Got sent to a job today for an outside lighting issue, basically to cut a long story short I'm taking the new supply from a different DB so will be installing a new circuit to feed the time clock, so I put down for a Type C 20amp RCBO as the lights are wired in 2.5mm cable and LED floods. I got...
I'm going to hang on until I've done my 2396 course and then speak to them and see what they say, going off on a tangent what courses could I do after the 2396 course?
If I was going to work for a JIB company and get all the perks and correct wages then I probably would have a good think about it, but it just winds me up when places are asking for it and there not even JIB registered or give you the benefits or pay the wages the JIB state, it's all wrong.
I...
It wasn't part of the course I did, I completed my Apprenticeship, got my 16th Edition and did my AM2, I rang the college I did my day release and asked them about it and there reply was the course I did did not require an NVQ to be completed. I'm not to fussed as I will never join the JIB or...
Unfortunately gone are the days when companies used to pay for the courses and would send you on them all to keep you upto date, now they tell you what courses they want you to do and you've got to fund it.
There's a multiple choice exam for your first unit which can be used for each qualification, then you have a written exam for each qualification and then a practical for each qualification. I found it very beneficial to do these even having my 2391, it is just basically the 2391 split into two...
Strange as I've not heard anything either, I've just done my 2394 and 2395 to refresh my memory and Inspection and Testing skills, I got my 2391 in 2004 but hadn't done an EICR for a long time so thought I'd best get upto date. The new 18th Edition Regs has been mentioned and was informed about...
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Has anyone heard or know of the current 2394 and 2395 Inspection and Testing Courses being changed for new ones? The only reason I ask is that someone mentioned it today, but I've not heard nothing and can't find anything on the internet.
Can anyone shed any light on this...
Been looking around at current jobs being advertised and have noticed that the majority of places are asking for Electricians to have there JIB/ECS card but the companies are not JIB and nowhere near paying the JIB rate or offering the associated so called perks, so why are they asking for the...
I've never done it as I was told it was doubling your csa, how does this affect using torque setting screwdriver? Also if you look on mcb ' s or rcbo's it shows the cable as normal not doubled over.
Working onsite with a few apprentices the other day and noticed that every cable they terminated into the mcb or rcbo was doubled over, so when I asked them why they were doing it there reply was college taught them to do it that way. Now I have always terminated the cable without doubling it...
Metal CU aren't going to stop cowboys still fitting them and not making sure the terminals are tight enough by using a torque setting screw driver and doing a proper job, still going to get issues no matter what. Should make it compulsory to fit a smoke or heat detector above the CU so if a fire...
A friend of mine has just rang me and asked if someone has the 16th Edition Regs qualification but not the 17th Edition Regs qualification and they do not have the 2391 or 2395/6 should they be working on electrical installs and signing jobs off? I have told him that he needs the 17th Edition...
Yep the switch disconnector is KQ B aswell, speaking to the wholesalers everything should fit but it doesn't, I don't usually use KQ I prefer the isobar 4, the old merlin, and have never had an issue like this before. The only reason I'm using the KQ range is due to the spec stipulating it, if...
I had the pleasure of having the new company apprentice working with me at the weekend, he has come from a company that had him working minimum off 14 hour days earning £4.00 an hour with no overtime rate. He was told by his boss that he had to work weekends and if he wanted a weekend off he had...
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