleshoot”, says English, “now with the technology we use that’s not necessary. It saves us time and it saves the client money.” |
WINERIES
Merry Edwards Winery
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Merry Edwards Winery on a foggy December morning near Graton
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Merry Edwards Winery, which is located on Hwy. 116 near Frei Road not far from the town of Graton, was recently completed by Koch Construction, the general contractor, who worked closely with the owners, Ken Coopersmith and winemaker Merry Edwards, to create the attractive 23,000 square foot facility.
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Knights' Electric, Inc. provided and installed the 800-amp main power switchboard that includes a solar system tie-in along with the distribution board, sub panels, and Lutron lighting control panels. Knights’ Electric also wired the chiller and four instant water heaters that work in a cascading sequence to provide the required amount of hot water needed for the winery in lieu of a boiler. |
Knights' Electric installed all of the control
wiring for the wine tanks in the tank room
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Knights’ Electric manufactured and installed 10 power stanchions containing a total 19 480-volt pin-and-sleeve safety receptacles located throughout the barrel room, tank room and crush pad. The pin-and-sleeve safety receptacles make it impossible to unplug pumps or other electrical machinery when they are in use. |
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Knights' Electric installed power receptacles
on the inside of the pillars surrounding
the crush pad
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| The crush area in front of the winery has surrounding pillars that house the power stanchions for the portable crush equipment and the production area includes an electric fermentation punch-down press as opposed to the traditional compressed air mechanism. This creates a more precise punch-down with better speed and depth control. |
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All of the production areas in the winery are illuminated with energy-saving fluorescent hi-bay fixtures. The office areas are lit with fluorescent direct/indirect fixtures. Cable-suspended low voltage fixtures by Tech Lighting L.L.C. illuminate the conference/wine tasting room.
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Knights' Electric installed energy-saving
fluorescent hi-bay fixtures in the production areas
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“This is one of the nicest wineries I’ve worked on”, says Richard Freitas, Knights’ Electric Commercial Project Manager. “This winery is a great example of how attention to detail can create a production environment that is also esthetically pleasing.” |
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Knights' Electric installed these cable-suspended
low-voltage fixtures in the conference/tasting room
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RESIDENTIAL
Unique Vineyard Home
Under Construction
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This view of the vineyard home shows the great room (first partition),
the south wing (middle) and the pool house (far right)
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A one-of-a-kind custom home that blends modern and classic elements is under construction in a vineyard setting in Napa Valley. Total Concepts is the general contractor. |
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The single-story main house is approximately 3,000 square feet with a great room that includes living, kitchen and dining space plus an indoor brick barbeque and pizza oven. Two wings off the great room create a courtyard in the middle with the master bedroom in one wing and additional living space and a wine cellar in the other wing. |
View from the courtyard shows the great room
with exposed steel ceiling beam (right)
and re-used tile ready to be installed
on roof of
the north wing (left)
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In addition to the main house there is also a detached garage, guest house and pool house. All of the building’s exterior walls are concrete and will be covered with stonework. The roofs will be covered with re-used tile. |
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The detached garage shown here
has the same basic exterior design
as the guest and pool houses
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Knights’ Electric, Inc. is installing two transformers, one at the gate and one behind the house with 1100 feet of underground conduit to make the connection to the PG&E main service. Knights’ Electric is also installing a distributed audio system with ceiling speakers and exterior wall mounted speakers for the courtyard and the pool. |
Knights' Electric's Tim Fogg
attaching wire to the wall framing
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The lighting design will consist of low-voltage track lighting in the great room, which has an exposed timber ceiling and three large exposed steel ceiling beams. There will also be four custom steel and wood wheel-shaped lighting structures, 12 feet in diameter, suspended from the ceiling. Knights’ Electric is installing Lutron HomeWorks lighting controls panels in two mechanical closets in the main house. |
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Knights' Electric's Thomas Lamburth
checks mechanical closet that contains
sub panels
for power distribution,
lighting controls and audio system controls
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“This is a tricky project to wire”, says Scott Cameron, Knights’ Electric’s Residential Project Manager, “There’s not a lot of access with the exposed ceilings and concrete walls. We ran conduit under the slab and we have a gutter along the great room ceiling, which will have a skylight running the length of the ceiling peak. When it's finished the lighting design should be quite stunning.
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