Hello, Looking for advice on how much to bill out of apprentice electrician on jobs. Do you have a % to add on to their rate to allow for expensies, PAYE, NI, Holiday pay etc?
Just taken deilvery of an Electric Car (Mini Electric) and so doing some research into installing a charge point.
Supply is a standard Single Phase and I have appointments booked with my supplier and DNO to upgrade meter tails and cutout fuse respectively.
I'll get a spark to do all the...
I have done around 16 or 17 quotes in the last few weeks , some small jobs where the quote was literally hourly rate + materials so took 20 mins to type up and email.
But the other day I did a massive detailed quote after spending over 2 hours with the customer at the site. Full re-wire of...
24VDC Battery Back up - with 2 x 12VDC - 100Ah Batteries - monitor and charge options.
2 x 100AH deep cycle batteries - wired in series.
Can I use 2 x 12vdc trickle chargers to keep them charge?
Can the 12vdc chargers be connected permanently while connected in series?
What can I use to...
I need to long term store a Acorn 130 stairlift carriage with internal batteries that is removed from the rail.
The carriage normally picks up electrical charge to the 2 x 13v sealed batteries via 2 x contacts normally acting on 2 x charging points on the rail; one at the rail top and the other...
Items i'm using for this battery pack:
1x ~ HX-3S-FL25A-A BMS Balance Charging Board
9x ~ 18650 (3000mAh, 15A Continuous Discharge)
12.6v 2A AC/DC Adapter
Renogy 24V 50Watt Solar Panel
Li-on 12-24V 50A Solar Charge Controller
ISDT 1S-8S Battery Monitor
So when my battery is about 12V, i can see...
I'm considering buying a home battery storage solution and read that with 3kWh feed you can only charge 12kW during the 4 hour Octopus Go off-peak window, which makes sense.
Is it the mains supply, battery or inverter that bottlenecks this 3kWh? I've read some batteries (or was it inverters?!)...
I have a 12 volt power supply unit with 15 percent up or down voltage selector so I can achieve little more than 14 volts current draw is 30 amps maximum. It has over volt safety thermal safety and short circuit protection. Powered by 120v ac. The question is if I added a fuse 30amp and...
Just wondered what you guys would charge be good to see the comparison
Fit new fused spur
Install wired programmer
Install wired HWC thermostat
Install wired room stat
Boiler earth bonding
Earth bond gas meter
Earth bond oil line
Remove old extract fan and replace. With new using...
Greetings everyone
I work at a company that sells chargers for electric vehicles and I’m working on the electrical projects.
The chargers I work with, are alternating current (AC) and the main mode here is a three-phase installation 220 V, at 7.04 kW with a current of 32 amps.
If the system...
Hi all, just a quick question, does anybody out there know if there is an editable version of the ENA form below.
EVCP & HP Connections Form v3.4
Or is it a case of fill in by hand and scan?
Thanks.
Hi,
To those who are already installing EV charge points, do you test as you would any other radial circuit, or do you have a specific EV point tester or EVSE adaptor for your MFT? what additional testing do these provide, and is using them in order to meet manufacturers instructions as I don't...
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Im doing work for a customer who has a few sites they want me to cover. I told them traveling time is at full rate. When talking to someone on site they said I should charge mileage on top of this. What sort of rate do any of you guys and girls charge for this. One site is close to home...
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Last week I invested in a new Megger MFT1741+ with the EV charge point adapter as I was installing a ProjectEV charge point on Thursday of last week.
Completed the install and just needed to carry out the live testing at the charge point, Zs done no issue, next comes the charge point...
Hello everyone,
Someone asked me to replace the tube lights with the LEDs (5 feet long). In total i got to change 20 of them and to rewire about 5 lights (10m length).
How much reasonable i should charge him.
Thanks
1. I have an Aldi Cordless Hedge Trimmer, powered by a 20 V Lithium-Ion battery. It is manifestly under-powered - jams frequently - and their tec support cannot offer any advice ("At that price what do you expect?"!!)
I see however that you can run the machine with an optional 40 V battery...
Afternoon all, and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but a search didn't bring anything up.
Just a quick heads up to anyone installing EV charge points (or other "non-standard" energy technologies);
I was confirming PL/PI cover with my insurer today (AXA) for evidence needed by my...
I lost this:
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I called BajaDesigns, they don't even have a manual for the light, directed me to another site they handed off these types of lights to which...
Looking for some candid advice.
Covid has left my industry in tatters, I'm an Airline pilot. I still have a job, just, but for how much longer? I'm keen to get ahead of being skint and jobless and retrain/refresh my knowledge etc.
Before pilot, I spent some time fitting kitchens and...
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