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Hi guys, I’m just trying to price a rewire and I think my price is fair considering the specs of the job plus he wants 2 consumer units, 1 cu for...
- ppelec100
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Seasons In THE Sun - Terry Jacks
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If there was access above the light ie a junction box then that would be the best option and just take down your sw live ,neutral and earth .if...
- danq39
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Hi selling these in Barnsley South Yorkshire want £100 quid or very nearest offer will post for £7
Preferably would lime them sold as a lot but...
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Yes an upfront time delayed rcd is an option.
What is the Ze ?
How many Rcd circuits are there being supplied by this sub main. ?
- toms22
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Hi,
Has anyone come across DIY balcony solar panels?
These are solar panel kits you can buy that plug into a regular electrical wall outlet...
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, looks like you are right, the other components were affecting the readings.
Also no info on the underside.
Back to...
- vinter93
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link every time and ketchup on a real glasgow roll .we get so called glasgow rolls up here and there garbage ,it must be a closely guarded secret...
i guess your tied for length ,rather than use a hidden jb could you add another socket some where else even if you dont plan to use it and...
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This may seem strange coming from a Welsh man but I would love to learn the bagpipes. I got as far as buying a set of children's pipes to practice...
No table I just know the conductivity of the armour is around 4.0mm² copper equivalent so 6.0mm² will be fine.
- Luka
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Differences between the two trades?
Plumbers have a brush…..
And van organisation? You’ve not seen my van.
- LmarshallSparks
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Nope. It could be anywhere in the circuit… at the board, at any of the sockets or at a hidden joint box somewhere.
An electrician with test...
- Colin47
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Im trying to figure out how to drive (manually-bitbang) a HT1621B LCD driver IC. It is capable of driving multiplexed LCDs. They are very cheap...
- _q12x_
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Was there rcd protection on that particular circuit previously
Build up of Earth leakage from multiple machines and the planner just tipped it over the edge?
- Billandben
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That traffolyte label glued to the service head is the same as those screwed to the wooden support poles.
- aliensbrains
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We should all be on 1/7th more than we are….... just because the regs book is now 8 chapters long instead of 7
Go ask a plumber what an “island...
Impossible you have clicked on the link in the email mate else you wouldn't be able to post anything.
I will remove your account that you...
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I also charge my hourly rate for this, including time typing up the report. For a house as in your opening post, it's probably 3 or 4 hours on...
- HappyHippyDad
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Pedantic Pirate Pounces Persistently!
As my English teacher often said
"Always avoid alliteration"
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Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a bit of advice as to what courses to take to become fully qualified (having been out of the trade for around 14...
- anthonyleeds
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Single EIC to cover the installation and board with notification to Building Control.
- Jondude0
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nvq Incorrect phase rotation
i do understand this just need to get some pictures of me
is there any electricians based Wickford or Basildon...
- daza18
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Sadly not very near Swindon! I'm in Oswestry. Thanks a lot for the thought though!
Thanks for the help. I’ll measure it up and get something like this...
Sorry, didn't mean to press click as I'm not overly confident however the usual things come up in the exam , try to remember the drawings the...
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Hello all easy cert users, ive been using easy cert since 2001 with no yearly subscription. and also found other people looking for older versions...
- michaelw6
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Thank you that is appreciated.
The industry needs the mix of men and women from all levels of time served to be able to come together and share...
I've had that happen once. I got it out with a left hand threaded drill bit
- Stephen Rafferty
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Yes, they are.
Tim
Have found myself in a similar situation using click minigrid stuff recently. The minigrid specific dimmers have a coarser thread than the other...
- strider6
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Update.
Went back today as it was popping the other RCD post move, again intermittently with no real pattern. Typically overnight but not every...
- Yellowhammer
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It was >999 on all, tested cables connected and individually, he ce the reason i came on here to ask for ideas
If you have 230v between 3 and 4 then the unit is faulty if it won’t light up.
- TheeMarko
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That's probably a better option thanks
I intented split core anyway, the idea is to leave him something he can move around himself subject to...
- Teddy Lop
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Our house , here is rural washington state, USA has an external Square-D double throw not fusible" external manual transfer switch (DTU-224NRB) ...
- klumsy
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Terminal box on a UK cooker from 50 years ago would easily accomodate a 10mm2 cable, even though 6mm 2 was adequate.
Nowadays, most cookers, ovens...
