Electrician Dandenong

Dandenong is the industrial end of our service area, and the work here looks nothing like an inner-east switchboard job. Manufacturing, warehousing and workshops mean three-phase supply, real machinery and installations where an outage stops production rather than inconveniencing a household.

Machine feeds and maximum demand

New plant arrives with a nameplate and an assumption that the site can run it. Whether that is true depends on maximum demand calculated against the actual equipment on site, not a rule of thumb. That calculation decides the cable size and, more importantly, whether the existing supply is adequate at all. Done before the machine is ordered, it is a short piece of work. Done after it arrives, it is a delay.

Supply upgrades run on the distributor’s timeline

Anything that increases supply involves your electricity distributor, who owns everything to the point of attachment. Approval typically runs one to three weeks and is outside our control. If plant is landing on a date, the application has to be lodged well before it.

Motors running hot, tripping or failing early

Three common causes and all three are measurable: voltage imbalance between phases, protection that is incorrectly rated, and a starting arrangement that does not suit the load. An hour with an instrument identifies which. Replacing a motor without doing that usually buys you the same failure again.

Discrimination on multi-tenancy sites

On a shared industrial site, a fault in one tenancy should trip that tenancy rather than the main. Whether it does depends on how the protection is coordinated, and that only becomes visible on the day something fails. It is worth asking about before then.

Switchboards and schedules

A commercial board with no schedule costs money every time anyone works on it. Identifying, testing and labelling every circuit, and leaving a current schedule on the board, turns a half day of investigation into half an hour.

Getting to you

Dandenong is the furthest of our regular commercial areas, forty to fifty minutes from Hawthorn East. Planned and scheduled work is straightforward and we commit to a window. For breakdowns we will tell you honestly on the phone what time we can be on site, because a realistic answer is more use to you than an optimistic one.