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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by dboreham on Saturday March 14, 2026 @10:40AM (#47377176)
I'm not sure I'd leave something like this to an electrician. Or if so at least make that electrician be experienced in this field. I think you'd want an electrical engineer to be involved with the plan to some degree.
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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by Kirby64 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @02:55PM (#47379883)
Electrical engineers don’t know code requirements and wiring guidelines for household electrical wiring. They’re absolutely not the correct default. Electricians with specialization in generator setups, sure, but an electrician engineer on average is likely going to be more uninformed on code requirements than an electrician.
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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by mschuster91 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @03:29PM (#47380243)
Electrical engineers know the theory but lack the practical knowledge which grid form is used at your specific address (yes, here in Germany we have a few towns where one half side of a street runs TT and the other one is already migrated to TN-C or TN-C-S).

An electrician specializing in lightning protection, uninterruptible power installation or in radio installations can sort out all of that far better than an engineer can.

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