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  1. J

    Advice wanted - unhappy with rewire

    Yeah tug test won't find every problematic termination, but it finds enough to be worth the 10 seconds it takes to do it, especially with multiple conductors into one terminal. It's no substitute for good workmanship, inspection and testing just complementary.
  2. J

    Devices plugged into BS1363 Socket Oulet

    I suppose it didn't need a fuse according to the wiring regulations as there's no flex but it wasn't built to handle the mechanical stress in the environment. Not sure if that should have been covered by pat testing, if it was vulnerable for many years I'd expect it to be picked up. The new...
  3. J

    Maximum Luminaire Weight Supported by Plasterboard Ceiling

    Nice ideai and I bet you love those metal or wooden puzzles you always get at Christmas where you have a load of impossibly shaped pieces and have to make it into an interlocking shape! Sounds like a joke but that actually happened when the shop below our flat fitted cctv monitor near the front...
  4. J

    Only classed as a good spark if I can run jobs???

    I can't really advise specifically but its funny that you start your career thinking you are supposed to keep climbing up the ladder and eventually you realise you're sacrificing your health and happiness for more money. You need enough money to take it out of the equation, if you have it then...
  5. J

    Paying yourself through a Ltd as a subby

    I don't want to muddy the waters but are you sure a contact has to be explicit? When i was looking at employment law for sometime who was working without a contract for a dodgy company, it appeared that a deemed concontr was automatically formed, and if the statement of employment was not...
  6. J

    Duplicate Posts - How to avoid them

    Probably there's a lot of synchronous JavaScript running on the main thread. Often advertising code is an offender for that, but it can also be poorly implemented client side code on the main website which is very common even on bigger web sites. Google have a lot of information and tooling to...
  7. J

    Looking for advice with a self made c/u

    Just put the whole thing inside a bigger enclosure;)
  8. J

    Duplicate Posts - How to avoid them

    Another hint it's this nearly always happens if your new post has caused the thread to run to an additional page of replies. Edit although having read again, littlespark has posted almost the same thing above although referring to the last instead of the first post.
  9. J

    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    Those star leds are supposed to be fixed to a decent heat sink to get rid of the several Watts or heat they give off. Maybe the problem is with whatever they are clamped to not taking the heat away
  10. J

    Duplicate Posts - How to avoid them

    Thanks for the hints! Is there a deduplication or at least prevent multiple posts within 30 seconds option on this forum? Another idea is to send a token with every post and deduplicate on that, one post per page view basically. It's an incredibly common problem in computer science ("at most...
  11. J

    I have to admit something..... and I'm a little embarrassed...

    I'm sure there was a case a year or two ago where some elbow was fluxed but forgotten to solder, then a couple of years later it eventually popped open and filled the house with gas with fatal results. The engineer who did the work was taken to trial and convicted and sentenced as the work was...
  12. J

    I have to admit something..... and I'm a little embarrassed...

    interesting about plumbers doing everything to do with lead, after all it's in the name! Nowadays roofers do the lead work on chimneys, and plumbers are using plastic... And the main thing is good on you OP for learning a new skill, I always say the day I don't learn anything is the day I...
  13. J

    Minor works R1+R2 measurement

    I personally think that you basically have to be satisfied that the r1+r2+ze complies with ADS requirements. Enough to sign your name to it on the certificate. in an installation that is well controlled you could demonstrate compliance by using the documentation available from previous dead...
  14. J

    Overload protection to a central heating pump x2

    Fixed that for you Ian!;) Maybe they put the trainees in tech support and as soon as you appear to know something useful you get moved up to a more responsible job!
  15. J

    Main earthing Conductor also bonds water

    Agree with V above, you need an MET somewhere. It's still safe so perhaps it wouldn't attract a classification on an eicr but it's going to be a pain to deal with.
  16. J

    Minor works R1+R2 measurement

    just because it's been mentioned a few times and not corrected - a Zs test does not confirm that the CPC is earthed correctly and can not be relied on. The simple reason is that the apparent earth may be provided via bonding for example an under sink water heater through a metallic pipe. Any...
  17. J

    Spurs.... Not the football type!

    home owner can do anything up to new circuits or wiring in locations containing a bath or shower without notifying the local authority. And even those if they agree with the local authority about getting it certified. However regardless of all that the whole electrical installation is a...
  18. J

    oven installation tips

    as above separate circuit would be better but it's allowable on a ring as long as other loads are taken into account. My concern is the gas side, although it's a flueless cooking appliance, with >8kw heat input you would need to check the ventilation and check gas pressures with all appliances...
  19. J

    High R1+R2 but acceptable Zs

    I would say the lighting circuit probably has a class 1 light fitting screwed to something that's bonded. You can't exclude that from the live tests, that's why the dead test is the gold standard.
  20. J

    No earthing on lighting circuit

    Great idea although for clarity itit would have to be separated extra low voltage to ensure adequate isolation between the mains and the output.

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