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Lucas Electric LLC Electrical contractor who offers integration troubleshooting and repair services as well as standard residential and commercial contracting.
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Please contact through phone instead of email. A chemical engineer with nearly 20 years experience in process controls with IBM, 3M and Imation, and experience working as an electrician in the family business up to and through college I secured a contractor's license and started Lucas Electric, LLC .

20/05/2024

A reminder to the customers, be careful what kind of light fixtures you purchase. I recommend against buying any fixtures with built in LED light pads. The LEDs are great but if you have several matching fixtures, when one goes out, you have to call an electrician to come look at it. Not like the old days when you went down and got a new bulb and you were off and running again.

If the failed light as lost its power supply or LED pads, they are typically NOT replaceable so you have to buy another new fixture and, given that the LED's last several years, that fixture is most likely not produced any more. If there are several matching fixtures in the area, you have to replace them all to get them to match.

So always ask your architect or fixture supplier for fixtures with replaceable lamps (bulbs) so you can fix them your self and not have to worry about buying other fixtures to match.

Good luck.

28/10/2022
Take a look at this cat 5 cable installed in 2007 in a Richmond American home in Corona de Tucson. Note the breaks in th...
19/09/2022

Take a look at this cat 5 cable installed in 2007 in a Richmond American home in Corona de Tucson. Note the breaks in the insulation on the individual inner wires inside the cable jacket. Pretty sure it would not have been this way when it was new.

04/03/2022

Well, we had to get rid of the landline during the Covid fun and frivolity. Keep in mind, the 861 number is our only phone contact but the [email protected] is our email. Thanx, Mike P.

01/03/2022

FYI, we shutdown our 762 prefix landline and are exclusively using the 861 number now.

22/10/2021

Watch the landscapers. Just had a call where the landscapers placed a sprinkler head that directed water right into an exterior 120 volt receptacle with a weatherproof cover. Filled the box and the connecting conduit underground with water and shorted out the system. Totally amazing lack of intelligence.....

22/09/2021

Had a potential customer tell me that there are no-fail romex connectors that can be legally left, unaccessible within walls instead of made inside an accessible electrical box. I advised to avoid using these as I have never come across an electrical connection that could NOT fail......Good Luck....

If you come across this kind of connection in your home wiring, your electrician used a drill gun to set the twist wire ...
18/09/2021

If you come across this kind of connection in your home wiring, your electrician used a drill gun to set the twist wire connectors. I feel for you if you ever have to do any mods to your wiring, but at least they did not cut the wires too short like most of the wiremen these days. If your electrician is doing this, suggest to them to let their finger off the trigger sooner so your wires are not so uselessly intertwined.

Customer recently contacted me about a tripping breaker. A custom BBQ installed a couple of years back would not stay se...
18/09/2021

Customer recently contacted me about a tripping breaker. A custom BBQ installed a couple of years back would not stay set. Found the installer had used a piece of MC cable as an underground feed. Metal clad is approved for indoor above ground installation and it had been chopped with a shovel and shorted out by a landscaper. In replacing the feed line with PVC conduit, we also found that the MC was too short so the installer lengthened it with a piece of romex. In my experience, the people who can do beautiful masonry work on BBQ's should not be allowed to touch the electrical portions of the project. None of these outdoor receptacles was protected with a GFCI.

Looking at the top of a breaker plugged into a buss on a main panel.  Note the damage on the aluminum buss created from ...
18/09/2021

Looking at the top of a breaker plugged into a buss on a main panel. Note the damage on the aluminum buss created from the heat produced from the bad connection. This is a view behind the deadface installed in the panel to protect the owners from touching high voltage portions of the panel, but you can feel the tops of the breakers where the on-off handles are located. If you feel an extremely hot breaker, contact someone to inspect it before it ruins your panel.

17/05/2021

If you are looking at an older home for purchase, keep in mind that two wire, non grounded systems were installed back in the 50's and 60's and are still acceptable. In fact, we can only legally replace two wire receptacles with two wire receptacles and they are still offered for sale at the local home improvement stores.

NEC allows us to install 3 wire receptacles by running an additional ground wire to the box or protecting the circuit with a ground fault circuit interrupter and labeling the receptacle "No Equipment Ground".

A long time realtor client called me last week about upgrading circuits with ungrounded three prong receptacles that the home inspector had reported not meeting code. When she sent me pictures, it appears they are labeled as described above so it appears another false alarm by an uneducated inspector.....

21/10/2020

Worked for a client getting a house ready to sell. Several home inspectors had come through for people who were interested but did not buy.

The 1960's era home originally had two prong receptacles and definitely did not have GFCI protections, however, these were called out as being required for the buyers to consider the purchase.

The problem we have is that the home inspectors do not appear to understand the difference between a repair and a home improvement. Adding GFCI's and three prong receptacles to a house that met code of its time of building are home improvements and the seller is not required to add them. An easy way to look at this is like purchasing a 1960's automobile and the buyer is requiring you to add air bags, seat belts and a padded dash, all items that the vehicle was legally manufactured and sold without.

It seems that the buyers and sellers need to beware of home inspectors that are not aware of these issues when doing evaluating a home.

10/08/2020

When you get ready to build a fence or patio separation wall, make sure you get input on wall lighting and power receptacles before you pour the footings. Calls come in to add lights to brand new block fences and running the lights via exterior conduits makes it really look like an afterthought and cost more to install.

A lot of calls come in about hooking up a spa.  I try to urge people to consider running the feed for the spa undergroun...
07/08/2020

A lot of calls come in about hooking up a spa. I try to urge people to consider running the feed for the spa underground to come up in an open space adjacent to the controller. This alleviates a conduit laying on the ground extending from the side of the unit. Here is how the electrical connections look when run this way.

With the hot weather, it is a good time to go out to your main panel and check the breaker faces for elevated temperatur...
12/06/2020

With the hot weather, it is a good time to go out to your main panel and check the breaker faces for elevated temperatures. Here is a 4 year old panel that suffered a bad connection between the back of a circuit breaker and the buss bar.

22/04/2020

Worked at a house this week that was purchased from "flippers". 'OMG Lord give me strength'. The customer wanted the bathroom fans to be separated from the bathroom lights. I told them I would have to determine if the fan was fed from the light switch box or the light fixture box. Opened both boxes, a three wire romex comes from the switch and goes to the light and no two wire fan feed in either box, ta-da, they cut into the three wire somewhere in the wall between the two boxes. I am so impressed with this "electrician's" work.

12/04/2020

Probably the largest misconception that I come across with homeowners is that the GFCI receptacles in the garage, on exterior walls, in the bathroom or in the kitchen, only control the power at those individual receptacles.

Some times this is correct, but in most cases, they monitor several other standard looking receptacles for ground faults and cut off power to them, should they detect one.

If you ever lose power to the plugs listed above, always check your GFCI receptacles (those with a push to test and rest buttons) to see if one of them has been tripped. They should reset, if the device with the ground fault has been unplugged from the circuit, and you are back in business. If you can't get a reset and everything is unplugged from the affected circuit, then you need to have someone come out and look at it.

Good Luck

17/12/2019

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