Electrical service in Annville
Annville is the middle of Lebanon County in every sense. Farm ground on both sides, a college campus in the centre, and a run of small commercial along Main Street. None of those are large jobs individually, and together they are a steady part of our week.
Fifteen minutes from Myerstown, straight along the 422.
Small jobs done properly
A lot of what we do in Annville would be called a service call: a circuit for new equipment, a failed fixture, a breaker that keeps tripping, a panel with no space left. These are the jobs that get put off, and they are also the ones where a fifteen minute drive changes the arithmetic.
They are worth doing properly rather than quickly. A circuit added without checking what the panel is already carrying is how a building ends up with a service that trips under load and nobody knowing why, which is the argument in what size service you actually need.
Campus and institutional buildings
Institutional buildings here have long service histories and distribution that grew with the site. Feeders sized for one era carry another, and panel schedules stopped matching two renovations ago.
That makes tracing the first job rather than the wiring, for the reasons in how to read a panel schedule, and it makes the calendar the constraint: there are weeks when a building is empty and weeks when it cannot be touched. We plan around that rather than around our own schedule.
Around Annville
Main Street commercial core
College campus buildings
North and South Annville Township farm ground
Route 422 and 934 junction
Cleona and the approach to Lebanon
Shops, offices and service businesses through the borough
What we are called for
The work Annville asks us for
Service calls and added circuits
The jobs that get put off. A fifteen minute drive changes whether they are worth doing now or later.
Panel and service upgrades
Buildings that ran out of space rather than out of amperes, and buildings where both happened at once.
Dairy and grain work
Parlour, bulk tank and handling circuits through both Annville townships, scheduled around milking.
Institutional and campus work
Planned around the academic calendar, in stages that each finish cleanly rather than leaving a building open.
Lighting retrofits
Corridors, halls, shops and lots, usually with fewer fixtures than were there and controls that were never fitted.
Preventive maintenance
Infrared surveys under load on older gear, which is where most of the surprises in an old building are hiding.
Work of this kind
Service and panels
Panel upgrade in Myerstown, when a board runs out of room and out of parts
Agricultural
Milking parlour and bulk tank wiring, done between milkings
Service and panels
The load study and the drawing, before anybody pulls wire
Maintenance
Infrared survey of a switchboard and the panels fed from it
Working in Annville
- Yes. Annville is fifteen minutes away, so a small job is not a long drive. We will also tell you on the phone if what you describe can safely wait until we are next nearby.
Worth reading
Service and panels
Signs an electrical panel is finished, and the ones that only look serious
Service and panels
What size electrical service do you need: how the calculation works and why 200 amps is usually a guess
Service and panels
How to read a panel schedule, and why yours does not match the building
Tell us what the building has to run
Describe the job and where in Annville it is. If somebody closer would serve you better on that particular job, we will say so.