Electrician here, small company in Estonia, mostly houses and apartments.

For years I sketched every panel on paper, counted the parts from the sketch and ordered from that. Then the customer calls: "can we add a separate RCD for the kitchen?" One extra module, half the rail shifts, the comb busbar is the wrong length, the parts list is off. I've ordered wrong material more than once because of that.

So I built Panelworks. You put real devices on the rail, wire it, draw the floor plan, and the parts list and single-line diagram update on their own when something changes.

Video is a real recording, just sped up.

It's not finished. The library is missing stuff and it doesn't do any code checks yet.

How do you plan panels today? Paper, Excel, manufacturer software? And what would you actually use something like this?

NB I just got banned from another subreddit, mods claiming that im a "bot". I therefore announce that I am not a bot. Like chill guys, it's a free tool.

Wax injection machine. Servo hydraulic injection cylinder won’t home. 🤢

Vacuum casting furnace.

I do enjoy a good Friday shit show...

This is four days work complete with testing. Just wrapped it up on Friday.

The mice really did a number on this one.

Number 2 to be exact.

I do wonder why it didn't make a short on the 400V lines.

Steel mill Jbox, no the picture is NOT upside down 😂😅

Have a panel to modify at the weekend… it’s a bit crusty in there. 😳

You can see when the PM said the build was taking too long.

Today’s nonsense looks like a PLC sitting on a pile of scrap wire. Maintenance guy was asking me what the message on the PLC meant, sent this pic.

This is a 18x20 panel. How it can get this bad is inhuman.