Just thinking out of the box here....
Could you not use a power unit from a caravan/motor home? Where mains voltage charges the battery, and the battery powers the 12v DC lights.
Use existing cables and switches and change the lights to work on 12v DC LED units.....and if it doesn’t work, just...
I don’t think the wife would appreciate it! Might find a place in the garage for it.
The coupler on the top is 1” but it’s actually an earth coupler, the screws are 2BA. I know the sort you mean when you refer to Conlok, I’ve seen elbows and tees on the smaller 5/8” conduit (usually lighting)...
I agree with that, I did an EICR on 5 year old installation (offices, lecture rooms etc) and the faults for something so new, were unbelievable. The biggest headache was having to rewire a ring circuit in singles (metal trunking above ceiling and dado on the wall) that had 4mm L and E, and...
Thanks Pete, I was kind of guessing around that time, knew it was older than 1960s. There were also a couple of Crabtree ones, but they weren’t as good condition as this one, plus they had fuse carriers missing, although they were redundant, they were all still connected to live Henley blocks...
Found this in the cellar of an old house in Durham...
The neutral is fused so I’m guessing it’s “really old”
Any body know roughly the era it would be?
Beware the old KQE RCBO and DOM are made opposite to each other....in terms of fitting to the bus bar.
It is possible to remove the clip on the KQE type to give a normal screw terminal (we often did it when fitting into old Merlin Gerin boards) however the new Schneider type you can’t remove...
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