Free EPS Software for the Community

We were recently contacted by James Boone, President of Powersoft Engineering LLC about his Electrical Panelboard Scheduler (EPS) Software. He offers this software free to the electrical community. What we also found is another inspirational story about how hard work, determination, and vision were once again the key ingredients for a success story. We asked him to share his story and introduce his product. We hope that you find inspiration to follow through on your great visions.

James Boone's Story:

I started my career in electrical contracting industry 35 years ago wiring small industrial, residential commercial and some hospital grade projects, as an electrician. I never had any formal training in electrical work and learned everything I know today through on the job training. It was a slow hard process since school was out of the question at the time. I had to earn a living for my family and never minded, content with the honesty of doing a good job and learning the meaning of hard work.

I have always had an interest in computers and wanted to learn more about them when they were becoming affordable for everyone to own. I struggled with my limited resources to be able to afford computer parts and even desiring to build as opposed to buying a new system because of initial cost. This meant I could buy parts and upgrade as the funds became available.

After many years of working in the electrical field, I found myself getting laid off over the years from my job as electrician. I decided to go to tech school tasking for a computer science degree at night. While going back to school and out of work I called all over town asking if I could get a drafting job because of my interests in computers. This took many months of trying to find anyone interested enough to listen or take me seriously after being in the construction field for so long. I was out of work for some time and taking school seriously would prove to be helpful. I was finally able to talk to a local electrical engineer who was working out of his house and was able to work with him on some small markup drafting projects. He hired me full time after six months. AutoCAD was in its infancy with dos version 10. I studied in school while working for him for one year when we were asked to work with a local AE firm. My work as an electrical drafter began and I was able to bring field experience to the drafting table. I consider myself very lucky to have made the move and had the persistence when I did. What felt like a disaster at the time eventually made me stronger and now as I look back, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I am thankful for this man and certainly happy he gave me the opportunities as he did. Sadly to say, I quit school and never finished tech with a degree but I did leave knowing enough to have the drive and determination while churning ideas of my own.

That big move happened 19 years ago. Along the way I have looked at better ways to improve my professional advancement and to improve my productivity with insights which not many people in my position can fill. I consider myself an expert in cad systems and even did some programming with cad platforms making it more productive for our needs. Today, I am an expert in most any software I come into contact with and have learned a lot from seeing various programs, some which I like and learning from the things I didn’t. I realize that software is a tool for us to be more productive and wanted to write a program to help my understanding in electrical design. About 15 years ago I began putting some concepts together with trial and error, experimentation and programming abilities. This programming language was self-taught too. After many years of development, testing and help from my comrades, Electrical Panelboard Scheduler (EPS) is now ready for the electrical community because I feel strongly about the value this free software can deliver. I encourage you to look at and try EPS today and hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.

Thank-you and God bless,

James Boone, President
Powersoft Engineering LLC

Product Description:

Here is a short description of James' product and for more information please visit his website: http://www.powersofteng.com and discussion board: http://www.powersofteng.com/forum

Electrical Panel Scheduler 2010 Lite: This software will aid electrical engineers, designers, consultants or contractors in the electrical systems design of commercial buildings no matter how complex. EPS has all the tools you need in building electrical panelboards from 60A/120V to a 168 circuit 6000A gear.

EPS has full range of design features such as voltage drop, wire, conduit, breaker sizing and load summaries with demand/connected loads. Designers can use this software to free engineers time by designing a buildings electrical system to a more complete state. Best of all this fully functional software is free, there are no nag screens and will never expire.

Electrical Panel Scheduler 2010 Pro: This software has the same capabilities as the Lite version except it gives you panelboard linking, short circuit rating and riser diagrams which display the length of feeder and KAIC ratings. Contributions from the Lite version will help in the development which is not finished at this time. Click the link to see development progress and for updates.

Donations are welcome to aid in the completion of this professional version. By donating, you will be given a special registration code that will allow you to save a panel schedule with a new name. This new feature will save hours of time and reduce errors since you will be able to use your own default panelboards any way you like.

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