Notes from the tools
Landsun Electric spent years as an electrical contractor in Calgary. These pages carry the name on as a working journal - the safety practice, the installation detail and the parts of the job that only get discussed properly on site.
Written for people who do the work, not for people selling to them.
SafetyAll Safety →
SafetyWorking at Height as an ElectricianThe one trade where the ladder itself can kill you, and the material it is made of is not a preference.2026-07-30
SafetyProving Dead: The Step People SkipIsolate, lock, prove, prove the prover. Four steps, and the fourth is the one that gets left out.2026-07-16
SafetyArc Flash: The Risk Nobody Costs InRare, survivable and life-changing. The mitigation is mostly procedural, which is why it gets treated as optional.2026-06-28On the ToolsAll On the Tools →
On the ToolsWorking Through a Prairie WinterCable that will not bend, batteries that die by ten, and the safety problem nobody lists: hurrying.2026-04-19
On the ToolsWhat Actually Lives on the BeltAfter a few years everyone converges on roughly the same dozen items. Here is the list and why.2026-04-02
On the ToolsWhat the Apprenticeship Is Actually LikeFour years, a lot of conduit, and considerably more paperwork than anyone tells you at the open evening.2026-03-16InstallationAll Installation →
InstallationPanel Upgrades: What Actually ChangesMost upgrades are sold as capacity. The real gains are usually protection and diagnosis.2026-06-11
InstallationCable Sizing Without the GuessworkFour factors, in order, and one of them is the reason so many installations run warm.2026-05-24
InstallationResidual Current Protection, PlainlyIt does not protect the circuit. It protects the person, and only from one specific way of dying.2026-05-06Why write any of this down
Most of what keeps an electrician safe is not complicated and is not secret. It is a short list of habits - prove dead and prove the prover, isolate properly, wear the right thing under the shirt, take the fibreglass ladder - that everybody knows and a fair number of people stop doing once the job gets familiar.
The incidents that end careers are almost never exotic. They are the routine task on the ordinary afternoon where one of those habits got skipped because it was quicker. That is the whole argument for writing them out plainly and reading them again occasionally.