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  1. Dave Jenkins

    Anyone come across a wall filled with sand?

    Took a socket off an old house and sand poured out!
  2. M

    RCD trip across board

    I am a relatively newly qualified electrician and have completed a re-wire but come across a problem i dont understand. I have a dual board with a lighting and a power circuit on each side. On the right side the power and lighting is entirely stable, but whenever a load is applied to the...
  3. Spunkywads26

    Borrowed Neutral across Lighting Circuits

    I've go a situation where a property has 3 lighting circuits: Downstairs Ltg Upstairs Ltg Rear Downstairs Extension I've discovered that the landing light is fed via the ground floor lighting circuit but has a borrowed neutral from the upstairs circuit. I wanted to separate these on the...
  4. JOURNEYMAN

    Came across this yesterday

    Domestic supply to a first floor two bedroomed flat above a shop sharing the service head with another flat next door. I haven't been next door so don't know what or how the cable has been terminated but if it's anything like this ......
  5. F

    RCD Tripping Hell with high load

    Hi all. First time poster here with a hell of a lot less hair than I had 3 weeks ago now! so please be nice, I'll try and explain best I can. I am not a sparky but have some idea of electrics. I also own a multimeter. Short version. 100A, 30mA RCD trips INTERMITTENTLY on WYLEX 8 fuse board...
  6. I

    New here... and here is a an interesting DB I've come across... need some help with EICR for it!

    Hello, I've got a question that I thought I throw out to the crowd and see what comes back... I am a little stuck with a recent EICR that followed a change of occupier. The home is 30 ish years old and has been extended several times. It is a fairly large home with swimming pool, multiple...
  7. Pete999

    Pete's Videos Aye up Guys new tester from across the pond

    And you can make it yourself
  8. Pete999

    RCD / GFCI testing from across the pond

  9. Leesparkykent

    Texecom premier elite compatibility

    Doing an unoccupied rewire on a house for a builder and part of that was running the cables in for a intruder alarm. finished of the snagging today and the customer has asked if I would mind fitting the alarm as they've been let down by the person who was supposed to do it. I had a look at the...
  10. Pete999

    Buying a quote

    Hi Folks, don't know if I have this information right or not, hence my question. My Lad (Camerabloke) paid a visit today, and showed me something interesting. Someone on the net posted a "buy a quote" thread, it seems this thread or post whatever you want to call it, not to sure where it came...
  11. haptism

    British Gas Meter Bonding

    Just been looking at a family members house and electrics; about 2 years ago the Gas Board moved their meter from under the stairs to a box outside. Anyhow they have not run any bonding to the meters new position and have bonded onto a gas pipe not far the original meter position, which is where...
  12. J

    Using powerline homeplugs across separate circuits

    I have just bought an Innuos music server not realising it has no built in Wi-fi capability, but needs an ethernet wired connection to the router. This could be done only by placing it in the cupboard where the router lives, whereas I wanted to place it alongside my Naim streamer upstairs. So...
  13. A

    Powerline network adapters across distribution boards

    Hi all, First off, I apologise for my ignorance and I am certain I will say many stupid things and use the wrong terminology! I work at a Holiday park that is quite large. We have a few toilet blocks that are out the way, but we would like to get the internet down there. The distance is too...
  14. Midwest

    Another flashing LED story

    Did a kitchen refurb' a few weeks ago. One of the things the client wanted was under cabinet lighting. As the lighting circuit did not have an RCD, I powered the light from 2 x FCU's. The uc lighting was supplied by the kitchen manufacturer. One FCU supplies 2 x led drivers (12v), with 2 x led...
  15. E

    Why is there 8 volts across the main switch when the mech n/storage timer is off?

    I have a mechanical timer switch controlling the night storage radiators. My multimeter can read AC volts but not amps. The mechanical timer switch is showing off at the moment, however:- When I put the multimeter across the supply with the consumer unit main switch on it registers about 8...
  16. hwads

    Cert with working across it

    Hi, I have just received (emailed) a minor works certificate with the word "working" across it, Its a Napit Cert and the work was only minor, just wondered about the word "working" is this normal as previous certs had nothing across them. Thank you
  17. H

    Anyone come across this!

    Hi, was doing some testing today and disconnected the wrong earth, but I got a shock, so I tested it to the met and got 121v, it was the lighting circuit! When I turned the mcb for the lights off, it disappeared.. I haven't investigated it as it is a council flat and they are responsible for...
  18. R

    Came across this today

    Not sure if picture has uploaded. I opened up the main incoming box on outside wall to find the tails had been split in a Henly block and into an enclosure with a 100A main switch in it. Out of this there was an armored cable out to a separate building in the garden with a 5-5 split board. The...
  19. M

    Came across this today

    Thoughts on this ??
  20. P

    controller or led code for the new integrated IC--sk6822 led

    Hi everyone, I have got a new integrated digital rgb led strip,it seems a very good led,for it has the capability of automatic across the bad point, there is no need to repair the light, the signal can continue to transmission. but I do not how to make it work with the arduino,some people...

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