hello just doing my first s plan not much experience in central heating controls.the system is a vailiant boiler, vailiant cylinder. 2 x 2 port zone valves, a danfoss 2 channel programmer,and a danfoss electronic room stat. i have just 1st fixed and 2nd fix monday morning.happy with the...
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I need to locate a new consumer unit approx 10 to 12 metres away from the mains supply. The existing old unit is less than 50cm from the supply.
My initial thought is to replace the existing old unit with a small unit housing just a 100A double pole isolator switch and run tails from this...
I`ve re-wired a house and was going to keep it as a TT system. The house is in the country and this is what they had before I re-wired. The electrician testing and signing of the installation said the main earth can be connected at the neutral in the head? Where would I connect this up? Or...
Been to look at a job that has been first fixed and needs second fixing ( Builder gone bust)
The chap has wired for Sky or wants to. Outside at the place where there will be a dish is 2 co axials
a point in the kitchen for a tv with 2 co axials a main point for a tv in the lounge where i...
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Does anyone know if it's possible to connect a pair of bathroom wall lights - the type with an integral pull cord for switching the light on and off - so that the pull cord on one fixture will control both fixtures? I'd like to have this type of setup so I don't need to have 2 pull...
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im building a garden shed andd want to put power to it. I want to do it myself and will be including it in my building notice for the labc to check.
I will be using 6mm 3-core swa which will be about 50m from the consumer unit, but I have some 6mm t&e able already from the consumer...
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I've found a power supply circuit called TB008 that doesn't use a transformer and connects Ground and Neutral together. Now first of all, I'm no electrician, but everyone I've asked seems to think this is odd. Can anyone confirm?
From reading around it seems like the Neutral and Earth...
everytime i connect my computer to electricity it makes a spark ,why?
actualy i have a cord an when i plug the second thing in , it makes the spark .
The secod thing is the monitor or the computer.
Is this bad for my computer or for the monitor?
Apologies if this is not the right place for this post.
New build extension with electric Warm Up brand underfloor heating in 1 room; about 6m which I think is only about 750w. Electrician connected temporarily via an 13A fused switch (there is also a circuit breaker on consumer unit). There...
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I have a few questions and would like your opinion and advice on please, recently housed local to us have had a power outage for 30hrs, and this got me thinking (dangerous I know) about using a generator to feed essencial circuits.
The house supply is TN-C-S
Crabtree Starbreaker...
Hi all - just wondering if I could get some advice.
I have installed 3 new circuits in an extension - a kitchen - lighting, ring main and cooker (gas so just 13A elec start). The existing board only contains MCB's, and my new circuits need to comply with 17th edition regs, so need RCD...
Can anyone explain why on a split board (RCD+NON RCD) That the RCD neutral has its own neutral bar? When in fact if you were to follow the neutral cable, they all go back to the same source anyway??:confused:
Picture lighting help for above dartboard. Connecting a plug
Hello all , iv just joined the forum & was hoping to get some help on wiring up a picture light, hopefully after a while ill be able to give something back to the forum :). Anyway im putting a Picture light above my dartboard,ill not...
I dont have much experiance with heating systems at all, So new to me.
Been to a job where a plumber has fitted a new boiler.
This is a link to the exact boiler and its connections... CLICK HERE http://www.biasi.co.uk/pdf/Riva_Compact_HE/USER___INSTALLATION/3505_EDITION.pdf
I Have a 5...
hey, i've just changed an old fuse board! i had to change the mains cable as it was too small, so when reconneting it there was no earth terminal on the meter! i have a cable going to an earth rod! but someone told me i should connect my mains earth in the meter with my mains nuteral, he called...
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