Knights' Electric, Inc. LIC. #432135

Knights’ Electric, Inc. and TEGG Services are inviting commercial facility managers to attend a two-day seminar, November 4 & 5 covering Arc Flash Safety and Electrical Preventive Maintenance, at the North Coast Builders Exchange located at 1030 Apollo Way in Santa Rosa.

The two-day seminar will be conducted by John H. Waggoner, Director of Technical Training for TEGG Corporation.  He is certified in numerous testing disciplines as well as energized safe work places.  Day one on Nov. 4 will cover Arc Flash Safety and day two on Nov. 5 will cover Electrical Preventive Maintenance.

The Arc Flash Safety seminar on day one will cover 1) Causes and Consequences of Arc Flash, 2) Arc Flash Boundary Limits, 3) Arc Flash Calculations, 4) Personal Protection Equipment (PPE). 

The Electrical Preventive Maintenance seminar on day two will cover 1) Frequency of Electrical Maintenance, 2) Energized Testing Procedures, 3) De-energized Testing Procedures, 4) Trending of Maintenance. For seminar details and registeration form click here.

To review the Knights’ Electric – TEGG Service two-day seminar and register to attend click here.   

Knights’ Electric, Inc.’s commercial department often works with PG&E when the grid power to a facility needs to be “cut-over” to a new electrical service that is being installed.  That’s the case at Liberty Valley Doors in Cotati.

Knights’ Electric is installing a new 1200-amp, 277/480-volt main electrical service panel which will feed power to the facility and also receive power produced from a new solar electric system that includes solar panels on the entire roof of the  warehouse.

Liberty Valley Doors took the day off since the power was shut down while the new connections were being made which made this a one-day job.  PG&E removed the old power pole and installed new pole-mounted hardware for the connection of new primary cables, which feed power to the entire facility. 

After Knights’ Electric completes the cabling and wiring for the new electrical service panel and existing sub panels PG&E will make the final connections to restore power.  “PG&E is good to work with”, says Art Knight, Vice President and Commercial Manager for Knights’ Electric.  “They have their procedures and paperwork, but on the job they do what they have to do to get the job done, just like us.”

Knights’ Electric also installed a new 300KVA transformer to create 800-amps of 120/240-volt three-phase power that will distribute power to the existing 120/240-volt service panels.  Knights’ Electric provided and installed the utility transformer on a hill above the warehouse, which takes the 12,000-volt grid power from PG&E and transformers it to the 480/277-volt power needed for the new 1200-amp main service panel.

When the project is completed the solar power system will deliver enough power to run the entire facility at Liberty Valley Doors , which includes the office building and showroom plus the warehouse and production area.

After 19 years at Knights’ Electric, Inc. Mike Rose has learned a few things including how much he enjoys sharing his knowledge.  “You can’t take it to the grave”, says Rose, “I take pride in my workmanship and I’ve been around long enough to know if you share that with the younger guys it’s going to help them and make things easier for them when they meet up with situations on their own.”

Rose is well versed in all areas of electrical work, but motor controls is what he enjoys the most.  “Motor controls are interesting and challenging – I like challenges.”  Rose learned his trade working for Louisiana-Pacific Lumber Company.  He worked there 18 years before coming to Knights’ Electric and learned the finer points of motor controls while working in lumber mills as a millwright and electrician.

Rose has worked on numerous commercial projects involving motor controls and he says bottling lines are the most challenging.  “We did a bottling line for Pokka (now AmCan) that had over an acre of conveyers – that was a complicated set-up.  The bottling line for Kendall-Jackson at their Skylane facility was very high tech with a lot of PLC’s (Programmable Logic Controllers).”

Art Knight, Vice President and Commercial Manager, had this to say about Mike Rose, “He’s a model employee.  He is very valuable to the company.  He’s a motivator, a teacher and he’s always thinking ahead.”