I actually started with an agency with pretty much no experience apart from coming from being an apprentice lift engineer, just blagged it to get my foot in the door as a sparks mate, ended up managing to get on to the adult traineeship with the company I was working with through the agency...
I always like to mix the lighting, for a kitchen or bathroom I will fit cool white, hallways and rooms etc warm white. I am doing a kitchen now, cool white in the downlights with warm white for the under cupboard lights, looks braw.
I had the same issue a while back, managed to get one that was pretty silent and reasonably priced, took a few attempts though! You also need to make sure the contactor is the correct type for heating, some are only for lighting or similar loads. I will check back my invoices for the make.
I've just taken on an apprentice, so far so good, council are helping fund him as well so can't complain, they pay half his wage for 12 months, do you have similar down your way? Next up is another van and spark with possibly another apprentice, that is the daunting bit, the initial outlay of...
Why are you having to put a contactor is now, how did it work before?
You need to power the coil of the contactor with whatever does the switching, A1 would be your switch wire and A2 your neutral, you would then need to power your lights through the contactor relay. That is a simplified...
Not with the cheaper tapes, they always fall off, I used to get the 5m roll from Yesss for around £30, signal is rubbish on remote as it is a infra red it uses, put it behind kick board and it doesn't work, no buy more expensive stuff it sticks perfect and the remote is great, uses rf so signal...
1st fix, get them in pre plaster, nice and level and tight so they can't be moved up or down, let plasterer plaster right up level with the box so it doesn't protrude, job done, love fast fix boxes lol.
I think the drawing is just poor, to me it actually only shows 1 leg of a ring being crimped, at first I thought it was as you describe, but I believe it is only 2 legs being crimped together, if it is the case, the drawing would have made more sense with the legs coming together in a ring shape!
+1 on the splice lines, got loads in the van but always go for the wagos for some reason, splice lines take up less space and allow a straight through connection.
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