Slon Electric

Electrical service across Lebanon County

Lebanon County is the county we cover most densely, and the one where a call in the morning usually means a truck the same day. It is farm country with a meat and food processing industry sitting on top of it, which makes for a particular mix: poultry houses and parlours on one road, a plant with a washdown floor on the next.

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Towns listed across Lebanon County
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Markets: agricultural, commercial, industrial

Towns we work in

Where the work is across Lebanon County

Anywhere in the county is inside half an hour, and most of it is well under that.

  • 01

    Lebanon→

    The commercial centre of the county: shops, offices, restaurants and older buildings whose services ran out of room.

  • 02

    Palmyra→

    Commercial along 422 and farm ground behind it, with Hershey close enough that the work overlaps.

  • 03

    Myerstown

    Poultry, dairy and pole buildings, plus the light industrial units along the 501 and 422 corridor.

  • 04

    Annville→

    Farms, the college and a steady run of small commercial jobs through the middle of the county.

  • 05

    Jonestown→

    Distribution and truck traffic off the I-78 and I-81 interchange, with farms on every side of it.

  • 06

    Richland→

    Dense poultry country on the Lancaster line, where ventilation and standby power are most of the work.

  • 07

    Schaefferstown→

    Dairy and grain in the hills east of Lebanon, with long service runs between buildings.

Food processing equipment with a control enclosure alongside

Farms and food plants on the same road

Lebanon County grows a lot of what it also processes. Poultry and dairy come off farms around Richland and Schaefferstown and go into plants a few miles away in Lebanon and Myerstown, which means we work both ends of that chain and often in the same week.

The two ends ask for different things. On the farm the constraint is biological: ventilation, cooling and the clock those put you on. In the plant it is production: a washdown environment, motor circuits, drives and a shutdown window somebody else set. What that window demands is described in plant wiring during a shutdown, and the washdown side in power for food processing equipment.

Electrical enclosure opened up in the snow during an after hours repair

Why the response is quicker here

We are not going to pretend distance does not matter. A ventilation failure in this county gets a faster answer than the same failure an hour away, simply because of where the trucks are and where the parts are.

That matters most at night. Our listing says open 24 hours because that is how the phone is covered, and what an after hours call actually looks like is written up in a winter failure. If you are in Lebanon County and something has stopped in an occupied building, call at whatever hour it is.

Row of older electrical panels along a barn wall

Buildings that grew without a plan

A lot of the yards around Jonestown and Annville were wired in sequence rather than to a drawing: the house, then the barn off the house, then the shop off the barn. Feeders sized for one building end up carrying four, voltage drops along the chain, and the grounding becomes impossible to trace.

Rebuilding how a yard is fed is usually the job underneath the complaint rather than the complaint itself. Rebuilding a farm service entrance is one of those, and the reasoning behind the arrangement is in voltage drop on long runs.

Panel upgrade work at a building in Myerstown

What we work on

The 7 kinds of building we are inside most often across Lebanon County. If yours is not one of them, it is still worth a call: the question is what the building has to run, not what it is called.

01

Poultry houses and livestock barns

02

Dairy parlours and bulk tank rooms

03

Meat and food processing plants

04

Pole buildings, shops and equipment sheds

05

Distribution and trucking facilities

06

Retail units, offices and restaurants

07

Grain handling and feed systems

Working in Lebanon County

Quicker than anywhere else we cover, though the honest answer still depends on where the truck is and what is already running. You get a real time of arrival on the call rather than a number that sounds good.

Tell us what the building has to run

Describe the job and where in Lebanon County it is. Anatoly runs the crew and usually answers the phone himself, and if somebody closer would serve you better on that particular job, he will say so.