Electrical service in Jonestown
Jonestown is where I-78 meets I-81, and that interchange put distribution buildings and truck facilities on ground that was farmland. Both are still here, often across the road from each other, and we work both.
Fifteen to twenty minutes from Myerstown, up the 22 or across on the 72.
Buildings measured in acres
Distribution buildings at an interchange are big enough that ordinary assumptions stop working. A lighting layout that is right for a forty thousand square foot warehouse is not simply repeated four times for one four times the size, because racking, aisle direction and mounting height change what lands where.
The same goes for what they hold. A building leased by one tenant for pallets and by the next for automated handling is electrically a different building, with conveyor power, equipment charging and a load nobody recalculated. That conversation starts with a load study.
Truck facilities and equipment charging
Terminals and maintenance shops around the interchange run fleets, and fleets increasingly mean charging. Four chargers at forty eight amps is two hundred and forty amps of continuous demand, which is more spare capacity than many buildings have once lighting and handling equipment are counted.
Load management is usually the answer rather than a service upgrade, because vehicles that sit overnight do not care how fast they were filled. The arithmetic is on the EV charging page.
Around Jonestown
The I-78 and I-81 interchange
Distribution and fulfilment buildings
Truck terminals and maintenance shops
Route 22 and 72 corridors
Union and Swatara Township farm ground
Fort Indiantown Gap approach
What we are called for
The work Jonestown asks us for
High bay laid out to the racking
Lighting set out from the rack plan rather than a grid, because a grid over racking lights the tops of shelves.
Charging banks for lift trucks
A charging room draws for hours rather than minutes, so it is designed as a continuous load and not as receptacles.
Conveyor and handling equipment
Machine connections, motor circuits and drives, with the drive cable and bonding done the way a drive needs.
Distribution across a long floor
Sub panels and switchgear placed into the building, so the far end is not fed from a board at the opposite wall.
Farm work around the interchange
Dairy, grain and pole buildings through Union and Swatara townships, right next to the distribution ground.
Planned maintenance
Infrared surveys under load on switchgear and motor control centres, on a booked yearly interval.
Working in Jonestown
- That comes from measured demand rather than the size of the service. Two buildings with identical services often have very different answers, and a recording meter on the main for a month settles it.
Worth reading
Lighting
High bay LED lighting: why brighter fixtures usually do not fix a dark building
Service and panels
What size electrical service do you need: how the calculation works and why 200 amps is usually a guess
Power distribution
Three phase against single phase: what changes, what it costs you to go without, and when the answer is no
Tell us what the building has to run
Describe the job and where in Jonestown it is. If somebody closer would serve you better on that particular job, we will say so.