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    single phase motor contactor starter

    By the look of the photo the cap is integrated with the motor. I suspect the white cables are micro-switches - is the saw supposed to stop when it reaches its end travel? Does the motor run when you press and hold the green button? The original pic looks like there's live and neutral in at the...
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    Help with wiring standalone PIR

    Oh well, spent 10 mins drawing the most squiggly lined drawing the world has ever seen but couldn't get it to appear on here. Leonardo Da Vinci would have thrown away his paint brush in desperation at the magnificence of this creation. Unfortunately, you're gonna have to take my word for the...
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    Underground Cable Joints

    I'd hope he's finished the job by now - the original post was in January :)
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    Part P or not part P, that is the question....

    Hopefully Mr. Shakespeare will forgive my butchery of his words :) . I'm a commercial/industrial spark and haven't really had much to do with the domestic side since leaving a contracting firm a good few years ago (long enough for the cable to be red and black) so I'm hoping for a few...
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    Multiple CT meter install

    It was a shiny, spanking new building that had its electrics designed and installed by one of the country's biggest contractors (rhymes with Ben Dee Gailey) and I guess , if things aint changed since I did my apprenticeship with them, they'd have put a D/B in for every socket and light fitting...
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    Another Bloody Cowboy, is this the worst CU change ever ???

    What a loser! Wasting all those MCB's. He could have put the rings in with the cooker and the lighting and storage heaters in another one leaving plenty of space for future additions :wink_smile:
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    Is this the worst install you have ever seen? *Feedback wanted!*

    Fascinating example of how to wire an installation if you're a mafia hitman...
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    aurora led sunken spotlights

    We don't use aurora fittings (not for any bad reasons, we just use different ones) but we've found that, for floodlights/streetlights/corn lamps, it's better to have a separate driver and LED combination for reliability. Guess it's down to the electronics running that little bit cooler but it...
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    Multiple CT meter install

    We've just do something similar for a client. The bus bar was tapped four times on each floor (one for lighting, one for power for each wing of the building). Our client wanted to sublet/split the floor so we had to divvy up the boards so each one had lighting / power. We then fitted 4 sets of...
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    Hello

    Can't beat doing things arse first eh? Thanks to all who've replied to my threads, it's appreciated. Now to the introductions... Hi all, my name is Rich (though I go by the name of chocca on t'interwebthingy). I did my appenticeship more years ago than I care to remember; none of these new...
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    Distributors Fuse Rating and Type

    Funnily enough I had the same thing the other day. Slammed the meter cupboard door in frustration... and the carrier just popped right out!
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    Earth rings on SWA cables

    Thanks for confirming my thoughts. There are times when its easy to talk yourself into doing more than necessary just cos you overthink the job... Once again, thanks for the replies.
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    finding a balance

    You have my sympathies Dean. I'm a fair bit older than you and I've been QS at my last 3 firms (fisrt one went bust, 2nd was a stop-gap and third is a new-ish start and doing pretty well) and agree with one of the earlier replies abouit being neither one nor the other. The management regard you...
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    Earth rings on SWA cables

    Hope this is in the right place... Our firm recently tested a 20 year old office installation and one of the flagged items is the lack of earth rings on the swa cables feeding the under floor tracks. The cables are glanded into the metal D/B. Earth for the sockets is provided by a third core...
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    Remedial certificate?

    Forgive the ignorance of a site newbie but what do you guys do after you've completed the remedials following a test? Several of our clients want a nice, shiny, "all is well" piece of paper to wave at their insurance companies. All well and good if the work has involved somethiing that...
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