Instrument Technician vs Electrician - NWS (language)

[yamafitter]

A while back we compared a completely useless, knuckle-dragging pipefitter to the vastly superior Electrician. At the time DCarver asked if there was a similar comparison of Instrument Technician to an Electrician. Both Carver & I are both from the Instrument Technician trade and are well aware of our vast intellectual superiority over the wire pullers....

https://youtu.be/P1PfRvlrZ44

 

[steve_g]

love it: "glorified cable tray basher"

now if only i could get an instrument tech to re-scale this transmitter then i can get to work!

 

[beemerdons]

I would like to talk more on this very interesting subject matter, but I need to meet with my JP Morgan Investment Banker this morning at 8am to discuss my investment portfolios!!! jes' sayin' and nuff said!

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"Does a pipefitter make more than an electrician?



In: Salary and Pay Rates, Pipefitter





Answer:
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics the estimated mean annual wage for Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters as of May 2008 is, $49,200 This would amount to $23.65 per hour. Plumbers, pipelayers, pipefitters, and steamfitters are among the highest paid workers in construction occupations. Median hourly wages of wage and salary plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters were $21.94 in May 2008. The middle 50 percent earned between $16.63 and $29.66. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $13.22, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $37.93."

 

[ionbeam]

"Does a pipe fitter make more than a electrician?

How much does an instrumentation technician earn?

In: Salary and Pay Rates


Answer:
If you're an experienced Journeyman with a Tech Diploma as well, your salary will be anywhere from 80-100k per year. Add overtime, bonuses, etc. your gross income will be well into six figures. All depends on your work location, the company, and how much OT you want. Self employed Journeyman Instrument Techs will charge $65-85 per hour. This is in Alberta, Canada, 2010.

 

[beemerdons]

"Does a pipe fitter make more than a electrician?

How much does an instrumentation technician earn?

In: Salary and Pay Rates


Answer:
If you're an experienced Journeyman with a Tech Diploma as well, your salary will be anywhere from 80-100k per year. Add overtime, bonuses, etc. your gross income will be well into six figures. All depends on your work location, the company, and how much OT you want. Self employed Journeyman Instrument Techs will charge $65-85 per hour. This is in Alberta, Canada, 2010.

Excellent presentation Alan, but all Instrumentation Technicians look exactly like yamafitter!

No thanks, I prefer to remain a devilishly handsome UA Pipefitter eh!

 

[Redfish Hunter]

Well. I knew there was a reason I thought Yamafitter and DCarver were such great guys. Aside from us all being so good looking, charismatic, and entertaining, we have something else in common. I should have known before just from how smart they sound that they had to be Instrument Techs.

But, I cannot just hate on the Pipe Fighters. I have to give them credit. In fact, I will relay the exact message I once saw a group of Pipe Fighters work for 2 hours to scratch out with their little chalk sticks on the side of a vessel.

Pipfiturz iz the bestust and smartist peeple in thu hole dayum plant! Them lectricul peeple aint wurth nuthin!

 

[beemerdons]

Well. I knew there was a reason I thought Yamafitter and DCarver were such great guys. Aside from us all being so good looking, charismatic, and entertaining, we have something else in common. I should have known before just from how smart they sound that they had to be Instrument Techs.

But, I cannot just hate on the Pipe Fighters. I have to give them credit. In fact, I will relay the exact message I once saw a group of Pipe Fighters work for 2 hours to scratch out with their little chalk sticks on the side of a vessel.

Pipfiturz iz the bestust and smartist peeple in thu hole dayum plant! Them lectricul peeple aint wurth nuthin!

RF, I'm actually wearing this T-shirt today on our Old Farts Breakfast Ride! jes' sayin' and nuff said!

 

[CAJW]

Did Richard do the voice over for this? The Instrument Tech sounds just like him!

 

[Redfish Hunter]

Well. I knew there was a reason I thought Yamafitter and DCarver were such great guys. Aside from us all being so good looking, charismatic, and entertaining, we have something else in common. I should have known before just from how smart they sound that they had to be Instrument Techs.

But, I cannot just hate on the Pipe Fighters. I have to give them credit. In fact, I will relay the exact message I once saw a group of Pipe Fighters work for 2 hours to scratch out with their little chalk sticks on the side of a vessel.

Pipfiturz iz the bestust and smartist peeple in thu hole dayum plant! Them lectricul peeple aint wurth nuthin!