- Albirto123
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If you are testing you can link the suspected 'neutral' to the chassis/earth with something like a 100 watt mains filament lightbulb. If the bulb...
auto changeover is great but it does require a generator that has a 2 wire start function and obviously be electric start.
a customer / friend of...
- preferma
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I created a voltage drop spreadsheet for this sort of thing. I used to use it to calculate the drop when designing regular 230V lighting circuits...
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Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but aren't you trying to control 1 - 10V protocol dimming lights with a conventional waveform chopping dimmer...
- stevef22
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most likely wired in series so the voltage is divided across them
The picture on the left shows a blank missing on the far left.
This is very dangerous.
Do not put your fingers in that hole.
You need to get an...
- Sticky
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That would depend on the instrument. On my old BM10 when you press & hold the button it just powers up the inverter circuits to generate the...
- ppelec100
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Agreed, loss of N further down the network can give wildly changeable voltages
If it is tied to earth, then that will go up and down too.
- vwes59
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Often, but not always:
543.2.9
Except where the circuit protective conductor is formed by a metal covering or enclosure containing
all of the...
Who knows? There's this, in the OSG app H:
"Permanently connected equipment should be locally protected by a fuse complying with BS 1362 of...
- 154988
- UK Electrical Forum
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No. I make no assumptions about the installation, and will verify that it is Earthed (likely through live testing). But concerning myself with...
The cut out is 35mm but what about the width of the downlight with the bezel? You can gain maybe a few more mm so you could possibly cut a 40mm...
- Jay92191
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Yep. But someone on another forum explained it in three sentences, without responding to everything else but what I asked.
Thanks anyway. Sorry...
- TeriJesil
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Can LV cables and earth cables be run in the same ducting or conduit or do the need to be run separately? Same applied to ELV and earth cables?
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Ỳou won't! We've been in the game long enough to recognize the "Four in a bed" types as soon as they arrive, but we're ahead of them. We've seen...
- pirate
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Just looking through is and all my quotes were my own garbles maybe I should write a book.
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If you have a UTR then you must have applied for it so it should be fine unless anyone knows different. Did you register through the CIS scheme...
- cme electrics
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Thank you so much for that!
When I went to do the Ze at the DB, I tripped the RCD in the CU in the house, I understand that's a hard question...
- danspark12345
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Least it looks like your at the end of line of loop in method cos you could may have had an extra live ,neutral earth.fun terminating into what...
- MACCA 2020
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Norcal - thanks, belatedly. 'Tis the season when I don't get anything done, even though this project is near the top of the list.
Per your...
- Pants
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I've been asked to replace an Xpelair CF20 extractor fan which has been recessed into the ceiling. I've had a rummage and managed to find a CF20TX...
- Resu
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Although not a fan of tiltables (unless in genuine need), I do agree that bigger downlights look more generous. I've personally gone for ≈60 JCC...
Just seen this on facebook, near me (stroud , Glos)
There always seems to be people looking for experience or an apprenticeship, so hopefully...
- HappyHippyDad
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I agree no benefit in having it at the Db.
Any electronics in circuit that might be skewing the readings?
Smokies. Or smart switches?
Might have been covered already, but what about...
Given the obvious limited capacity of whoever fitted the switch and who knows what else, I'd be keen to check the "earth" is definitely connected...
- MadSapper
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Did this many times back in the 70s and 80s. You'd be faced with extending or modifying sometimes nearly new wiring in twin without earth, and...
- SGG123
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I think your plan is good, provided there is a suitable socket in the right place.
- richje100
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NAPIT Certification Scheme
Napit wont accept my C&G 2363 unit credits
The search they do should bring it up. Cropped from the one I was sent to evidence my statement. :
- Albirto123
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A local “trader” some years back was selling computers with mains plugs similar to that posted by w0z above, that went to trading standards too...
Personally, I would just put them in the observations, the inspection schedule is not exhaustive.
- JBsparky1
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Was in a motor factors, many years ago, selecting a white paint, for a complete respray of a car.
There were thousands of coloured swatches...
- R1R2Dave
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I've completed this job now!;)
That name rings a bell though - think I did fit some and found them a bit on-the-cusp of dropping out the ceiling...
- Teddy Lop
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Have you carefully followed the diagram on the ballast as some need wiring to be altered at the lampholders?
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I suspect they are PBJ (PolyButyl Jute) which can still be serviceable.
