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  1. 1Justin

    Recommend a IP65 consumer unit please.

    Thanks guys. I'll take a new look at those Hager and Schneider ones. I have only once or twice used a Hager board. My local Rexel does it - meaning plenty of opportunity for bargaining :)
  2. 1Justin

    Recommend a IP65 consumer unit please.

    Could someone recommend me a 7 unit wide (minimum) IP65 consumer unit? Plastic is OK, - it's for a horticultural site in a polytunnel. I find Garo, Protek, any others? (Looks like I'll have to populate it anyway with A.N. Other breakers and parts). I want want robust enough to take several...
  3. 1Justin

    Unreasonable expectations and gardeners

    I came across a gardener-installed socket outlet for a pond pump a foot underground the other day! Recently fitted, then back-filled below the tulips. (Screwfix IP66 one.. so must have been fine eh?)
  4. 1Justin

    Is this NICIEC extractor fan installation safe?

    If you were to also know that at 6 o-clock is live+switched live, and at 7 o-clock is the original power in. - You might spot that everything connected beyond this JB is L-N reversed :)
  5. 1Justin

    Is this NICIEC extractor fan installation safe?

    Bathroom upgrades and extract fans seem to attract the very worst of the worst. Perhaps because householders plans often focus on the lowest cost quotes, and it's all about the cost of the marble tiles... And it's not just electrics. - The quality of ductwork for airflow management and humidity...
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  8. 1Justin

    Very strange this one.

    Most GU10's are well suppressed in order to meet EMC regs. Being all-in-one are also easy to test in evaluation labs. - That's not to say a lamp meeting regs produces no interference, it's just that a sample of the model has been tested to be below a level deemed to be adequate. If it's bad and...
  9. 1Justin

    Advice regarding inrush current please?

    I've fitted eleven x 28 Watt floods once (~300W total) and had to upgrade to a 16C breaker. (Phew..that was too close for comfort on R1+R2 for my already installed cables..). I'd began with 6B and taken every step up from there till I arrived at 16C. - These were Meanwell drivers on Ledzip floods.
  10. 1Justin

    LED drivers in Celotex with no space

    Barking IMO to line a roof with Celotex then cut a load of holes in it. - I try to persuade customers not to, but I don't always succeed.
  11. 1Justin

    Which wholesaler is your preferred option and why? Is it just price?

    Pricing is so important for me. I have accounts with mainstream ones like the Senate/Rexel/Wilts combo and with Edmundson. My gripe with those is it's not possible to get sensible prices to cost a job without a load of pain, so I try to avoid them. Whenever I gripe to Rexel etc about pricing, -...
  12. 1Justin

    Caught out with new storage heaters...

    I fitted a load of them as replacements. As it turns out the job was planned and second feed also planned. They do work well and the instant heat section is IMO essential in some circumstances to get by the "cold evening" problem. For the instant heater part, those second elements are not so...
  13. 1Justin

    Best value fused switch plus 2 module type 2 SPD?

    I think it's because SPD's are so new. Scarcely anyone listing them except the BG ones which can be got online now. But BG don't do a fuse switch for a submain AFAICT. It would be good if there was a "BIN" ready-made unit. Early days for SPD's still.
  14. 1Justin

    Best value fused switch plus 2 module type 2 SPD?

    Why not, they don't share a busbar since cables will connect across, and that's the issue. (Din rail & busbar offsets, hence incorrect clamping with consumer units which is why I never do it). Most modules are adequately close re the front case openings.
  15. 1Justin

    How do you keep the dust down

    Spraying with water works well but you need an accomplice for it to be completely effective. It's no good just wetting the surface. I've used a pump-up garden sprayer with a long lance. Get your assistant to guide that constantly right into the blade cut and the dust miraculously nearly...
  16. 1Justin

    Best value fused switch plus 2 module type 2 SPD?

    Has anyone done this yet on a budget? I'm pricing a job to run a submain off a TN-S. I'll need a fused switch incorporating SPD alongside in the same enclosure. Price sensitive. Thinking of a budget Lewden off the shelf fused switch (in 4 module enclosure), ditching the enclosure and buying 6...
  17. 1Justin

    Stupid positioning of consumer units...

    This one. Recent kitchen too, one-piece corner cabinet, 500mm door.
  18. 1Justin

    Stupid positioning of consumer units...

    This one. Recent kitchen too, one-piece corner cabinet, 500mm door.
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  20. 1Justin

    How to use E7 across rest of house?

    It may sound tough.. but I'll say it anyway. We need more people on this soapbox. Your holiday let needs a deep energy efficiency makeover. Roof insation, external wall insulation. Forget Part L1b, - building regs still provide mostly inadequate insulation standards for our overheating...

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