Hi Just wondering if anyone can help me out. Is it possible to get 0.03 to 0.09 m amps on a clamp meter on copper water pipes when an appliance is plugged in and the unit attaches to hot water copper pipes via a metal braided hose? On 2 x units the first unit had external damage with messed...
Carried out an eicr and noticed x2 double sockets have reverse polarity that supply a frying machine at high level. (this was a return visit to correct the faults)
After correcting the reverse polarity on the two sockets i plugged the fryer back in and the circuit MCB tripped out and the...
Carried out an eicr and noticed x2 double sockets have reverse polarity that supply a frying machine at high level.
After correcting the reverse polarity on the two sockets i plugged the fryer back in and the circuit MCB tripped out and the appliance popped.
I am unable to open the fryer up as...
Hi all,
Quick question hope someone can shed some light on.
I have a single coil burner with the following labelled specifications;
1000 Watt
220/230v
50/60hz
It comes fitted with a 13 amp fuse, but after reading a short bit about fuses I got the impression it might be too high.
The...
My wife is planning to have a dog grooming business in a spare room in our house. It is 2.6m x 2.8m. It will have a dog bath in one corner with an electric shower fitted to the wall nearby. Much like this...
I know if I have a shower in this room that I cannot have any socket outlets due to...
Hi all. I have an appliance with the following rating (see attached)
Is it ok to have this run through a standard UK 13A plug? It works but does get rather hot. Any suggestions will be great, thanks!
Hello, Firstly I am NOT an electrician and have no intention of messing with that stuff however, my sockets' RCD kept tripping, but by a process of elimination it turn out that whenever the pond pump is powered it trips again after about 5 minutes.
I have tried all permutations of appliances...
Just wondering if anyone can help.
I'm just moving a TV from one room to another. Upon looking for the plug at the back of the TV to unplug, I saw the power cable from the TV was wired into a white manual switch, which in turn was then wired into a 13A fused switch (see pics attached).
I got a...
Hello everyone, I hope this is the correct forum to post this. I am an amateur tinkerer with no formal training in electrical engineering and I’m just looking for some information and advice on how to safely wire up and use some appliances.
I have recently bought a hobbyist TIG inverter welder...
Hi all,
I think I'm posting this in the right place - apologies if not. I'm wondering if I could ask for a bit of help here.
I'm renovating a house for myself to live in, and I've spoken to an electrician this week to have it fully rewired. There appears to be a problem though with my planned...
I want a Breville Smart Oven Air: the Smart Oven Air® - https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/ovens/bov900.html
But they only seem to be available from countries which use 110-120V. It's 1800W.
Is the only option a huge transformer, and if so what specification would I need? And would...
I will be redoing my kitchen (new cabinets, new appliances, and complete re-wire) and I'm trying to work out the best way of doing switches for built in appliances.
I planning to have three appliances (not including the ovens and hob). These will be a warming draw, vacuum draw and extractor...
Just come back from an interesting fault.
Typical RCD tripping randomly. The customer was not using anything in particular, at any time.
Anyway I carried out Insulation Resistance on every circuit, each circuit was above 200M L-E and N-E and the
RCD tests were good.
The place was rewired in...
Hello All,
I hope that this recommendation does not break any Forum Rules:
I was looking through my previous posts and I saw one where I recommended this UK White Goods Forum to a Member who had asked a question about an Appliance malfunction code.
I know from previously reading some of the...
Thoughts please... probably heard it all before ;-)
At some point I will be having a new kitchen fitted and I am going to be carrying out all the electrical works and any advice on the modern wiring methods of today would be appreciated.
I'm used to the old wiring methods, where it was about...
Currently On a new build and I wired the ring to a switch bank where I’m gonna have 4 switches switching those hood,fridge freezer,dishwasher and washing machine. From this I have ran a leg down to each socket behind the appliances. Now the kitchen fitter is kicking off that they shouldn’t be...
Hey guys got a switch that blew it's a ring circuit just for kitchen appliances, I've got fridge/freezer, cooker hood, washing machine and tumble dryer on the circuit, in the kitchen I've got a 2 gang switch which then has 2 separate sockets spiring off for the appliances. Now bearing in mind...
Hi
Has anyone used one of the Kewtech PAT adaptor boxes or got any views or experience of using it? I have a load of my own band/pa equipment to test such as amps and extensions leads etc, would this be up to the job?
PATADAPTER1 Portable appliance adaptor box | Kewtech -...
Hi All,
Advice needed, we had someone round to modify a tumble dryer but first had to do an earth loop test but when plugging in his tester it kept tripping the switch on the CU. We have had occassional nuisance tripping and have had to unplug some things before being able to reset this.
I have...
I have a question about plugs behind a freestanding washing machine and lack of disabled access to the plug/fuse. It's going to be a fitted kitchen and is currently bare walls with No integrated or hidden appliances just standard free standing appliances. In the case of the washing machine...
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