hello all, i would be grateful for some advice or pointing in the right direction from someone more knowledgeable and experienced than my not long out of college self.
on a new build, before i had knew what the kitchen appliance specs were, i installed a 10mm cable from board, through cooker...
Remember when we found out that we'd paid over 2 grand to clean an MPs moat? Remember how they tried to cover it up?
Well there are new proposals being put forward by IPSA to hide the fact that MPs claims are being investigated for irregularities. Now correct me if I'm wrong but these people...
1st day back at work today after a long lay off nothing much to do so the internet beckoned. I decided to have a look at Amd 3 and was amazed at some of the disinformation coming from some of the Distribution board manufacturers, I read and printed off a copy of amd3 from the IET and it clearly...
Hello.After my last posts about wiring of the two caps on my metal buffing/pollishing machine its been working great doing sterling service nearly every day or a few hours on an off per day..until yesterday when I noticed it felt slightly underpowered.no overheating or burning smells...(just...
So if you could vote what would you vote ?
And what do you think the outcome will be ?
I am inclined to vote yes by about 5% but I think it will be a no result
Just wired 85m x 4core 16mm swa on tray arkward run took all day getting it in, anyway came to terminate it and found several steel wire strands missing from within the swa -
The cable does not give 360 mechanical protection and I now have to work out if my earthing is adequate or whether I've...
Heartd a blinder last night,a friend of mine owns a yard with a couple of buildings on it on a large industrial estate in Liverpool.Well last week he gets a visit from somebody from the council who was checking on sites in the area,She spots an armoured cable suspended between 2 buildings on a...
it was only yesterday we went croc.jumping.on a river cruise for a.couple.hours.. makes you appreciate the stealth and power of these things.. this poor fella was fishing apparently. what u dont understand is why people fish and swim in these places when they have the highest density of...
Not quiet the same as the other recent threads i believe, ive been to look at a new extension that's been built, the mains is being moved from is current position which is on the current outside wall to the outside wall on the new extension, so the plan is to fit a new consumer unit to supply...
I'm going back into the educational system for Fire Alarms. Over these passed 3 years I've found myself installing more and more of them for other companies, just pulling in cables and terminating them, not designing or commissioning/testing them.
It is a section of our industry that I am very...
well its been a while since I've done one of these. 7.5KW load wiring request from company.
my intention
1. to split the consumer unit in the garage and provide its own RCD and type C MCB
2. SWA two core to the Hot tub location (50mtrs away)(will work out cable size to match Zs)
3. Earth rod...
TNS, Ze 4.35. Hmmmm. If in doubt don't. Measure it twice, cut it once. If in doubt, do it again. 0.68 that's better. Bad connection, my fault. But who else not in the know would have questioned it.
SORRY!!!...made spelling mistake, tried to correct, forum went nutts (my laptop more likly)...so re posting...
hi all, hope your all well and having a good weekend...
does anyone haave experiance of these gadgets,.....we have only touched on SWA at college, but i was told i did a very good...
Woke up today and saw that the robbers in government are trying to dramatically increase motoring fines! Now I've seen first hand the devastation caused by road traffic incidents,but firstly lets look at the facts,a marked volvo driving up and down the motorway or sat on an overbridge has a...
Hi All
I have never done or touched anything to do with home networking or office networking so I am pretty clueless. I am in the middle of doing an extension in my house and I am putting a new TV in I am wondering if now is the time to get involved with it.
My existing setup in my house is 1...
Looks like the government are fiddling again. Funding for domestic EV charging points, which should carry on until March 2015, may be pulled as soon as TWO WEEKS time. These people have absolutely zero idea of how a SME works. The domestic EV charging point scheme has attracted praise and...
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