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    Strange lighting fault(?) which involves a child's toy.

    This is it:
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    Strange lighting fault(?) which involves a child's toy.

    Sorry, forgot all about this! It was the toy making the noise, although the lightbulb does give out a very high pitched buzz. You wern't the first to mention a light sensor but your exactly right! There is a metal plate in the back of each shape, I assumed this made contact with something on...
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    Spur from a spur? Theoretical reason for it being allowed...

    Have I read this wrong or are you saying that the total for a double socket-outlet is 26A and not 13A? - - - Updated - - - Have I read this wrong or are you saying that the total for a double socket-outlet is 26A and not 13A?
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    Start of something

    Definately not! It means skilled electrical trained person, not a skilled chef! The way they rush around they don't care about anything electrical! If my chefs repaired everything they broke / melted I'd have a much easier life!
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    Strange lighting fault(?) which involves a child's toy.

    Bear with me. Our toddler has got a toy which is a wooden board with cut-outs to put various shapes of wooden vehicles into. When the correct vehicle is put in the correct slot it makes an imitation noise of the particular vehicle. This toy is battery powered and doesn't connect to the 'mains'...
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    What Fuse To Use

    Nice..
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    GU10 lamps blowing

    I've had 4 blow in the last two weeks on a 4 way GU10 light. I think it always happens this time of year! These are the cheapest ones from Screwfix, before this it had been months without one blowing. The worst bulbs I've found are the ones from B&Q which are also the most expensive!
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    BG consumer unit

    I believed that for the IP rating a CCU needs that the unit "should not be able to be opened without the use of a tool" I opened one in Screwfix yesterday with my fingernails. I appreciate that when you lot have bolted it to a non-flat wall it will be harder to open though!
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    Blu tac isn't a very good insulator

    In my local sandwich shop they had a cable fault on the lighting circuit. The landlords solution was to use very thin circuit board interconnection wire from the CCU up the wall and along the ceiling with blue-tac holding it in place every 50cm. Only one conductor was replaced, dont know what...
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    abbreviations

    Amazon have a free Electrical Dictionary for the Kindle. You can also get a Kindle app for iPad / iPhone etc. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Standard-Electrical-Dictionary-Engineering-ebook/dp/B004TIJJBK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349959050&sr=8-1
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    An idiots guide to induction.

    I'm going to bump this as I posted it in the wrong section and it's just been moved!
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    Electrician walked off the job half way, what now?

    What's the problem with being paid cash rather than BACS? What sort of age was was the guy who walked off?
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    Am I being overcharged?

    You are calling them builders? Are they builders or electricians? Will they give you safety certificates (Electrical Installation Certificate) for the completed work? Are they Part P registered? I imagine if you cancel they will say they have already bought the materials and that you'll have to...
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    PAT Testers question.

    On this style a screw holds the two pin plug in place, the plug can be pushed either way into the 3 pin adaptor. Sorry this is what I was getting at in the OP but somehow managed not to mention it at all!
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    PAT Testers question.

    Fair enough. What about appliances that use a shaver style plug that pushes in an adaptor plug? You don't know which way round is which! Denon DVD players and amplifiers for example.
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    PAT Testers question.

    If you were testing a Class 2 (double insulated) appliance and line and neutral were reversed in the plug, would you swap them round? If so, why? Just to avoid any possible argument with the customer?
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    invoices, receipts

    People in the Glossop area paying on time? I take it there not from Gamesley?!
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    a night to remember

    Why do you need to be "a skilled or instructed person" to plug in an extension reel?!
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    Cable ladder.

    It's in a lift well in a busy shopping centre! There are two lifts, both had the same ladder, I suspect it was the same ladder cut in half! I agrees about the bolt length. The thing that gets me about it is that the cable is stuck to the ladder using those plastic clips with double sided tape...
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    a night to remember

    Depends on the type of plastic it's made from. I worked in plastic processing for 8 years so I can identify most plastics by smell!

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