In this post, Ian Hoppe shares how his experience as an electrical contractor led him to found Condoit.

If you haven’t been asked about installing electric vehicle chargers, you will be. But installation isn’t simple. Most people underestimate the load EV chargers place on aging electrical systems. Here’s how you can prepare for this new wave of business.

Are you a facility owner or an electrical contractor looking to get an edge in the rapidly changing world in which we live? We will let you in on a little secret: We're in the opening act of a once-in-a-generation infrastructure upgrade on par with Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System—the buildout of electric vehicle (EV) charger buildout infrastructure.

Before Condoit's launched Digital Single-Lines, these diagrams were a pain to create and update, so many facility managers asked, "Is it really that important?" Yes, it is. Here are the top 5 reasons your facility needs an up-to-date single-line diagram of its electrical system.

Single line diagrams are a necessary evil. There’s nothing worse than getting an emergency call from a customer and hurrying out to the facility, only to find out that the only single line you’ve got is a set of as-builts from 1982. Now you have to spend an hour (or more) following conduit in a drop-ceiling and flipping breakers just to narrow down where the problem is.

After spending hours in the field looking over the shoulder of our customers and talking about the features they need the most we’ve finally released this absolute behemoth group of updates to the Con.doit tablet application. The improvements make the construction, utilization, and distribution of electrical system records more seamless than ever. 

You've got a lot to do. Let us handle the single line diagrams. In a series of short gifs below I'll show you how to create and export a high resolution, 30"x42" PDF single line diagram that you can be proud of directly to email in less than two minutes. 102 seconds, actually. ‍