- Tony Baker
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Yes all the DC motors at my last job were connected via SWA
- davebargh64
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Hi all, I’m due to start the Level 3 Diploma in Electrical Installations in February 25. I’ve been advised that part of the course is to complete...
- RobRS51
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Anyone have any experience, good, bad or indifferent of Eaton Green Motion Home charge points? I've been asked about these, so I'd like to give...
any help chaps :)
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I have been to the college and been offered a place at Level 3 Electrical & Electrical Engineering. 2 year course; As an old bloke lol
It kinda...
- damunk
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Something seasonal to get back into posting into this thread….
Set 10293 “Santa’s Visit”
This now sits on the table under our Xmas tree… and I...
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ahah someone onsite said that i honestly don’t know how i managed to do it, i feel like such an idiot, it was going so well and then last night i...
- CJW567
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been a while since I looked here tbh.
definitely don't have the funds atm to subscribe or I would tbh.
what's the Broke the Internet badge...
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This controller might do the job if you have single colour strip. You'll still need a power supply prior to this!
Lots of additional features you...
- Ed Knights
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I generally thought double stack boards were more for situations where a portrait design is better suited to the cupboard - you still generally...
- axt123
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Dead testing should prove that your earthing is in good condition before proceeding to live testing.
- tomodo
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Possibly an extra test built in to ensure that the earth lead is connected, but not since the days of the old voltage operated earth leakage...
- Lesly1
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In my opinion that is incorrect as the cpc could be broken but parallel paths may not suggest this. From previous threads you clearly have issues...
- tomodo
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In the U.K., depending on cable type and routing, an rcd may not be required
- Brownie
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I think I might have mentioned it before, but I did work at the Royal Marines base in Arbroath…. Used my own car, and on one say they heavily...
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If you don't match the load to the output impedance requirement of the amplifier you won't get maximum power transfer to the load. You have...
- quckwire
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Rarely do jobs with FP, have in the past and no doubt will in the future but it's annoying waiting when time is ticking on the completion date
You would have to say internal.
- Robb04001
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- Marie Spencer
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- garyde
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Every oil boiler I've worked on has used a photocell for flame detection. Even though your boiler is inefficient by current standards, as long as...
- Justin Time
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thank you so much. that worked out. i ended up shorting the live switch and sparks flew, but i recovered and its all working now. :)
- notShai
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I'll enquire but there are alot of other services buried in the car park, I don't know if it gonna be possible. Thank you
If the joist layout permits it, take the 4" right up to near the shower, if possible, dropping the basin waste into it as well. I've just put in a...
Indeed, that was my thought, a B20 having a 60A instantanious trip should easily cover a inrush for a domestic fridge, and if the fridge and...
- axt123
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Another tip for metal boxes, the single box version…. Is to fold flat the fixing lugs that you won’t be using… the top and bottom ones
- j0hnnn
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if you wanna installed second lighting included existing switch, that way is allowable.
- Certain-Jacket-5244
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Hi Brian ,
So true, Got millions of those lying around too...as A driver maker i look at all faults i see,
I guess its part of the job...
thanks
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Hi Dave
Run a heavy wire from the Driver and down the corner of the cabinet, then solder on a smaller "t intersections of wire to the LED strip...
- Dave8989
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It depends very much on what RCD you are using, or even If you are using one.
For example, if the RCD is 500mA then a max Ra of 100ohms is classed...
- Sam2020
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thanks ill give it a try but the problem is that i have a learning difficulty and even if i wrote down the formula a million times down, i would...
- m8thy87
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thats exactly how we are using the heating atm
Thats exactly how we are controlling the heating at the moment,boiler perm on and wall stat...
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Try using the switch
You can try the Touchdim function, remove the dimmer switch and use a retractive switch, like a bell switch to control the...
- ReganE
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I am with you. Their RCD did not comply with the standard. The only one I know that does comply, though I am sure it isn't alone, is the Garo...
Two cables each one being 240.0?
Not sure never seen it written like that.
Hi,
Unless you use unswitched sockets, there may not be much you can do unless you add something inline. A lot of the voice (alexa, apple...
- Grayza
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what is the piece of equipment and part number?
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thanks for the reply mate, I am currently working with a qualified electrician gaining experience been like 5 months with him now all domestic.
Evening all,
Just after a sense-check before I commit & send the quote.
I’ve been asked to run in an SWA to feed a small CU that’ll sit inside...
