IQ Skills – Breaker Counts (2:08)

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Overview

This video walks through a single IQ Skill — electrical panel schedule analysis and circuit breaker extraction. Instead of prompting IQ two or three times to get your breaker counts, you run one prepackaged skill that reads every panel schedule in the project, identifies each panel, lists the breakers inside it, and returns a summary count of every breaker type per panel. Because the output links straight back to the panel schedule sheet, you can spot check the counts against the drawing without leaving IQ.

What you'll learn

Where the IQ Skills button lives and how to tell you are in the skills area
How to launch the electrical panel schedule analysis and circuit breaker extraction skill
How long to expect the skill to run on a project with many panels
How to read the panel extraction step — location, bus rating, main size, total breakers and poles
How to read a panel's breaker list and its breaker count validation table
How to use the yellow link to highlight the source table on the panel schedule sheet
Why an IQ Skill returns more accurate results than a traditional prompt

Before You Begin

The skill reads what is in the project, so the panel schedule sheets need to be uploaded before you run it. Open the project and let IQ finish loading it — IQ has to learn the project before it can return accurate answers.

Expect the skill to take longer on larger projects. A project with a lot of panels gives the skill more panel schedules to extract and more breakers to count.

Part 1 — Open the IQ Skills Area

Open IQ on the project you want to analyze.
In the chat window, look to the upper right corner.
Click the IQ Skills button.
Confirm the blue background appears. The blue background is the system telling you that you are in the skills area rather than the standard chat.
With the skills area open, scroll to the last skill in the list: electrical panel schedule analysis and circuit breaker extraction.
Click the skill to start the process.
Leave the skill running once you kick it off.
Expect anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes, depending on how large the project is.
Scroll up in the response to the first step.
Review the panel-level data the skill extracted.
Scroll down to your first distribution panel.
Review the list of all the different breakers in that panel, including what they're powering.
Underneath that list, find the breaker count validation section. This is your count table.
Locate the yellow link underneath the count table.
Click the yellow link.
The system highlights that table on the panel schedule sheet for you.
Cross reference the highlighted table against the breaker counts the skill returned.
Spot check the counts to make sure the breaker counts are correct.

Note: The blue background is your visual confirmation that the next thing you click will run a prepackaged skill, not a free-form prompt.

Part 2 — Select the Electrical Panel Schedule Analysis Skill

What the skill does once it starts

Stage	What the skill produces
Panel schedule extraction	Pulls out all of the panel schedules in the project
Panel identification	Identifies the panel, the panel name, and the panel type
Breaker identification	Identifies all the different breaker types within each panel
Breaker listing	Shows a panel schedule with a list of all the breakers and the breaker names
Count summary	Returns a summary table of the counts of every breaker type within each electrical panel

Part 3 — Let the Skill Run

Note: A project with a lot of panels will run for a little while. The run time scales with project size — more panel schedules means more extraction and more counting.

Part 4 — Read the Panel Extraction Step

The first step of the skill's output is the panel-level extraction. This is the roll-up of every panel found in the set.

Field extracted	What it tells you
Panel	The panel the skill identified in the set
Location	Where that panel is located
Bus rating	The bus rating of the panel
Main size	The main size on that panel
Total breakers	The total breaker count within the panel
Poles	The total poles within the panel

Best practice: Read the first step before diving into individual panels. It gives you the full panel list with ratings in one view, which is the fastest way to confirm the skill found every panel in the set.

Part 5 — Review a Panel's Breaker List and Count Validation

Output block	What it contains
Breaker list	Every breaker in the panel with what it is powering
Breaker count validation	The count table — counts of each breaker type in that panel
Yellow link	The link underneath the count table that jumps to the source table on the sheet

Part 6 — Cross-Reference the Counts on the Panel Schedule Sheet

The count table is only half the value. The link underneath it takes you back to the drawing so you can verify the numbers against the source.

Best practice: Spot check at least a few panels against the highlighted panel schedule before you use the counts downstream. The yellow link is built for exactly this cross-referencing pass.

Part 7 — Why Use a Skill Instead of a Prompt

	Traditional prompt	IQ Skill
How it is built	You write the prompt yourself each time	A deeper trained, prepackaged prompt built into IQ
Robustness	Varies with how you word it	More robust than a traditional prompt
Accuracy	Typical prompt accuracy	More accurate than a typical prompt
Effort	Often takes several prompts to reach a usable result	One click returns the extraction, the breaker list, and the count table

Note: The narrator states this IQ skill is more robust than a traditional prompt, so keep in mind it will be more accurate than a typical prompt for panel schedule and breaker work.

Quick Reference

What you need	Where to find it
IQ Skills	Upper right corner of the IQ chat window
Confirmation you are in the skills area	Blue background behind the chat
Breaker count skill	Last skill in the list — electrical panel schedule analysis and circuit breaker extraction
Expected run time	30 seconds to a couple of minutes, depending on project size
Panel list with ratings	First step of the skill's response
Panel location, bus rating, main size, total breakers, poles	First step of the skill's response
Breaker list with what each breaker powers	Scroll down to the distribution panel section
Count table	Breaker count validation, underneath each panel's breaker list
Jump to the source table on the drawing	Yellow link underneath the count table
Highlighted source table	Panel schedule sheet
Help with a run	Your success team

Troubleshooting

Issue	Resolution
Cannot find the skills list	Open IQ and look to the upper right corner of the chat window for the IQ Skills button.
Not sure whether the skill is active	Look for the blue background. It indicates you are in the skills area rather than standard chat.
The skill has been running a long time	Expected on a project with a lot of panels. Allow anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes, depending on project size.
A panel is missing from the results	Confirm the panel schedule sheet is uploaded into the project. IQ only searches what is in the project.
Not sure a breaker count is right	Click the yellow link underneath the count table to highlight that table on the panel schedule sheet, then spot check the counts against the drawing.
A plain prompt returned weaker panel results	Use this IQ skill instead. It is more robust and more accurate than a typical prompt for panel schedule and breaker extraction.
Something in the output does not look right	Reach out to your success team with your question.