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  1. 1Justin

    IT engineer turned electrician

    It seems strange that popular opinion warrants that as people age, they should be moving OUT of the more manual jobs into more sedentary ones. The complete opposite is in fact true. - Youngsters have the constitution to remain nearly stationary nearly all day and still stay reasonably healthy...
  2. 1Justin

    Quinetic wireless switches sold by TLC. Any experience of them?

    OK, for anyone interested. - These I think might become common for my garden projects in future. The unit itself seems nice and solid. It doesn't need a separate enclosure and it has substantial cable grips. Only a single mounting screw, but one's own cable clamps would prevent rotation if...
  3. 1Justin

    IT engineer turned electrician

    9 hours behind a computer all day is a tough life. I used to do it also in RF/mobile comms design. Expect to get fitter and sharper, but have loads less money - And if you are on your own, you never get to stop work.
  4. 1Justin

    Quinetic wireless switches sold by TLC. Any experience of them?

    I picked one up yesterday since the demo seemed to work well out into the TLC car-park. If I get time I'll wire it up for a test and do some "proper" checks round my own brick house and report back.
  5. 1Justin

    Proving unit on assesment?

    I scarcely ever get mine out, there's nearly always a live source. It's a Martindale one, and every time I do get it out, I'm reminded that it's really only capable of "proving" it's own inadequate design. - It can push about 3 mA, hence manages just 60 Volts into my Dilog Voltage indicator...
  6. 1Justin

    Quinetic wireless switches sold by TLC. Any experience of them?

    Thanks for all those. It sounds like I might get away with it. Could always put the receiver outside the garage but not nice.
  7. 1Justin

    Quinetic wireless switches sold by TLC. Any experience of them?

    Who's used these, and got any practical experience of range performance when there's a wall/window in the way? (FYI the transmitters don't use a battery, but get their energy by giving a big thwack to a lump of piezo). Having many years in radio electronics, I'm well enough aware that...
  8. 1Justin

    Recessed Patio Lights

    @wirepuller. Nice idea. - It relies on sleeves being pretty long doesn't it, especially if a longish run and aiming to get some fall on the 100mm. And also a sleeves a close close fit to the pipe hole. - Checking sleeves just now, I noticed some from "Enlite" which are deeply ribbed, which...
  9. 1Justin

    Recessed Patio Lights

    When you begin burying joints in walls, however you do it, you are setting yourself up for problems with outdoors wiring. I checked out a 2 year old new-build not so long ago. The contractor had buried all the joints and drivers to a load of Collingwood wall lights somewhere inside/behind a soil...
  10. 1Justin

    Recommendations please - rechargeable work light

    Get an 18650 battery rechargeable headlamp off Ebay. Probably £10 and ultra bright if you investigate and select carefully re the LED die they choose. Get one with two cells mounted at the back, and a strap over the top. Dispose of any supplied 18650 batteries (supplied Ebay ones they will be...
  11. 1Justin

    Thoughts about early 1960's wiring methods .... please

    Yep, ex council properties. I worked on one recently where the source was most definitely a "ring" but 80% of the sockets were individual spurs with all the JB's hidden and inaccessible. Horrible to fault find.
  12. 1Justin

    Cables through drilled joists

    Draw new one in very slowly if it's getting a bit close. You can build up heat and melt insulation off the fixed cable quite easily.
  13. 1Justin

    Torque settings - hmm

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    Inrush currents and solutions......

    Good. - & just FYI to help understand the range of these figures and how the method of measurement greatly affects to answer.. The 30W LED drivers which I mentioned in a previous post (Meanwell) where I had fitted eleven into one circuit, are individually specified at 55 Amps /500us. Hence since...
  16. 1Justin

    Inrush currents and solutions......

    I'd be surprised if you can get a figure from Enlite, but if you do, then let us know! With domestic lights I don't think you will have a problem though. I have had issues only once, but that was fitting 11 off 30W floods with Meanwell drivers. I eventually needed to fit a C16 breaker and only...
  17. 1Justin

    strange fault - who can solve it?

    If there were bonding N return currents due to previous, could there also be unbonded extraneous parts unaccounted for at the tank end? eg part-plastic ground floor radiator plumbing with Cu going back underground? - It's common enough to find that sort of alteration. Return current out of...
  18. 1Justin

    EICR Test Results mostly left blank

    "There is not always a need to do R1+R2 tests, this is really an initial verification test and the installation is already energised." Potentially true, but that's coming from a nice starting position. I get called out (and by the sound of it the OP) to do EICR on shoddy old places which have...
  19. 1Justin

    EICR Test Results mostly left blank

    Keep a record of the person who did the EICR. Tell the customer. - Not that you can do anything with it mind you. Perhaps making it public on these forums that they are being noted might make some pull their socks up. I have about four in this category. More or less blank ( or completely wrong)...
  20. 1Justin

    when is a cat 2 fittin not a cat 2 . . . .

    There is a lot of ceiling lighting about, CE marked, which bears Class 2 markings, but relies on integrity of a single layer of thin walled plastic of a microscopic clip together JB loose inside metal pattress. These are sold by big UK retailers, I don't understand how they get to be "Class 2"...

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