Electrical service in New Holland
New Holland sits in the middle of some of the densest farmland in the county, and it gave its name to a machinery brand that started here in 1895 as a two man repair shop. Both of those things describe our work here: farms on every road out of town, and machines that have to be connected, started and proved.
Around thirty minutes from Myerstown, out through Blue Ball.
Machines arrive with a drawing that stops at the terminal block
Equipment manufacturing and equipment dealing are both part of the economy here, and the electrical job that comes with a machine is always the same shape. The manual describes the machine. It rarely tells you the fault current the panel has to handle, the lug size the incoming conductors land on, what the control transformer taps are set for, or whether the drawing in the box matches the machine that shipped.
Sorting that out on site is most of the work of connecting a machine, and it is exactly what a quote written from the manual misses. Two examples are connecting a machine to motor control and instrument racks and process wiring.
Plain sect farms and what changes on them
A large share of the farms around New Holland, Blue Ball and out toward Intercourse are Old Order. Some have no utility connection at all, some take power only in specific buildings, and many run equipment from diesel, hydraulic or air systems instead. What any given operation permits is decided by its own church district, not by a rule we can look up.
So the first conversation is about what the operation actually uses and what it does not, and then we work to that. Generators, inverters and 12 volt systems are ordinary here rather than unusual.
Around New Holland
Main Street and the borough commercial core
Equipment manufacturing and dealerships
Earl Township farm ground
Blue Ball and the 322 and 23 junction
Plain sect farms toward Intercourse and Bird in Hand
Machine and fabrication shops around the borough
What we are called for
The work New Holland asks us for
Machine connection and start up
New equipment taken from the vendor drawing to the terminal block, started, rotation proved and handed over running.
Overloads sized to the nameplate
The device that actually protects a winding is not the breaker, which is why most cooked motors were cooked.
Dairy and poultry wiring
Parlour and bulk tank circuits, ventilation and controllers, scheduled around milking rather than around us.
Service entrances rebuilt round a yard
A yard fed by taps off whichever panel happened to be nearest, put back onto one distribution point.
Shop and pole building wiring
Welder receptacles, compressor circuits and lighting, wired from the empty shell or added to what is there.
Generators for shops and yards
Sized around what genuinely cannot stop on the yard, then proved by opening the supply rather than by a start button.
Working in New Holland
- Yes, and the first thing we ask is what the operation uses and what it does not, because that varies by district rather than by a rule anybody can look up. Generator, inverter and 12 volt work is ordinary for us.
Worth reading
Motors and controls
A three phase motor that hums, will not turn, or trips the overload: the order to check
Power distribution
Three phase against single phase: what changes, what it costs you to go without, and when the answer is no
Motors and controls
What a variable frequency drive does, when it pays and when it does not
Tell us what the building has to run
Describe the job and where in New Holland it is. If somebody closer would serve you better on that particular job, we will say so.