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    Are you all ready for Christmas?

    I appreciate thoughtful gifts, so long as it's what I want and not cheap. Amen.
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    I've solved this. Instead of transferring the power from the van... Just leave the 12v lights turned off. Then park your van, leave the engine running and headlights on hi-beam shining through your window :)
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    So this is where we're at.. the op is gonna drive his 12v DC van to power an inverter to charge a 230ac battery to then power 230ac psu's to power 12v DC lights? This has reached insanity level. I invite the op to post again and let us all know what the hell their motivation is! I can only...
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    I just... Can't believe that. He must surely mean the elv circuit on the secondary side of the PSU. not the entire lighting circuit the PSU is on..
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    Are you all ready for Christmas?

    I have my Adnams beer advent calendar ready to go from tomorrow morning. 25 days of beer for breakfast - this can only end well :)
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    But why do you assume the battery would be further away? He can't energise a circuit using a 12v battery that then feeds PSU's that have 240v on the primary. Surely the battery will go wherever the PSU(s) currently reside, whatever the actual arrangement/distance is. I agree that in automotive...
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    I know... but why would the battery be further away than the mains>elv psu? The OP hasn't said it would need to be. I may have missed something, feel free to point it out if so. EDIT: Also I was once told most 12v leds will run down to about 9.5v anyway. We have run 3m ribbon from approx 10m...
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    It does seem like a lot of effort to swipe a few AH each day from a van..
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    I would assume the led circuit in question only requires 12v at source, why would it be a problem if the power comes from a 12v battery or the typical psu?
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    Or just rescue a few horses and put em to work?
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    All joking aside, electric cars are charged BIK at a flat rate including 'fuel' now, if the fuel is provided by the company you work for - presumably even if it's your own company, registered at your home address. So what exactly stops a person trading as a ltd claiming that 80% of their...
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    I won't stoop so low. There are plenty of honest folk in Enfield that would steal power from a company van without resorting to stealing someone else's company van ;)
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    Just to add to my comment above, obviously anyone looking to direct power generated from allowable company fuel for private use, should consider that whilst the power itself is not traceable, it's perhaps best not to post on a public forum to ask how to set-up an arrangement that 'could' be used...
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    Just pay to power your own 12v PSU rather than fleecing the AH from your company van :) Anyway, sounds like this could effectively be achieved using a UPS controller feeding the 12v PSU. You could use a time delay relay to switch on the 240v supply to the UPS every time the 12v supply holding...
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    Someone replaced a light switch with a timer..

    It's in sunny Stamford. The first of many as part of our retirement plan - hopefully...
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    Someone replaced a light switch with a timer..

    Always remember these rules and you can't go far wrong: The brown wire: This is the ouchie one. The green/yellow wire: This doesn't seem to do anything, it's optional. The blue wire: Just goes on the other side to the brown one. You can use the green one instead. In the industrial forum I hear...
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    Someone replaced a light switch with a timer..

    I agree, they are! And as you know, I'm not really a plumber. I can do the work, but I lack the carelessness and flatulence to be considered a professional.
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    Someone replaced a light switch with a timer..

    We've had everyone in today, building survey, asbestos survey, plasterer/decorator, and me as the plumber :) It'll all be done properly and certified. The CU was changed just shy of 5 years ago which is good, looks like a neat job done by a competent person so I expect no major faults lurking...
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    Someone replaced a light switch with a timer..

    Bit of a first for me. Looking around a house to tidy up as a buy to let and couldn't find the light switch in one of the bedrooms. Some searching later revealed the previous owners had replaced the switch with an analogue timer o_O It was the front bedroom so best guess is they had it to give...
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    AV cables in solid wall - what the regs say?

    7 years. It's odd that it has solid walls for its age.

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