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  1. Dave OCD

    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    I knew it ! :) If you have a detached garage it's probably fed in 1.5 SWA.
  2. Dave OCD

    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    What an utterly stupid position to fit the main switch with the top so close to the top of the meter box, the outgoing tails then look a mess, that was probably the meter bodger fitter though. I don't suppose the Electrical Contractors have the initials CE by any chance ?
  3. Dave OCD

    Incoming tail retaining clips

    I've often used 16mm T&E Clips when running a pair of 16mm tails together, it can look really neat . but so many seem to go with 25mm tails as standard now.
  4. Dave OCD

    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    He may have used the grey and green/yellow as a 'volt free' switching pair from the relevant boiler terminals - still not right though.
  5. Dave OCD

    Pond Pump tripping new consumer unit RCD

    I've seen a number of very expensive fish killed by a faulty pump - the owner kept resetting the RCD.......
  6. Dave OCD

    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    They couldn't find a bit of g/y sleeving and didn't want to leave a bare cpc which would be non-compliant. :)
  7. Dave OCD

    Putting a chandlier up

    I'd turn the bracket 90 degrees to be parallel with the centre of the lath that's visible - although it could be better to spread the weight across two. I hope the OP gets it after all this , thank god there aren't 3 or 4 cables present. :)
  8. Dave OCD

    RCD Tripping when bypassing kitchen circuit straight from main fuse

    I suspect the RCD may be the main switch and he's taken the possibly faulty circuit out of an MCB and straight into the outgoing side of the RCD to try and 'fix' a problem...
  9. Dave OCD

    Putting a chandlier up

    I'm afraid you're not quite getting it, just screw through the ceiling into the wood, the screw will make the hole as you turn it with a little bit of pressure. if the bracket isn't on the ceiling surface but behind it it would be impossible to fix the light to the bracket.
  10. Dave OCD

    Putting a chandlier up

    You fit the bracket on the ceiling NEXT to the hole, the bracket is then on the ceiling and when the fitting is connected the base covers the hole when fixed to the bracket.
  11. Dave OCD

    Putting a chandlier up

    It really couldn't be simpler, position the bracket with the middle in line with the cable hole but offset so that the fixing holes are under the centre of the visible wood and screw it up until tight and secure. The screws themselves will cut through the plaster as you drive them up into the...
  12. Dave OCD

    Street lights on PME?

    The other thing that surprised me when I started the job was T&E being the cable of choice for the circuit , I just assumed it would be flex ? 1.5mm for columns up to 6 metre and 2.5 for anything above for 'mechanical strength'.
  13. Dave OCD

    Street lights on PME?

    Generally a 16mm concentric looped supply so a 10mm earth was the spec.
  14. Dave OCD

    Street lights on PME?

    The incoming supply is a DNO one although often looped from the incoming side of the cutout between the lights along a road. So each supply point is effectively the source mate.
  15. Dave OCD

    Street lights on PME?

    It would be a 10mm straight from the link in the DNO cutout [smaller than a domestic setup] to a large brass bolt on the inside of the column. This is the installation MET so the CPC of the cable feeding the lantern/s would also connect to this with an appropriate lug, I always thought it a bit...
  16. Dave OCD

    Street lights on PME?

    I used to work as an Electrical Inspector for my local Council, mostly overseeing a large street lighting maintenance contract. The vast majority of streetlighting is supplied via DNO supplies here and were all PME/ TNCS. But a 10mm main bonding conductor was always connected to the MET bolt...
  17. Dave OCD

    Could someone help with the age of this DB?

    They must have been relatively expensive at the time ?
  18. Dave OCD

    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    Nah Rolls Royce vs Dacia, I of course am the former... :)
  19. Dave OCD

    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    After that board pic you posted the customer insists on me doing it,sorry. :)
  20. Dave OCD

    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    Not much I'd say, a cheapo RCD Main Switch board wired by a baboon by the looks of it. :) But it's being changed soon.

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