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  1. H

    WANTED: Meter Calibration NE

    Best place to get meter calibrated NE (Durham/Newcastle) - any thoughts? It's Metrel if that makes any difference.
  2. J

    Thinking of ditching niceic

    I've been thinking of ditching NICEIC but I'm just not 100% sure if its the right thing to to .. I've been an approved contractor for around 8 years and when I joined I was doing a lot of work for builders who required a scheme registered contractor to do their electrical work.. Nowadays my...
  3. D

    TT systems and RCBO's

    Why are standard single pole RCBO's not advised for a TT system? Sure I've seen this somewhere....something to do with not disconnecting the N with a N-E fault potentially allowing a fault current to continue to divert to earth from the neutral.. But then a SP RCBO, or MCB on a TN system would...
  4. A

    EAL 4337/38 or C+G 2394/95

    Hi, I've got my JIB gold installation electrician card. After obtaining my 2357 NVQ, 2382-15 and my part p course. I want to go one better and get my approved electrician card. According to JIB they accept both EAL 4337/4338 and C+G 2394/2395. They are roughly the same price to do but the EAL...
  5. uksparks

    Air Tools For Sale

    Hi, I have owned all these from new and looked after them as best you can whilst using them, they have all had very little use. I was going to use them to do a car up, but it never happened, so they have just been used for the odd little job. The ratchets have been used perhaps 3 times, the die...
  6. E

    Is it safe to leave a convector heater, auto overheating cut-out, on 24/7 unattended?

    Many of my items have failed recently and as my gas central heating boiler is 20 years old, I am concerned about that failing too, although it works perfectly at the moment. I occasionally go away for a week and in addition to leaving the gas central heating on at a low temperature, I am...
  7. C

    Sunbed shop. Breaker keeps tripping! HELP?!

    Hi there, I run a small sunbed shop with 2 sunbeds. (please bare with me as I'm not very electrically minded) I have a problem with my sunbed tripping out. I have 2 sunbeds running off one board (Single phase). The board product number is QFS-MB7 and the main switch is rated as 100A. I used to...
  8. G

    Focus 2006 MK2 - Fault Codes

    Hi all, My car (Focus 1.6 TDCI 2006) broke down today due to sudden loss of power on throttle pedal. The car runs and drives perfect until the management light comes on and throttle pedal does nothing, car will only run at idle and this may last 2 minutes or may last an hour and will then...
  9. A

    Stabbed in the back by Elecsa........

    In the email 'Promoting your business' sent out by [email protected] yesterday (23/9/15), with Elecsa logos top and bottom, there is a link to the Landlords Pack which has been sent to 1150000 Landlords. The second question in the FAQ of the Landlords Pack (page17) asks: 'Who can...
  10. I

    Fixed Wire Testing

    Hi All I've been asked to tender for a fixed wire test for a hotel group here in Ireland. They sent me documentation to read through before I tender. The hotel group is UK based so therefore the regulations would also be British standard rather than the Irish standard I work to. I would assume...
  11. D

    Insurance

    Self Employed Electrician Insurance trying to start off, As you know my English isnt that great so LAWER talk and Insurance sadly i was in the hands of the insurance company. As when i tried to join a Governing body, i tried Napit and went with Napit Insurance, what has another name that is...
  12. B

    C&g 2394 & 2395

    Hi All, My company are sending me on the inspection and test course. I am not training to be an electrician (I am a design engineer) but have been requested to have these qualifications. I have 17th Edition and guidance note 3, do I need the on site guide too? Many thanks B.
  13. S

    A guide for an English sparky in New zealand.

    Thought I’d write a little on changing from being a UK spark to a NZ spark, after seeing the Australian thread. Kiwi licencing is ran by the EWRB (Electrical workers registration board) out of wellington. In order for them to assess your qualifications, you have to send them all copies of your...
  14. ian.settle1

    Australian GP

    Hamilton on pole from Rosberg by 1/2 second some going that, hope he doesn't have the same problem as last year.
  15. T

    Job vacancy

    http://www.indeed.co.uk/rc/clk?jk=9f2b9f46b04269f7 Ok it's in Sunderland but you can't have everything
  16. R

    Shower shocks !!!

    Hi guys, in need of some advice, this is my first time on here so be gentle..! I had a client call me to ask to look at a shower in one of his properties as the tennants are complaining of little shocks from the shower taps?? i immediately told them to isolate until i can have a look. Once i...
  17. Worcester

    Nin compliant Install by another installer and fraid by customer.

    So bitch moment or malpractice? We visited a potential client at the end of November and they were desperate to get a Biomass system installed before the end of December (10% reduction on 1st January 2015), as it was a listed building we pointed out the need for listed building consent that the...
  18. applemac

    fpv/ drone / arial photograry

    hi guys anyone into drones/quads? thinking of getting a dji vision. discuss
  19. J

    "Voltage Drop" Please help!

    Hi folks Iknow this topic has been beaten to death on this forum but after reading some of the posts and speaking to some of my co workers I am still a littleconfused, I am aware there is several ways of calculating voltage drop but amstill unsure of when to use the correction factor of 1.2 and...
  20. M

    110v power issues

    I work on a site that has a transformer which supplies 10 commando sockets at 100v. Recently, I have been unable to run 110v equipment, such as drills on these sockets. I have checked the transformer which is 110v from Live to Neutral and 58v Live to Earth; which is correct. I am also getting...

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