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  1. Rockingit

    Time to change my energy supplier

    Interesting. Also bulb to Octous except they instantly wanted to triple my DD ‘to keep on track’. I was having none of it and refused, saying let’s give it a year and if we’re adrift then I’ll pay the difference, no problem. Since then have been keeping a meticulous spreadsheet of readings and...
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    DNO incomer service cable hot during EV charge

    Cut out the nonsense middle men - report it as an electrical danger emergency then turn it on to get hot….
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    Portable Honda Petrol Generator Not Producing Enough Voltage

    If the engine is spinning at speed (1500rpm final spindle speed) then sorry to say more than likely you have a burnt out winding
  4. Rockingit

    Which sds drill brand or specs ?

    Hedgetrimmer?? Do you often do house calls then where Mrs Jones asks you to trim her bush?
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    Which sds drill brand or specs ?

    Tip: Generally speaking, once you start collecting battery power tools then you'll want to keep with the same brand as that way the batteries are interchangeable and you can save money by buying 'bare' units that don't come with a battery. So look for a product range that'll suit your needs...
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    Permanent metal building

    This all sounds like the proverbial bag of spanners, to me. Firstly, if connected via a 32A socket then the socket requires 30mA RCD protection (simply because it's a socket <= 32A) which in turn then means you can't manage discrimination with the downstream RCBO's. That's just poor design...
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    Phase wiring in single cores

    If you're running a 5c feed then a roll of black and grey single cost the same as brown, so it's a no-brainer. Where using brown as purely the only colour in a 3ph distribution to 1ph outlet scenario can get muddled is simply in cable management and identification back at the feeder board - in...
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    LED tape with effects

    The golden question here isn't about the tech, that's the easy bit (when you know how...), the question is about how realistic is your client's budget?
  9. Rockingit

    Isn't grounding where people can touch dangerous?

    Quite the opposite - it makes things safer.
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    Adverts making forum unusable. Half my screen is filled with adverts.

    Aaaand….. now gone again.
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    Adverts making forum unusable. Half my screen is filled with adverts.

    Adverts are back for me, too. Although I’m on my phone at the moment so who knows. @Dan Having just typed this I’m now struggling to even get to the send button!!!!
  12. Rockingit

    Long Cable run to garden office

    Given the very small current draw of some led lights and a few laptops that could easily be solved by a spv and battery combo.
  13. Rockingit

    2024 + 2025 TV and Movies Thread

    FFS people, I mean it’s not like I haven’t been here over a decade…. It’s Rocking-it. Although in fairness the other version could also equally apply these days!!
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    How many devices?

    Interesting. I say that as most domestic grade ISP routers are only good for 20-25 connections as far as I can tell. I moved to a business service at home purely to benefit from fixed IP and a decent(ish) router. Yes, Ibiquiti, yadda yadda yadda.....
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    How many devices?

    Not intended as a peeing contest, but genuinely wondering what the average house (OK, it's here so the average sparkies house...) has in terms of connected LAN/Wifi devices. I've just been messing about with ours (no thanks to Sky Business...) and counted up the active/recent devices on the...
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    2024 + 2025 TV and Movies Thread

    Don't really watch TV. The Aussie will come in from work and watch re-runs of NCIS for the 20th time whilst I make supper and then we'll fire up a Netflix/Prime something for a couple of hours. I even ditched the Sky box a couple of months ago as it was doing absolutely nothing that the smart...
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    Advice for apprentice

    OK, so.. Firstly the tables in the OSG and BS7671 are there to make our lives easier by having done most of the commonly found maths already - they don't replace actually applying the various formulas and equations which can often give slightly different results. Secondly, we build what we...
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    In what electrician role could this person be most useful?

    It's a very broad industry now, with a lot of different routes to entry - so I'd be interested to hear the views of others - but generally speaking there's two routes - either apprenticeship (which at an 'everyday sparky level' will invariably involve lots of aspects that may not appeal to...
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    20A conduit as cpc testing

    I trained on late 15th but lost all my old books in a house flood about fifteen years ago, I can't ever remember seeing it written but do remember the older generation sparks doing it so maybe it was an assumed thing that never was (like so much!). I then skipped commercial work for twenty odd...
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    20A conduit as cpc testing

    This would be installation, not portable. Unless you've made an electric powered javelin? 🤔

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