• octobob@lemmy.ml
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        4 days ago

        No? Industrial is an entirely different aspect of electrical beyond just building power like commercial is. I’m specifically in the automation of steel mills and other heavy industry. We control motors larger than houses or various systems and functions of the mill via control panels, PLCs, massive person-sized variable frequency drives, contactors, relays, software programming and fine tuning, all powered by busbar we bend by hand or parallel runs of large wire per phase that are much larger than anything commercial will touch, minus except like data centers I guess. Plus thousands and thousands of small control wiring of various sensors, control logic to PLCs, device power, etc etc.

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          Oh that cool. Yes much different. Reminds me of how my uncle use to be a mechanic but only worked on those gaint dump trucks and equipment used at coal mines.