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    Intermittently-working Hair Dryer

    Charities won't take electrical appliances a lot of the time now due to new laws that came out in the USA and the UK at pretty much the same time making it your liability if you sell or gift to a charity or stranger and something goes wrong, if there is a fire or a hospital visit you can get...
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    Best quality electrican tools.....

    I have knipex sidecutters and pliers and CK and wera screwdrivers, the thing is that every person on a building site likes quality drivers and pliers so they will get stolen leading to the buying of 3 of each every year and good pliers and sidecutters are £50. Other sparks like to pinch stuff...
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    Electrician Jobs London guy wants an off-grid solar installation in southern Spain

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    Chernobyl does anyone remember it?

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    600M Electrical feed to farm house underground.

    I once knew of a farmer getting a brand new generator out of a roll on skip all 2 tons of it, had been dumped straight after delivery to a wind farm building site as it gave the user problems, it was a cheap Chinese one, very basic but it worked. You'll find with most farmers they will want...
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    600M Electrical feed to farm house underground.

    600m that's a long run, can you come back with an outline of what is being supplied please? It will be a big load if it is for a barn building or a farmers workshop. The first thing I would say is to get a price from the electricity supplier for 30 wooden electricity poles, hardware and cables...
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    Car key fob lithium coin battery check voltage before replacing it

    Garages and some shops will put the cheapest batteries in and charge you £20, if you can you should get a watch shop to do it or timpsons as they use good batteries or go online and buy energizer, duracell or varta ones and do it yourself. Decent batteries will be about £5 in chemist's shops or...
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    Car key fob lithium coin battery check voltage before replacing it

    Coin cell batteries are designed to give low current power over long durations to clocks, watches and some remote control and key fobs the internal resistance and chemicals inside can change and deteriorate with age, for cheap 10 for £1 coin cells this can happen in 2 years without any use and...
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    Replacing push button with PIR

    What is it that you are trying to do with the pirs, a bit of information about the kind of room etc will help us come up with ideas grantr37
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    IPC 610 Soldering Certificate

    Hello I am looking into doing my IPC 610 soldering as it is being asked for repeatedly now. I have been soldering since I was 6years old and have done so weekly for the last 16 years since college and uni as part of my work, the certificate is demanded almost daily nowadays for panel...
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    Speaker cable for ceiling speakers

    Some cheap foil screened speaker cable from ebay or maplins, solder to the two tags on the rear of the speakers or use the phono connectors if built into the case (depending on the speaker type) then use phono connectors into the back of the tv. use the type with solder tag connectors in them...
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    New Member/Career Advice/HNC HND Electrical Engineering/ URGENT HELP!!

    Hello, CMac9 grantr37 here, typed out a response but bt booted me off so I had to log back in, now its updating and being very slow... I'll get you your HNC and keep you right about how and where you can expect to use it :) Cheers :D Have a great day
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    Glasgow : IOSH Working safely 1 day course Kelvin College, part of new CSCS/ECS

    Hello I've been off of the forum for a little while clambering around pylons and sub -stations, got a doc brown haircut to show for it :) I found out that the cscs /ecs card has changed and the IOSH safety day course is needed, am booked in for the next one on the 11th, the college have...
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    Please help with this circuit! Its not working and I have no idea why!

    I'm sure we can fix you up with a better motor speed controller board than that......
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    Please help with this circuit! Its not working and I have no idea why!

    Post the board to me and I will fix it and post it back to you...a capacitor has blown off, no polarity protection...what was your little motor for, was it a project?
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    LED Panels - fire rating and fire hoods

    Fire hoods are needed for lights as a fire below could burn through them, led fittings can go wrong as well and catch fire
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    £15 for a packet of cigarettes by 2020

    By 2020 it will be about £23 for 20 ciggarettes and £40 for an e-cigarette...£2.80 for a can of pepsi and £1.90 for a treat size mars bar...and the huge influx of people will see the end of the nhs and £400 a month medical insurance just like in the US, the main difference will be that you...
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    Anyone able to recognise this?

    dried out capacitor maybe, about the right amount of usage, mains supply moves a bit and off it goes...
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    Wood burner-detector required?

    Smoke detector :D
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    Fire suppression

    The manufacturers will sometimes say yes, but the insurance companies and health and safety would say no, it would need to be manually fired from outside an empty building and not automatic, there could be big fines and worse if it goes wrong and someone gets fumigated, worse if they have a...

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