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    Socket outlets supplied via an emergency trip button

    I was wondering if any one has installed anything like what I have been asked to do. It is in a training enviroment and they would like approx 5 sockets installed allong a wall that can have the power switched off via an emergency trip button by the teacher if required. I was thinking a radial...
    • stever37
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    • aus button circuit contactor electricians' talk emergency outlets socket supplied trip wired
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Australia
  2. N

    Boost button on dual tarrif meter

    Hi I went to a clients property to look at why two of several storage heaters were not working. To establish if the power is getting to the heater I poked the boost button to power up the heaters and nothing happened. Am I daft or what?? This is what the boost button does ?? I'm not waiting...
    • Nairda
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    • aus boost button electricians' talk meter
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Australia
  3. E

    RCD type

    Came across the above RCD whilst working on a TT system. It had no indication of tripping currents on it. There was no main fuse so I need to record it's details including BS number. I tested it with a 30mA ramp test and it did not trip. So I fitted a 30 mA RCD to the shed supply I put in...
    • eckersecker
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    • aus before button electricians' talk rcd type
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Australia
  4. D

    rcd will not trip

    hi all, think i am have a blonde day today, went to do a fuse board change in some bedsits as the builders had been thrown off site (have covering letter from the local council to carry out works) basicallly all wires prepared at board but no board, so installed a 16th board and can't get the...
    • dcelectrical
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    • aus button correct electricians' talk meter rcd socket trip
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Australia
  5. M

    Stop button for a compressor, remote.

    Morning guys. May I have some guidance please. Basically the client has a motor vehicle workshop, which has students and teachers inside. On the car park there is a small compressor house with a three phase compressor in it. The back wall of the compressor house is the wall of the workshop (in...
  6. J

    rcbo

    testing a 40A rcbo on a shower today and got >400ms at x1 is the rcbo knackered i removed the load and tested it and it still did it, i dont want to get another 1 and it do the same thing. IR was >299Mohm Zs 0.16 Ze 0.11
  7. J

    trouble with newly installed MK c/u

    recently changed an old fuseboard to a new MK consumer unit with 2rcbo's and then RCD with 5 mcb's on it, now i IR all the circuits and all came out at <299Mohm but since day 1 the rcd has tripped whenever a high load is switched on? i tried the up and down ring and the fridge radial on 1 of the...
    • jenions
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    • aus before button circuits connected electricians' talk installed led newly removing trouble
    • Replies: 84
    • Forum: Australia
  8. S

    RCD won't trip

    Hi can anyone help. I have just done an extension to an annexe, using 3 core 1.5mm swa for the lighting and 4 core 2.5mm for the ring into a 2 way CED Garage Consumer Unit with a 63A 30mA RCD, 32A and 6A MCBs. Ze, Insulation resistance and continuity test came out fine testing with a Megger...
    • shovelhead
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    • aus button electricians' talk faulty insulation rcd testing trip won't
    • Replies: 35
    • Forum: Australia
  9. R

    One hourcentral heating timer for student let

    Can anyone advise me on this: 1. Student house tennants always going out and leaving the heating on (home for xmas - heating full blast!) 2. Gas CH from backboiler heats water and house controlled through normal programmer 3. I want to have hot water permanently on. 4. I want to have a "push...
    • rjmaycock
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    • boiler button electricians' talk heating house student through timer
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Central Heating Systems
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    Wrote nice long letter pressed button and it disappeared

    Wrote nice long letter pressed button and it disappeared no time left will do it again later.
    • boarg1
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    • button electricians' talk letter long
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: The Welcome Forum
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    Measuring earth loop imopedance Ze using FLUKE meter - settings??

    Guys (n' girls of course) I have just started using a 1653B FLUKE and when testing earth loop impedance Ze (ie. impedance of supply - tested at supply origin), I presume I use the 'LOOP IMPEDANCE' setting (line to protective Earth L-PE) using the Z1 Hi current setting, and NOT the 'Earth...
  12. S

    Panic button for soldering equipment

    Hi I do some electronics work. For safety sake I was wondering if there's a type of panic button I could use to cut off the supply off a socket which I'm going to install. It will be run off an existing double socket. Once this panic button is pressed the power should stay turned off until I...
    • swc
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    • aus button electricians' talk equipment
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Australia
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    RCD ramp test

    Hi, just tested a fuse board: 1*main switch lighting circuit lighting circuit smoke alarm circuit ----------------- 1*rcd Oven Sockets Sockets Sockets Security Alarm Water Heater ----------------- RCD failed 1x with ?400ms reading (megger MFT) performed the ramp test and the RCD tripped at...
  14. M

    rcd not tripping

    hi to all i need a bit of help as i dont normally deal with 3 phase i have come to carry out a periodic inspection and carried out a rcd test on varrious circuits and it wont trip at 1x test the system has a old mem d/b with a rcd as a main switch what would cause the rcd not to trip out...
  15. ringer

    What does the Facebook Connect button do?

    f Connect button at the top of the forum home page - what does that do? I clicked on it and it wants access to my profile on FB. Did 'do not allow' because I'm not sure what/why it is doing this.
  16. N

    Like button

    I have pressed the like button a few times , and have noticed it says that i like the comments with a love heart , yes i may well like it , and its getting closer to valentines day but a love heart , why not a pint of beer or kit kat chunky or coffee mug lol:rolleyes:
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    i like button

    i like this feature, and i'm fairly sure its new, if not i missed that one big time! :D but i do wonder if the heart is a bit much??? :rolleyes::rolleyes: i mean guys i like you but i'm not sure i want to "heart you" :rolleyes::rolleyes: danny
  18. D

    Fluke 1651

    Hi Chaps thinking of putting in for a part P scheme and seen a Fluke 1651 advertised for £180 out of calibration is it suitable? Decent how much does calibration cost and how long does it last?
  19. E

    Megger 1553 help

    replaced my battered 1552 with a 1553 and have noticed that when carrying out a continuity test , with leads open >999 with leads joined get a valid reading, when breaking leads open again the reading stays and wont return to >999 and this i find very annoying? any ideas anyone? the lock...
    • ezzzekiel
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    • bluetooth button circuit electricians' talk help leads megger reading
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Electrical Tools and Products
  20. C

    RCD Trip Time

    I think I know the answer to this one - but could do with some clarification. 30mA RCD trips out at 51.8mSec on 1 times test & 38.7 on 5x Test values seem high to me - Domestic installation. Repeated the test 3 times just to make sure. RCD probably 11 years old and, of course, never had the...
    • chloebear
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    • aus button electricians' talk rcd time times trip
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Australia
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