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    UK 2391 What to expect

    Theory by distance learning. One day practice on assessment boards, with hour for lunch, next day 9-12 assessment, no lunch!
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    Circuit Advice

    Those appear to be college training boards, where did you find them?
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    what was your most dangerous job peeps

    Rather play in traffic than try that on my missus
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    Welder - what sort of amp input it will need at 240v

    Wish I had a picture of a homemade welding “machine “ I once saw. The guy used a four element bar heater wired in series with the welding handle. To vary the welding current he combined more or less bar elements in parallel. His open circuit voltage was 230v and his lights dimmed when he...
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    Becoming an Electrician - Starting Over Again - Advice?

    As a maintenance electrician I have had training and experience with PLC and Micro-controller systems given in house at the company I worked for. If you’ve used C++ you’re good for micro control and if you have an understanding of AND OR NAND NOR logic you’re into one aspect of Step/Ladder...
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    Becoming an Electrician - Starting Over Again - Advice?

    Didn’t you have any practical training when you did 2330 level 2 and 3?
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    Becoming an Electrician - Starting Over Again - Advice?

    Perhaps you could start with doing a course on the 18th Edition (Wiring Regulations) followed by contacting the JIB about registering as an Electrician. They will be able to tell you if there is anything else you need.
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    Two test leads, one port

    Do you mean like this?
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    Can connection plate be replaced by plug socket

    Or even a BS1363 certificate :)
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    Can connection plate be replaced by plug socket

    In one of the link responses one manufacturer wants a plug replacement done by “an niceic qualified electrician“ if I wanted to become “qualified”as a plug installer would niceic need to see my BS1363 certificate ?
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    catenary wire heights on bungalows

    Hey I’m using a power chair and face worse things than that! Some dropped kerbs, many shop entrances, etc. My wife will say I probably need a speed bump, I’m still trying to wheelie the damn thing !
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    When people want the lowest quote

    When will folk realise that aphorisms are there for a reason: You get what you pay for Buy cheap, buy twice Measure twice, cut once
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    Electrical competence

    The reason the electrical trade is in a mess is because everyone now wants the shortest, cheapest and easiest way to do electrical work and aren’t interested in proper training
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    Electrical competence

    Okay if you want an example of domestic heating, I was renting a flat in Luton when my boiler failed. Called a plumber who came, looked at it and said “Don’t know that model, pay me for the call out and I’ll go” Showed him a set of drawings above the boiler and he looked at them and poked about...
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    Electrical competence

    I was once asked for help by an HVAC engineer. He had designed and installed a huge air conditioning system for a shopping mall. He described how he couldn’t get his system working although he’d spent a week checking every circuit against on his installation. I looked at the main unit, the...
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    RCDs when to use

    Hey Pete I came into work in Britain when the yellow 15th Edition was out, then the blue 16th right up to date with the blue 18th edition. Used to buy the Guidance Notes as well but it became too expensive so it was Regs, OSG and GN3 thereafter
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    RCDs when to use

    Might just as well use a 61008 RCD as a main switch, there’s a security blanket for you!
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    Prefer books and animals to people

    Prefer books and animals to people
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