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  1. J

    What do you like most about electrical work?

    Electrical testing, because its easier than working
  2. J

    Glad to see the domestic work is booming in the midlands

    I wish I could have done my apprenticeship in 17 days. I think the decorators are the electricians, in that company
  3. J

    QUERY - Potential LNE fault - Lighting

    voltage between neutral and earth points towards a missing/loose neutral
  4. J

    Best Electrician Android/Iphone apps out there?

    Got a app called Earthing and Bonding (android), helps to work out your main earth and gas and water etc bonds Its only a £1, Its good for me as I do loads of PIRs (EICRs).
  5. J

    Electrical Testing in the field

    we use laptops/netbooks at work, they seem to work well, we use office 2010 for the front/back sheets as well as the new EICR sheets. since using a netbook, I would never go back to using a biro/paper tool combination, as we have just completed a EICR of a shopping centre with 60+ DBs (24way...
  6. J

    Dummy Head

    the zip case of a multimeter works a treat, remove meter place over head and zip up
  7. J

    Socket screwed back trips rcd...

    I have had a problem like this, the problem is not with the socket that you screw back, for me the problem was with the leg of the ring connected to that socket, its hard to explain. But try IR testing the cables with the legs split
  8. J

    Errrrr disgusting!!!!!! Nasty side of electrical work!

    A few years ago we done the PIR test a 'pizza house' on the Leicester sq in London, we were there for three nights there were rats all over the place. The cockroaches knew when the staff had gone and used to come out of the woodwork. It put me off pizzas to say the least
  9. J

    A universal socket

    You can just imagine the quality of the thing as it comes from China.
  10. J

    Time to get the megger out!

    you might look like a berk, but if you do your job properly, and get the lights working they will be very happy !!!
  11. J

    Time to get the megger out!

    +1 for this
  12. J

    DNO’s laid-back attitude

    Back in the day you had to provide the electric board with a cert to say the installation was satisfactory, a (EIC), now the DNO could not care less unless it is a life or death situation how times have changed
  13. J

    pvc conduit need to be glued

    *I was taught by a 50 year old electrician, in a 5 year apprentiship*
  14. J

    pvc conduit need to be glued

    I was taught always to glue the conduit does not matter what the installation is
  15. J

    20% pir

    By rights if its 20% test, you should over 5 years test all the ccts
  16. J

    When do you change your batteries??????

    +1 for the wind up megger, my dad had one in the leather case. I batteries for my megger when ever, as I just put the receipt in
  17. J

    Rubbish products/materials

    vent axia fans now are pants, infact many things are not s well made as they used to be. crabtree-wylex- mcb recall few years ago!!
  18. J

    Does this have a BS number?

    Is it a bs 5419?
  19. J

    conduit work

    No wonder no one knows how to bend tube any more, Now when you take your AM2, all the containment is fitted for you, all you do is wire. I was an apprentice to an 'old boy' he never wanted any slip marks on the tube. The good old days, were it was it needs to be neat, not 'it will do'.
  20. J

    British gas wanna be sparkys

    no,had been out of my time about 6 years after working for a commercial nationwide company- EIC
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