Phase Engineering is headquartered in Visalia, and Tulare County is our home service area. Our arc flash studies are performed and sealed by California licensed Professional Engineers, and for local facilities the site visit is a short drive rather than a travel line item.
Facilities we work with in Tulare County
The electrical systems around here have a particular character. Seasonal processing loads, large motor populations, older service equipment carrying newer additions, and plants that cannot afford unplanned downtime during a harvest window.
- Food and agricultural processing — nut hullers and processors, fruit packing houses, citrus packing, dehydrators and dryers
- Dairy operations and creameries with substantial refrigeration and motor load
- Cold storage and distribution facilities
- Water and wastewater districts and pumping stations
- Manufacturing and industrial plants across Visalia, Tulare, Dinuba, Porterville, Exeter and Lindsay
Scheduling around your season
Processing facilities have windows where an outage is unthinkable and windows where equipment is already down. Data collection needs panel covers open, so we schedule around your calendar — usually during a planned shutdown or a maintenance window rather than mid-run.
The solar question
A large number of Valley processors have added rooftop or ground-mount solar in the last few years, and many have added battery storage since. On-site generation contributes fault current, which can change incident energy at your equipment. If your study predates your PV system, the labels on your gear may no longer describe the actual hazard.
What every study includes
- Short circuit study with equipment rating evaluation
- Protective device coordination with time current curves for every panel
- Incident energy analysis and arc flash boundaries
- Labels meeting NFPA 70E and NEC 110.16, printed and installed
- Report sealed by a California licensed Professional Engineer
Three things to check before you hire anyone
Ask whether a licensed P.E. Electrical Engineer seals the final report. Ask whether every panel appears in the coordination study time current curve plots, or only the main gear. And ask who performs the field data collection — missing conductor lengths and unrecorded breaker settings go straight into the incident energy result.
We send a P.E. Electrical Engineer to collect the data, with an electrician as support to open panel covers. The engineer who has to defend the model gathers its inputs.
Talk to the engineer who does the work
No sales team. You speak directly with a California licensed Professional Engineer about your equipment, your schedule, and what the study will actually cost.