Recent content by zachtos

The license renewal is not the expense issue, it's the cost and time required for the continuing education credits. I have less than a year to complete 30 credits worth of online and interactive stuff to prove I'm still learning, which is a bunch of crap. I learn constantly, so much that I...

What happens if I do not have the time or money to keep my PE license updated? I took a new job in a new state (Wisconsin) that has stricter continuing education credit requirements. I am very busy developing new electronic products at my new company, unlike my last job at an electrical...

It was similar for me, but I did not take power in college (electronics), so I reviewed theory first since I had no idea how to do ANY problems from the start.

Not very close at all. It took about a month to go over all the book theory. I spent a week or so accumulating extra material online as I reviewed. I spent 3 months doing practice problems and misc. review as I found gaps. I think 3 months total is all you really need (for me). The FE was...

FYI, I passed. I found that the PPI material was not enough to pas, as mentioned I printed some supplemental materials. The complex imaginary exams x 2-4 were enough in my opinon.

I thought it was a bit easy, but I overstudied. I took the FE a year ago and that helped a lot. I feel like I got 80-90% and finished 1.5 hours early both AM/PM and reviewed the rest of the time. I was dissapointed in the lack of fault current calculations (only 1 for me). 25% NEC questions...

I feel like I got 80-90% on the exam (only tagged 9 problems as questionable of 80). I would say the extra practice exams were critical to me passing. I was not impressed with the spin-up exams and would suggest buying all four of the complex imaginary exams. The PPI sample exams were...

I am already bored of studying. It's been slow at work so I've been getting 30hr/week in or so w/o needing weekends. Pretty sweet. I bought the spin up exams and worked through one, I think it's a bit easy, and there are several typos/errors in the book so far. I think the complex...

I have worked through all the PPI materials and the power reference manual. I grabed ANSI charts, more articles on rectifiers/thyristors, VFDs, an old NESC codebook, my NEC2011 handbook, and I have the Power Systems book by Glover (but barely touched it). I worked the NCEES sample exam first...

DANG, I just ordered the two complex imaginaries. How are they stacking up in comparison to the spin-up versions?

Well, I finished working through the Power Reference MAnual by Camara. I also did all the sample questions that came with the book. I did skip some sections completely though including: electronics, math/economics (reviewed that for the FE last year) and the first half of illumination (theory...

I think I will review in the order above, and at the end of each section, will work through the sample exam questions related. I can review that section more if necessary. I'm already doing that w/ the circuit theory section. Hopefully I have plenty of time w/ this schedule to master all...

I plan to work through the Power reference manual (PPI) and the practice problems each week as I progress. There are examples in the book as well, and I am working those as I review too. I have not decided if I will spoil the sample exam and work the equivalent section problems each week or...

Hi, I passed the FE April 2011 and plan to take the PE - Electrical - Power in April 2012. I've been out of school about 9 years and work as a project manager at a utility. I was a electronics engineer, not power. A few of my coworkers passed the PE studying only a month, but I will use the...