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Perfect!! Thanks a lot gents. You've been massive help this last day 😁
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Unless you live in Bradford etc !
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...bell? :cool:
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Thanks, Little Spark-I hear you, and agree in theory, but from what I understand-the only "appliance" I have now connected to my "cheap rate" is...
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Thanks to everyone for all the info, I really do appreciate it.
The good news is I eventually finished the job by fitting a surface mount backbox...
Yes, the fuel gauge is fed by AC, and the diode keeps the current going one way.
There is a low fuel warning light, whose circuit closes once the...
Well yes obviously, but if the transformer is indoors and your lights are 50m down the garden then it's very easy to need pretty big cables at...
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Assuming that’s a reference to my comment (and that’s fine, no issues!!) having opened the door to comments about flying things at half mast it...
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Sometime in the 90's some 7-11 convenience stores in the area (I'm USA based) got 2 strange looking "speakers" installed on either side of their...
This fella puts his face to it about halfway through, he has an opinion on the very subject.
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I can't remember it FROM phone box because once the line was broken you had to press the 'A' button and wait for the coins to drop but you could...
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Happy belated........young pup:cool:
First voted in a general election the year after you came along, 50 back.
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"Value engineering."
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Great idea, thank you mate :)
I have the crutch of being employed by a big firm, in a good role with good pay and conditions so I really am not in a good place to comment. If I...
From experience it isn't
They won't do groundworks but you can get a quote from them for an EV charger install.
https://octopus.energy/get-an-ev-charger/
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+1 for Aico
Though annoyingly, not all that long after I fitted the multi-sensor smoke plus a CO right next to each other ... they have come out...
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Guys I’m struggling to find one item which use electric power but it’s not considered an appliance.
Certainly, there are many electric-powered items that are not considered traditional home appliances. Here's an example:
Electric Toothbrush: An...
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I would imagine by not being able to identify what earth lead applies to what circuit, unless each earth lead is identified/labelled.
Thank you. Correct on all points.
:tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy:
The manufacturer has stuck a label on the baseplate, its clear to see. I don't know what instructions came with the fitting or what was written on...
An excellent book, I highly recommend this too. It bridges the gap from the theory of the classroom to the reality of real installations.
I bought the Huepar S03CG-B from Amazon. It has one 360 degree horizontal laser and two vertical 360 degree lasers: this 360 degree arrangements...
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Why would the RCD fail … yes it can happen but then it may not.
Without it you have no protection on the TT System
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Good point. I'd forgot what the original problem was!!
Yeah cube type is ok if it's supported as littlespark says. Make sure it's a fused one though.
Thank you for your help. Will double check everything tommorow and try to find out what was on at the time of tripping. Still need to retest the...
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I won't mention the one I came across once, then. The outer sheath of the element had dissolved and the element spiral had shorted to the sheath...
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Ah! but thats where I have found cross polarity when doing an EICR (twice in about 20 years and thousands of tests......)
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Couldn't go back to an 'everything piled in a heap' van again , in fact I even have a little tantrum if I have a courtesy van for a day or 2 with...
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