 Hey guys Chad here from the Electric Academy, sorry for sending a little stuffed up. I've got a bit of a cold We just spent the past few days here moving we moved from our old place Just up the road to a new place bigger yard closer to the kids school closer to my wife's work So I'm pretty excited about that and there's many office. So you'll be seeing a lot more recordings coming out of here Today I'm responding to a request from Antonio. I know I mentioned a while ago about possibly I wrote a blog post about apps for electricians And I mentioned that I might do a quick video on that So what I've done is I'll put a link to the blog post in the comments below But I will also show you my top five But if you go to the blog post actually have 10 or 11 there I believe there's 10 I'm gonna go to my top five and one that I'm really excited about that's not out yet And it's done by my buddy over at the electricians library and I'm really pumped for this one So I'll leave that one to the end. Let me share with you just so you guys Know who I am Chad with the Electric Academy I'm sure most you guys know me just head over and you can check me out at the electric Academy comm And if you click on the learn more button on the electric Academy page You're gonna get a link to a PDF I put together of online resources for electricians So it's definitely worth popping over. I'm gonna be doing a revision of that and adding a couple more things in there So something to look forward to in the future, but now there's lots of good info in there as is So let me get to it because I know you guys are right here, and I need to go have a glass of wine So let's get on or let me get to share my screen with you and I'll show you those the apps that I'm talking about so Here's the first one every circuit now I'm most you know I teach electrical theory this app is awesome I had a student show this to me a couple years ago. You can build absolutely every circuit you can think of in this I don't care if you're adding a capacitors inductors parallel Series circuits grounds you can put ammeters in there And then you can hit the simulate button and watch the circuit work for you hit here's a great example of it right here So I believe they work with electron flow or conventional flow you can actually track along with the the waveforms It's unbelievable most of it's free There is a paid version, but you can fool around with it quite a bit for free So and you can crank that the current up and just see how it all reacts to it So so I'd highly highly recommend this especially if you're in school And you want to see how like the whole theory of everything works again It's every circuit you can just go to every circuit calm and depending whether you're a app or a Apple user or a Android user a and Android user you can find a version of that So that's number one definitely check out every circuit lots of fun It's almost addicting you can have fun if you're into building circuits at his which some of us are Secondly, we've got Electrical Pro which is a great one. It's I think they do have an iOS version It's Android the one I'm showing you here because I gotta give some love out to the Android people But no they do have an iOS version and it's in the link to my on the blog post will be put in there But they've got all the calculations is super powerful and they've come way down a price It used to be like 30 bucks now. It's $2 and I believe if you go to the iOS, it's $9. I'm not sure why it's more expensive But you've got all your calculations here your fill calc So you got your conduit fill calcs your buried at the calcs a lot of it You can go to your code whether you're using the NEC or the CEC But it just makes it more convenient because it's at in your pocket and in your phone now for all you Canadians out there Watching this there's nothing like this for as far as the getting the code rules So I'm sorry about that However for you Americans out there it does any it is NEC compatible and I believe it is up to date So they got your fault calculations motor calculations bolt drops wire impassity and transformer calcs now Canadians Don't worry most of our stuff tracks along with the NEC as well But you might want to cross-reference that because I believe the Canadian code can be a little more stringent So that's electrical pro if you're looking at the iOS version. It's called electrical formula pro So again check out that link that I'm gonna leave for you guys in the show notes show notes I feel like I'm doing a podcast in the comments below for the show here This one is what I'm super excited about this is Cody It is again. It's an NEC app and it's I don't know if some of you guys are probably familiar with the electric Electricians library. He's got a podcast stuff electricians should know if you're not listening to that podcast You better get listening to it. They're quick Just completely awesome Podcasts he talks about things like last week. He talked about the difference gene and normally close and normally open contact when you might run into That so it's completely useful and I would highly recommend it It's just great for the drive to work just to pick up a little knowledge He is building an app right now that looks unbelievable to me. It's a bot app So those of you guys who know about bots if you're on Messenger and sometimes you have messenger message you a message from Facebook and ask you questions and you just keep responding to the questions This is kind of the opposite where you can ask him questions or it's questions and It will go through the NEC and figure it out for you. So this one. He's talking about doing a Wire size calc. So it's asking copper aluminum copper and then so it's telling you the rating It's huge. It must be the database for this thing must be absolutely ginormous However, it would be so handy to have this in the pocket and as a Canadian electrician I wish we had something like this. So I need to talk to John about this So just about it He says who and what is Cody Cody's at first and only that we know a virtual electrical assistant It's being designed specifically through the electrical trade to help you Electricians to become more efficient with having more knowledge and getting access to answers quicker than ever before It's the code in your pocket, but you don't even have to look it up You can just ask them so I would recommend watching this video. It just shows Cody and how Powerful it's going to be again. I just shout out to John for doing this It's him and I've been contact with each other over the past few years because we have very similar sites and our goal is the same We want to help electricians and he's just taking it to a whole new level. So that's Cody So check it out here at electricians library comm forward slash Cody It goes live in June, but I believe you can get here. It