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  1. D Skelton

    Electrician Jobs Network Rail Hiring Distribution & Plant Technician

    A close colleague of mine is hiring a Distribution & Plant Technician at Reading, Napier Road depot. Technicians provide the essential link between the team leader and the team's operatives. Distribution & Plant Technicians work as part of a team to keep power flowing safely and efficiently...
  2. D Skelton

    High Voltage advice (11KV)

    There are five things dangerously wrong with this sentence alone. Your company need reporting to the HSE without delay. They're going to kill somebody!
  3. D Skelton

    High Voltage advice (11KV)

    I don't mean to be harsh but doing a four day AP course in no way makes you competent to deliver HV isolations or commission HV switchgear. I don't need to tell you this though because you're fully aware yourself. What I don't understand though is why you're agreeing to even take on this work...
  4. D Skelton

    Using armouring as earth and RCD protection

    No. SY braiding provides no mechanical protection, nor is it rated to carry fault current.
  5. D Skelton

    Specialist firm for running cables in underground?

    Screw digging, mole it. Get the farmer to hire a mole and duct the run with pre lubed and strung lengths. The groundwork costs alone for digging a quarter kilometer trench will run in to the tens of thousands!
  6. D Skelton

    Electrician Jobs Hiring Rail Distribution & Plant Technician

    I'm hiring a Distribution & Plant Technician for my department. Network Rail technicians provide the essential link between the team leader and the team's operatives. Distribution & Plant Technicians work as part of a team to keep power flowing through the electrified rails safely and...
  7. D Skelton

    Installation gensets

    Ah great, yeah DSE is fantastic. You'll know being a trained tech then how reliable and well made it is. We use a combination of Perkins and Volvo engines and we've got one mahoosive 1400kVA Cummins set. DSE controlling and monitoring all. We experience barely any reliability issues but we...
  8. D Skelton

    Installation gensets

    Deep Sea Electronics. Very good kit. Easy to use, great for monitoring. Can be specced to auto sync on change over, test and restoration so it makes generator maintenance a breeze and allows for uninterrupted planned power outages for power distribution maintenance.
  9. D Skelton

    Fan isolator

    Take account of
  10. D Skelton

    Fan isolator

    Short answer; there is no requirement in BS7671 for a bathroom fan in and of itself to be fitted with an isolator.
  11. D Skelton

    Personal pensions - Do you pay into one?

    If you start investing at the age of 30 just £100 per month in a relatively safe and diversified ETF with a conservative average annual growth rate of just 15%, by the time you're 60 you'll have over half a million pounds.
  12. D Skelton

    Bad shock off Hot Tub.

    Is it me or is there a direct correlation between the number of "what's the best way to wire up this hot tub" threads and the number of "shock off a hot tub" threads?
  13. D Skelton

    Hot tub supply

    I don't think the plug and play sets are fit for human use IMHO. Death traps waiting to strike.
  14. D Skelton

    Hot tub supply

    Due to the sensitivity of a 10mA RCD that's why I suggested having it seperate to other RCDs in the installation and dedicated only for the hot tub. The 100mA s-type will delay tripping in the event of a failure of the primary and although it would never meet regulated disconnection times it...
  15. D Skelton

    Hot tub supply

    I'd be breaking the earth on a PME and rodding down adjacent to the tub. 8 foot coupled rod. Small non-conductive four way external IP rated board with a 10mA and a 100mA s-type RCD in line. Rotary isolator mounted adjacent to the board. Take off a non-RCD way at the supply DB. If you want a...
  16. D Skelton

    Is the grass greener?

    I went from self employed to on the cards, haven't looked back since. Set myself up a nice little business a year after finishing my apprenticeship. Started out bashing houses but very quickly left it behind in favour of commercial and industrial work as my company grew. The domestic market is...
  17. D Skelton

    Meter tails >3 metres in length

    Let me re-word it then; overcurrent protection for correctly sized tails will always be provided by the main fuse. The point I was making is that within the context of 433 and 434 no other overcurrent protection is required.
  18. D Skelton

    Meter tails >3 metres in length

    These regs may feed the rumour but are certainly nothing to do with DNO's asking for isolation within 3m. Overcurrent protection for the tails will always be provided by the main fuse.
  19. D Skelton

    Meter tails >3 metres in length

    I know you weren't. I was just making a general point.
  20. D Skelton

    Meter tails >3 metres in length

    It's important to remember that their 'requirements' are nothing more than 'nice to haves'. We have no legal or moral duty to comply with them. I would take a far more case by case approach to the provision of isolation on tails rather than trying to stick religiously to a 3m preference...

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