The Best of 2024: The Most Popular Everyday Electrician Videos

Jan. 9, 2025

See the three most-watched videos from Trevor Ottmann throughout the first year of The Everyday Electrician series!

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Happy New Year! This January marks one full year of The Everyday Electrician™ with Trevor Ottmann, president and owner of 3/0 Electric in Bennet, Neb. He shared vidoes on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube detailing his day-to-day life as an electrical contractor. We were so amazed with how well received Trevor's videos were across all of our social media platforms, so we wanted to highlight the most-viewed videos Trevor shared in 2024.

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The No. 1 most popular Everyday Electrician TikTok of 2024 was this one, showing mobile receiving conveyer feature at the top of a wooden dry fertilizer facility. Trevor explains how this conveyor allos the product destination to be remote controlled, something he worked on.

Watch the embedded Instagram Reel, which got 1.7K views. You can also watch it on TikTok, where it got a whopping 28.8K views, or as a YouTube Short, where it got 8.4K views.

The second most popular Everyday Electrician video of 2024 shows how Trevor uses compressed air to push a foam pison through a 50-foot run of 4-in. PVC — which honestly looks like a pretty fun task.

You can watch the embedded Instagram Reel, where it got 1.6K views. On TikTok (where it got 13.8K views) shared other names they call the foam piston, including "rat," or how this task is also referred to as "pigging the line." It was also popular on YouTube, where it received 5.7K views.

Trevor's third most popular post of 2024 was his explanation of how to install time clocks. In this video, he explains how finicky time clocks are. The cogs are hard to fine tune, they fall off/slip, and more. Personally, Trevor likes switching everything to a photo eye. The downside of this, however, is the amperage rating. Most max at 7A or 8A, so you may need to add a contractor to carry a larger load.

It got more than 15K views on YouTube and 11K views on TikTok.

About the Author

Trevor Ottmann

Trevor Ottmann is an electrical contractor based in southeast Nebraska. After graduating from Rock Port High School, Rock Port, Mo., in 2006, he attended Southeast Community College in Milford, Neb., to learn the electrical trade. After graduating from Milford in 2008, he joined Progressive Electric in Lincoln, Neb., where he worked from 2009 to 2018. While full time at Progressive, he started doing contract work in 2016, launching 3/0 Electric as a side business. From 2018 to 2022, he joined Capitol City Electric in Lincoln, Neb., where he joined the Local 265 Union. In November 2022, he took the plunge as a small business owner and started working full time for 3/0 Electric with his wife, Jamie, At 3/0 Electric, he mostly focuses on commercial and industrial jobs as well as agricultural electrical work. He has held an electrical contractor's license in Nebraska since 2012. He is also a firefighter for the Bennet Rural Fire District since 2021 and is a nationally registered emergency medical technician (NREMT) since June 2023. Trevor lives with his wife and daughter in Bennet, Neb.