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- Maintenance work varies greatly, depending on where the electrician is employed.
- Electricians who specialize in residential work perform a wide variety of electrical work for homeowners. They may rewire a home and replace an old fuse box with a new circuit breaker box to accommodate additional appliances, or they may install new lighting and other electric household items, such as ceiling fans.
- Those who work in large factories may repair motors, transformers, generators, and electronic controllers on machine tools and industrial robots.
- Those in office buildings and small plants may repair all types of electrical equipment.
- Maintenance electricians working in factories, hospitals, and other settings repair electric and electronic equipment when breakdowns occur and install new electrical equipment.
- When breakdowns occur, they must make the necessary repairs as quickly as possible in order to minimize inconvenience. They may replace items such as circuit breakers, fuses, switches, electrical and electronic components, or wire.
- Electricians also periodically inspect all equipment to ensure it is operating properly, and locate and correct problems before breakdowns occur.
- Electricians also advise management whether continued operation of equipment could be hazardous.