is yeah sign up to be notified when Cody is live So definitely check that out plus check out his podcast and check out his blog post. They're awesome Then anybody who knows me personally knows that I love let me get rid of that Evernote My whole life is organized in Evernote. You notice down here. I got my little Evernote I'll show you what I've got here. I've got all my Evernote notebooks. My whole life is an Evernote I teach so I've got all my lesson plans and notes there when I do my side jobs I keep track of all my side jobs in Evernote got my hours Just open that up hours and o's and spoke to ideas absolutely everything that I can possibly track in Evernote I track in Evernote the one big part that I love about Evernote. Let's see if I got something here is The fact that I can scan receipts and send them to my Evernote. So I don't ever have to worry about all Leave I put together last summer I was bored I guess and I put together a course on how I use Evernote as a contractor So I'll put a link to that as well in the comments below So that's kind of where we're going out. So those are my five. Let me just call that off So again, every circuit is number one Superdictive super fun, and it's just it's more like a video game Electrical pro so for all your calculations if you're looking into that Cody which is going to be amazing when it comes out and just sounding more and more more I talked to John about it The more robust and amazing it's going to be and then if for being organized keeping your jobs organized materials Organized and definitely keeping your receipts check out every time and check out that course. I've got going for you So that's that let me just call myself back up here I'm gonna get myself back on the screen so I can see me there. I am so that's where I'm at guys That's the top five there are ten so I talked also about Trello and a couple more electrical apps and I just wanted to pop back on your sorry I was not on last week because we were moving so we had everything in boxes and every night was doing something so It was all fun and now that I'm back in this place. Everything's good I have a bunch of electrical courses for sale right now Some of you guys have bought into that you can check it out. I'm gonna be actually closing the door on those soon I've got a big idea that I'm kind of upgrading it all so I'm gonna be closing it down Really soon. Don't worry if you bought the course. It doesn't mean that you aren't gonna have access to it It just means I'm not gonna be selling it the way I'm selling it right now any more So for those of you who do know it's usually 47 99 for the full AC fundamentals package in that you get a motor controls course you get a transformer single-pace transformers course you get a What else I got in electronics course I'm throwing in three phases a bunch of stuff in there So it's worth checking out But that'll probably be on for the next couple weeks as a student or apprentice I give you 50% off. So you definitely want to get in on that I will leave something in the comments below about that as well So you might want to check in on that and you get 50% off so it makes only 24 bucks So you get lifetime access to all those courses cool All right, as always if you guys have anything you want me to talk about this is out shadow to Antonio He wanted me to talk about this so I Respond to almost every single one of these somebody asked me and I can't remember your name But about a ballast and wiring the ballast up. I'm getting on that I put together a little drawing another one of my students JD Asked me about the white wire being used as a hot So I'm gonna be doing a little video about that because remember Neutral is always white but white not so much always neutral. So that'll probably be my next one Probably be doing that one of the next couple days. I'll keep you guys updated on that So as always I am back. I'm having a blast doing these. Let me know what you want to have done Pop over to the Electric Academy calm and take a look. I just I'm going through a redesign of the site So it's not a hundred percent done, but it's looking a way a lot better than it used to So there we go And if you haven't signed up for the newsletter yet or that free PDF Make sure you do that if you go to the Electric Academy calm There's a place to do that on the page If not, if you go to the fan page of the Electric Academy Just hit that learn more button and you can get on to the mailing list that way and be kept in the loop As to what's going on. All right guys. Oh Hey, Brett. I have been Well, like I said before I kind of took the winter off because I was teaching or am teaching a course on Entrepreneurship for trades and I still am teaching that and still love it But now all the hard work is done So I can focus back on the Electric Academy, which is a big huge passion of mine So I am back and I'm not going anywhere because I'm loving doing these again And it's good to be back onto the Facebook live So hopefully that answers your question and yeah, any other questions out there before I take off It's kind of cool. I love this Facebook live thing because you can we can actually interact with each other somewhat all right, I'm gonna go have a glass one with my wife and Try to beat this cold and maybe go to bed early I've got to be teaching some oscilloscopes tomorrow and we're talking about DC RLC circuits in class. So We're having fun. Oh Thanks. Well, let me know if he there's anything I can help you out with If you want DC RLC stuff, let me know too. I've got a ton of stuff on that that I'm putting together Oh, and just I know I keep rambling on I keep saying I'm about to go. I am doing some three-phase stuff I've got all the slides built right now. I've got one on why connections voltage why connections? Current I've got how to determine the current in a neutral about why a connection whether it's balanced or unbalanced and I've also got one on Delta and I'm gonna be doing an open Delta and open why So I've got those all built I just have to actually just sit down and record the audio to them I've got everything else built up for it So I'm really excited about those because three-phase is something that I keep getting asked tons of questions about so Most of my single-phase stuff is up and going now and so I want to get the three-phase stuff out there to you So that's part of the whole revamp that I'm doing with the site So keep tuned as far as that three-phase stuff goes All right guys, I will be back in a couple days I promise remember Chad at the Electric Academy comm if you have any questions or anything you want me to cover I Yes, you know those of you guys who know the site. I love putting these little things together So have a great night, and I promise I will be signing off now. All right talk to you later See you in a couple days. Bye