RF, I'm actually wearing this T-shirt today on our Old Farts Breakfast Ride! jes' sayin' and nuff said!

Yes, my friend, that is good stuff. The problem is, where exactly are you laying this pipe? You know it does no good if it is not put in the correct spot (or gender) and is sloppily done.

 

[ionbeam]

Excellent presentation...but all Instrumentation Technicians look exactly like yamafitter!...

You mean that Fred W and yamafitter are twins?

 

[beemerdons]

Excellent presentation...but all Instrumentation Technicians look exactly like yamafitter!...

You mean that Fred W and yamafitter are twins?

Perfect ionbeam, absolutely perfect! With that, it's time to roll FJR Naomie Harris out my garage door for a morning ride for burritos. Back up to 100F today, PHX!

 

[yamafitter]

Excellent presentation Alan, but all Instrumentation Technicians look exactly like yamafitter!

No thanks, I prefer to remain a devilishly handsome UA Pipefitter eh!

and here is one of those "devilishly handsome" Pipefitters....

 

[Redfish Hunter]

Sort of back on topic:

The shop in my plant is divided, there are electricians and there are instrument techs. There is a definite line between them even though we are in the same room and work for the same boss. I am unique in this plant because I am both I and E. We used to have an electrician in the shop who was truly the best electrician I ever dealt with. He hated the fact that the Instrument Techs got a higher pay rate and carried more prestige. He called the Instrument Techs "Super Skirts". For my part I always refer to our Electrical Department as "Static Electricity" in view of the fact that they are so lazy.

I intend to make good use of the terms I learned in the video. Retarded Shock Absorber and Glorified Cable Tray Basher will get some use in our shop very soon. Thanks.

 

[steve_g]

I am a member of the hated engineers. I work for a DCS supplier and I work in the retrofit projects group.

Basically, I replace power plant boiler controls systems. Currently I am in charge of our Burner Managment group and have been spending a lot of time preparing for the upcoming fall outages.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

I am a member of the hated engineers. I work for a DCS supplier and I work in the retrofit projects group. Basically, I replace power plant boiler controls systems. Currently I am in charge of our Burner Managment group and have been spending a lot of time preparing for the upcoming fall outages.

A good engineer working with a good I & E tech can save the world.

 

[Powerman]

Another I&E / Boiler guy.

 

[steve_g]

Beemerdons - love the shirt!

 

[Chiefblueman]

OK Yamafitter, I now need a good Instrument Tech to help clean the root beer off my keyboard!

As the Master Electrician in our shop I am responsible for training apprentii and Electronics Techs in the fine art of harnessing the flow of electrons in a safe and acceptable fashion. This video just gave me a new training tool. I will be using " It's 3 wires for ****'s sake. Hook 'em up and you've got a 50-50 chance the motor will turn the right way" real soon. Arc flash protection anyone?

Beemerdons, while I have nothing but respect for my fellow tradesmen, the pipefitters, none of ya can pull off a good prima donna act as well as a skilled electrician and get away with it. I prefer to think of myself as a labor conservationist rather than lazy.

 

[yamafitter]

A good engineer ...

Now that right there is an oxymoron. One time we got this drawing from the engineer on a modification we were doing for the precipitator control system at the coal generating plant. The standard was to mark the control wires being removed in green and the wiring that would stay in red. The engineer had put some scribblings down on the drawing in pencil. We went back to the engineer and I asked him if those lines in pencil where the grey areas and if we should just make it up as we go along. For some reason the engineer did not see the humour in that. My fellow instrument tech was pissing himself laughing.

OK Yamafitter, I now need a good Instrument Tech to help clean the root beer off my keyboard!
As the Master Electrician in our shop I am responsible for training apprentii and Electronics Techs in the fine art of harnessing the flow of electrons in a safe and acceptable fashion. This video just gave me a new training tool. I will be using " It's 3 wires for ****'s sake. Hook 'em up and you've got a 50-50 chance the motor will turn the right way" real soon. Arc flash protection anyone?

I can help you with your Electronics Techs. Just tell them that when you let the smoke out of a electronics IC chip it has been my experience that the chip will not work worth a **** afterwards. Electronics is even simpler that being an electrician. There's either 5 volts or there's not. On or off. It doesn't get any simpler than that. You can't even get a buzz off 5 volts. Now grabbing the wrong wire at 250 VDC. That hurts.

Test before touch or learn the hard way.

Hiss & Piss baby. That's where it's at. I've even rebuilt ledoux bell flow transmitters but now I'm really dating myself.