r/Electricity

Most Hoosiers don’t realize Indiana actually has three different types of electric utilities—and the one you have isn’t something you can easily change.

Here’s the breakdown:

• Investor-Owned Utilities (for-profit, state-regulated)

• Municipal Utilities (owned by your city, community-focused)

• Electric Co-ops (member-owned, not-for-profit)

This system wasn’t randomly chosen—it was built decades ago based on geography, cost, and access. And today, it’s essentially locked in by design.

So can a city switch providers?

Technically yes… but it could cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars and take years of legal battles, and 95% of the time these costs are a responsibility of the customer.

Bottom line:

Your electric bill isn’t just about usage—it’s shaped by history, policy, and infrastructure decisions made long before you.

➡️ In my next video, I’ll break down how federal policy is impacting your electric bill right now—and what that means for your wallet.

This is the hardhat you have to wear if you forget your ppe to my apprenticeship class, thought I’d share lol

and is it dangerous? I’m terrified of things catching on fire and this freaks me out

This is the current wiring situation for the machine. The issue is the building runs on a two pipe system and is currently set to cooling but my duct will only blow out hot air.

The super came in to check whether it is a compressor issue but everything is working correctly. The strainer for the compressor is not clogged either.

I am unable to check if the electrician has incorrectly wired this because the wire colours don’t match the colours shown in the nest install guide

EDIT - this is a 4th Gen model.

Hi guys, I'm moving into a 2 br apartment for two people that's abut 700 square feet. The apartment has minisplits with heat pumps. I don't know anything about hvac in general and was wondering with average usage(say if I set it to 65 on average during the winter), how much would that usually cost for an electric bill. The house is hold, but recently renovated. I'm in New York. I tried to ask con ed and the property manager, but they were unable to provide a general estimate.

I would also like to know if mini splits air conditioners generally use more power than window a/c ? Pictures of units included

Hello everyone!

I am new in the group and I know it will be a dumb question but it is bothering me.

The small icon of an electricity in the circle disappeared recently in my model 3 2020 and I was worried that I did something or that something malfunctioned in the car.

I didn’t update the software or anything like that.

This green line appeared now from nowhere.

Thanks for the help in advance!

I keeping getting a shock from the microwave, dishwasher and drum of the washing machine.

Im having work done in my living room so there is a break in the earth. Idk if I have a ring or a radial circuit.

My theory for now is that when washing clothes the electric motors are inducing volts onto the surrounding metal work and since the earth is broken it isnt being discharged.

Does this sound plausible? Is there any real danger?

Just a small switch change out in my workshop. 30 year old switch starting giving out so I changed the set. I’m experienced with residential and commercial electrical work, but never actually been on a crew.

We had a main contractor the company stuck with while I was metal building for about 11 years and we would occasionally get to stick around and help them, they followed behind after framing, so we knew them very well with occasional companies the customers would contract on their behalf. All were really good guys and extremely knowledgeable about electrical. The house contract crew could bend conduit like no tomorrow. Family business and the dad had 40 years under his belt. Could Read greenhouse thermostatic diagrams like they were comic books.

I took full hands on experience with residential during a few full builds, and remodeling anything up to full homes. I unfortunately don’t have my pics of the few panel boxes my former contractor let me wire up, I really enjoyed that part. But I did it all in between as far as the residential stuff went as well and loved it. 3 ways kinda took me a second to figure out, but It totally made sense after screwing up about 3-4 times. Haha.

I really enjoy electrical work. And I’m wondering by my work shown, what do you think I’d be worth if I showed this as example of my skill and experience. Don’t hold back, roasting is definitely on the table here.

Also, gotta love when they leave no slack and cut the ground to almost nothing after goin twisted sister inside the box. The Romex left is what I managed out of the wall and didn’t wanna sacrifice anymore if future problems may arise.

I have a light up vanity mirror in the apartment I recently moved into. However, it doesn't turn on. I took these photos and noticed a white wire was left out, and is not making the connection.

I emailed the management company and they said they are leaving these hook-ups off for now. However, in all the videos of the other units in my building the vanity lights are functional and turned on. I suspect they just don't want to do it? I'm not sure but I have access to the break box in my apartment. Is this something I can do? Or should I not touch this...

First slide is AVR Specsheet, second slide UPS specsheet (shopping for the 1K VA one)

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My question is really simple. I need a device to protect my computer's (an iMac) hardware. I need this component to sacrifice itself in the event of an electrical failure no matter how big or small of an event it is. Also i want this component to regulate / fix the problems with the electricity coming from the wall and send my computer clean, perfect electricity. I'm not worried about the blackouts causing the computer to shutdown mid-session. I can deal with file loss. All i need is total all around hardware protection for my computer.

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I'm kindly asking you to check these two datasheets and tell me if this specific Voltage Regulator can replace this specific UPS for me. Because, this is the only Pure Sine Wave UPS being sold in my area and it's loud as hell according to the comments. Also I'm not going to keep the UPS plugged to the wall 7/24. If I'm done using the computer after 3 hours, i will unplug the UPS too, this will happen everyday. Some people say unplugging it often could cause harm to the UPS and its batteries so I'm hesitant to get myself an UPS. Hence my efforts of finding a different piece of component doing the same work apart from having batteries inside.

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thanks everyone.

So I’ve gotten myself down a pretty deep rabbit hole and I’m committed to finishing this project. Long story short i bought a dual head Napa air compressor to fill up my tires and was trying to hard mount it in my truck bed. Some YouTubers led me down another rabbit hole leading me to adding a pressure switch and then to rip out the Chinese motherboard and replace that with a 200a relay. Now here’s the predicament I’m in where the rabbit hole takes a turn. My truck is a f150 raptor that has upfitter switches in the cab that I would like to use. Can someone take a look at this wiring diagram that I’ve drawn to see where I’m messing up? When I get everything hooked up and flip the switch there’s no action. When I bypass the relay it works with the switch off or on. Please help before I pull my hair out

Power and ground from battery is 6ga wire connected to compressor using 125a Anderson connectors.

Power coming from upfitter switch is 30a

Power from battery has a 100a fuse

Compressor is 90a

Relay 200a