Electricians?

[second amendment]

Well moving right along from my any hvac guys here ......so any of you guys electricians?

[db3443]

yep, an industrial electrician at a steel mill

[75_stingray]

yep, an industrial electricianIndustrial electrician here too if needed SA!

[second amendment]

Just some qs
are you guys masters, how long did it take to get your licenses, and how is the money?

thanks

[Noah Zark]

I custom design, assemble, and program industrial controls and also do on-call troubleshooting although my (1978) degree is in mechanical engineering. I work beside industrial electricians all day on some days, and for the most part they seem pretty satisfied. Their compensation varies depending on whether union or not, but they all seem to knock down between $17 and $25 and hour, again depending. The highest paid one that I know of ($25) is in a non-union plant and he has all kinds of training on several different kinds of industrial PLCs and other specialized related equipment, not just motor starters and lighting contactors and such.

I know that I'd much rather be an electrician than an HVAC tech.

Noah

[hatedbysheeple]

My father is the head electrical supervisor for the Braidwood Nuclear station in Braidwood Illinois, when he first started it took him 2 or 3 years of OJT until he was a certified electrician, this was when he worked at a coal plant, 23 years later he makes 200,000 to 250,000 a year. I know the starting salary for an electrian at most power plants in IL is $25 an hour

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[75_stingray]

I worked with GE doing retrofits and new builds involving power distribution, automated controls and devices as well as fiber optics. On average I made between $8,000 and $10,000 a month. Lots of travel and overtime.

I went on to work at Robert Bosch Corp working along side the EE's building Robotic equipment used in Bosch plants throughout the US. The engineers would draw up the "E-Plan" prints, hand them to me, give me the timeline and walk away. I would be responsible for running and term's of all controls, limits and photoeyes, motors, PLC's, ect.........All the way to start up, check out, troubleshooting and final install. $25 an hour.

I was a surfer dude after highschool and realized that I had to learn something. I got myself into a 4 yr apprenticeship program and busted my ass.I worked myself from the bottom up!
It is what you make of it SA. I've even done a retrofit re-doing PLC's for a plant in Fl. which supplies liquid oxygen for NASA. Our timeline was based on an upcoming shuttle launch.
All from a highschool grad with 4 yrs of appenticeship!

[Makster]

I'm a Locomotive electrician working for a class 1 railroad. 5 years as a missile tech in the army gave me the electrical experience to get this job. Never took a college class. I made 57K before taxes last year...will be more this year.

[db3443]

I have 4 years in the Air Force as an electronics tech, when I got out I got my associates in electronics, after a few bench tech jobs, found out I could make MUCH more working on 3 phase and PLC's. I now work a rotating shift and schedule, but can make $80,000 a year if I want to work the overtime. And I love what I do, so I work ALOT of overtime! ;)

[second amendment]

Thanks for the replys guys, humor me here ......whats plcs?

[75_stingray]

Thanks for the replys guys, humor me here ......whats plcs?A PLC,(Programmable Logic Controller) is a computer like control device that reads input and energizes electrical devices called outputs based on a user programmable memory. This controls machinery or an industrial process.
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