- TurnerElectrical
- UK Electrical Forum
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Not sure how these things operate, but I expect a limit switch near each extreme position to tell the motor to stop.
Have you got a wiring...
- Thrusten
- UK Electrical Forum
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My understanding is it's not necessary unless compromising a fire barrier. Hager instructions:
Cable Access:
Cable access into the metal...
Generally it would depend on the circumstances whether the armour is earthed both ends or not, and not just dependent on whether it's 2 or 3 core...
- LENNYLENNY16
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Oh my heed .hope you get your roof sorted ,this weather is going to get worse .the rain was going upwards last night with the wind lol.
- Jock from the north
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I was considering that, however the loft isn't boarded, not exactly the lightest 🤣 I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that but maybe that's the...
- SparksSB
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You cant just "avoid" the use of RCD's for nuisance tripping... it will depend on how the cable is routed. (ie buried less than 50mm)
What has...
- GarryT
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Good question now to start with thermosetting insulated conductors are not tri-rated that is something different. Table 4E1A deals with this type...
- Charlie_Don't_Surf
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You’d have to change the size but you could just fit an LED panel behind the Perspex or whatever it is you’re using for the opaque top. Sizes of...
- Cannik
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Hello freddo (and everyone else who commented!),
Thanks for your comment. Using that info, I now have this on the main:
and this on the...
- Nick75
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The whole thing looks a bit of a mess, hanging cables and junction boxes, 15A fuse holder fitted to 30A base etc.
- Caplumbing
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I was a model in the Janet Frazer catalogue, if that's of any interest :)
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That 'stranded 2.5mm' was probably imperial 7/.029 which is about 2.9mm2. Which might account for expected readings being different.
- aliensbrains
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This is definitely fire-rated, but it's perfectly understandable if you doubt it - I doubted it too when I first bought it!
This particular one...
Integral has newly released a tiltable version of this downlight. However unlike its fixed counterpart, it's only IP20; not IP65 rated for...
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Customer has knocked a bell box off the wall and destroyed it. They would like it removed from the programming so that the alarm can be activated...
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Hi there just after some advice
Just done my AM2 and made a blunder on my test and inspection which I know I will fail .. however I have 2391...
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The goal posts have moved several times so I'd suggest phoning both of the main schemes and asking them. I've always found Napit and NICEIC...
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Thought you would enjoy this one:
A new extension was built which needed a new CU. The problem the builder faced was the Henley block was full...
Update
I’ve been in contact with Solax directly, showed them all the readings I’ve got, and they agree it’s a very high voltage, and that’s...
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There is obviously an optimum slope, which actually varies with the time of year, but there is also one best average for the year, but of course...
- Leo Breydon
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I think they are just asking for details of the install, including any calculations, such as max voltage and current checks. So yes the MCS PV...
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Thank you! I will add a manual transfer switch.
I was hoping that I'd be wrong and it wouldn't be an issue. Sigh. I guess I'll dig out the...
- TimeOutside
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Well done I've got mine comming up in Feb. Last time guy was spot on .got a rewire to do in late December so hoping that will do
- HappyHippyDad
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I can't envisage a problem with using an extension lead socket strip...
- BamBam95
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A suitable contactor can be used for safe isolation, but to be suitable it must be marked with the specific symbol for isolation and would have to...
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Google tells me that a retic controller is for controlling irrigation systems. I would expect these to have an internal switch, probably volt...
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I was wondering if it was a symbol for a cable joint,
wasn't sure, so i didn't post and run the risk of showing myself as an imposter that knows...
- ewandingwall
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Ha.had a whole school corridor like that when I was an apprentice ,was only changing type of fitting .nightmare .couldn't work out why there was...
Power off !
The switch wires will be the ones that go low resistance when the switch is turned on and go open circuit when its off.
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I'd always go for 25mm2 5core over 50mm2 3core, with the cores paired up. Considerably cheaper, easier to terminate and ready to go, if ever 3...
- longshanksii
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That person hasn't been seen on the forum for over two years.
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Do any one have the Connection details of L2200 JUMHO Signal Controller ( Navigation Panel)
Good Day to All of You,
Do any one have the Connection details of L2200 JUMHO Signal Controller ( Navigation Panel)
Thanks & Best Regards
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Yes, supply via buried SWA from the main dwelling into new CU. The main house is TT. New CU to have RCBO on all circuits. The workshop area will...
- Colin33
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