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  1. timhoward

    Ballast for low pressure sodium street light bulbs

    Sadly not very near Swindon! I'm in Oswestry. Thanks a lot for the thought though!
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    Ballast for low pressure sodium street light bulbs

    Ah, that explains the scarcity of them! It's looking like he has a choice between 1: something 2nd hand like this: PHILIPS 35W SOX STREET LIGHT LANTERN WITH NEW LAMP, HAS PHOTOCELL AND GEAR 240V | eBay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326317128377 if he REALLY wants to stick to this technology. 2...
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    UK Megger 1720 probe socket assembly replacement

    I've had that happen once. I got it out with a left hand threaded drill bit
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    Issues with megger mft1720

    Yes, they are. Tim
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    Ballast for low pressure sodium street light bulbs

    I have a customer that had an older street light with a 30W Phillips Sox bulb in in. It's an absolute pain to get to as it's mounted on a building very high with obstacles preventing easy ladder access and steps / ramps at ground level all around it. When it stopped working I offered a new LED...
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    Advice for registering for napit or neicc

    The goal posts have moved several times so I'd suggest phoning both of the main schemes and asking them. I've always found Napit and NICEIC helpful on the telephone. The former was more responsive when I needed them to be, but it was the middle of lockdown at the time so it wasn't exactly normal...
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    When electrics go wrong!!!

    Thought you would enjoy this one: A new extension was built which needed a new CU. The problem the builder faced was the Henley block was full. No problem, remove the tails that feed a switched fuse and SWA for static caravan and connect his screwfix special there. Then sacrifice his RCD plug...
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    Electric screwdiver

    I've had a couple of these for 3 years. They don't come with a flat blade. They have as much oomph as a fart in a windmill which makes them perfect for faceplate screws. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brifit-Precision-Electric-Screwdriver-Rechargeable/dp/B0C81FL2M3
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    Megger 1kv IR faulty?

    Good stuff. That's a decent tester you have there. When doing routine IR tests at 500v and 250v, still press and hold. My boss used to say 'don't be afraid to warm things up!' Seeing how the IR changes with time can be informative, e.g. if the results improves the longer you hold it can suggest...
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    Megger 1kv IR faulty?

    Can I check something - on Megger's IR testing is press and hold the test button, and for 1kv there is a delayed start for safety. Are you pressing and letting go or pressing and holding?
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    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    This week's collection: 1 - sent by my assistant in his holiday let. Many questions come to mind and that's before you read the label. I asked him if it was an SPD tester. 2 - I don't think I've ever found 3 live sources over a single downlight before... 2 transformers with primary...
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    UK Swa as main earth ?!?

    Obviously it's electrically irrelevant and I'm not trying to pick an argument that flies in the face of common sense.... Thing is, I've never found anything in the regs to specifically say how to size bonding in a separate building that becomes TT at point of entry. 541.1.1 seems to make no...
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    UK Swa as main earth ?!?

    I'm making a lot of assumptions, but if 100A is a sufficient max demand total for the 3 properties (eyebrow raised a bit), volt drop is ok, the CPC is sized by calculation for ADS of the switched fuse and you proceed as you suggest to make this distribution circuit TT the far end so each...
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    UK Swa as main earth ?!?

    It should be a cpc, but reading his post it sounds as though the SWA heads off before the consumer unit or any protective device and he essentially has 160m meter tails! I think that is why it’s being called the ‘main earth’. A diagram would be worth 1000 words in this thread. I suspect it...
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    Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

    Just a quick comment to confirm that Ubiquity is excellent gear, I've used their network switches, AP points, point-to-point line of sight links and cctv cameras on a few jobs. As above, injectors are available and mesh mode works well.
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    UK Scame Advance 2 RCD interlock socket

    That was rather lazy wording on my part. I wasn't testing those as part of the TEIC or completion certificate. These sockets had had appeared since my last EICR 2 years ago, and no one could show me an EIC, so I insisted on checking them out first. They were in fact ok, only thing was one had...

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