Nebraska Tech

01/25/2012

Seven years ago, a lineman was working in a bucket to change out an insulator on the middle phase of a three-phase line. He positioned his bucket between the center and outside phase to perform the work live. The transformer's stinger was connected to one of the phases. The lineman had his back to t...

01/09/2012

Another problem caused in our industry by CFL's and various current electronic devices, and some possible cures.

Ungrounding the capacitor bank reduces harmonics and neutral-to-earth voltages.

12/25/2011

Watch, I can't describe this

H/t Grumpy Opinions.

12/14/2011

Our work isn't quite this complicated but, I'm considering incorporating it into the training syllabus anyway.

Rockwell International decided to get into the heavy duty automatic transmission business. They were getting ready to tape their first introductory video. As...

12/07/2011

Some of the basics for lighting your home or business

Nebraska Tech is a small company with big ideas. We offer a range of products and services for commercial and residential customers.

11/29/2011

Let's be careful out there!

11/26/2011

This is a Nebraska Tech job that I wrote about on my personal blog, it's also available on our website.

We just finished up a job for a local Ag equipment dealer. As usual it had its challenges and problems but, it was instructive how when we were all working to a common goal, problems become molehil...

11/24/2011

Happy Thanksgiving

11/23/2011

In the “lean” world, a lot of time is spent in determining which of your processes are “Value Added”, “Non-Value Added but Necessary” or “Non-Value Added”. There are a lot of defini...