As per the title, I have a digistat +RF which is losing its connection, it has until now worked fine for eight years, last week i decorated the office so the only difference is the colour of the paint I connect it and it runs fine during the day and then overnight when the time clock switches...
Hello, about 2 months ago I was working on a rewire for a large property, and we had to have the DNO come out to upgrade the supply.
Whilst we were chatting, I asked him what the black stuff was dripping from the cable down the wall and he told me that it's the old bitumen melting from a loose...
First of all hello I'm New to the forum :) I have a Diplomat hob it would seem separate from the oven For some reason after last night's cooking session it'd no longer powering up. At first I thought it may be a fuse so I've tried all of the fused switches by the oven to no avail. They all turn...
Hi, I have a 6 gang grid plate, which has switches for my Fridge, Freezer and Dishwasher, and each has there own connection point around the kitchen for the respective appliance. I am wanting to move the connection point for the fridge about 150cm, and lower the freezer one about 20cm, and...
Hi, I have a 6 gang grid plate, which has switches for my Fridge, Freezer and Dishwasher, and each has there own connection point around the kitchen for the respective appliance. I am wanting to move the connection point for the fridge about 150cm, and lower the freezer one about 20cm, and...
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Just wondered if anyone has any experience installing a spider lamp in a domestic premises?
First time I have came across one of these fittings, it has a single rose with nine separate 0.5mm flexes, max 40w lamp. Just wondered what the correct way is to connect all the cables together. I...
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just wondering what is the best way to earth my shed.
The shed is the full metal type which they sell at screwfix 8ft x 6ft
I've put a single light inside and one outside from fused connection units inside the shed, they run from another fcu which is a RCD FCU from my decking.
so...
Evening everyone..
I have just been experimenting with a cat5 wall plate on one end of the cat5 cable and an RJ45 on the other end.
The RJ45 connects to my router and the wallplate is situated in the office. I then connect a standard Ethernet cable (RJ45 on both ends) from the wall plate to...
hi i am replacing a consumer unit over and came across a strange problem with the neutrals when i isolated the old consumer unit. When isolated from supply im still getting 240v between incoming live and out going neutral. I have disconnected all neutrals from block (which clears it from...
Looking for some info here.
Recently I was on my friends boat, which has a 240 supply , through an inverter which you can run a micro wave , hair dryer etc, preferably of course if the engine is running.
It got me thinking, how do they achieve a path to earth on such systems?
What prevents ...
hi every body.
need to make connection of a schneider contactor LC1D40A with schneider RM17TG20 phase control relay.
need to how to wire between these two to make the relay will trip the contactor when single phasing happens in 3 phase system.
schematic diagram will difficult to understand...
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Maybe im over thinking this but need to connect a UPS system to a control panel, the problem is the ccts i want to connect to the UPS are split & all the neutrals are all connected to a single busbar connection unit at the moment which is all normal, but i need to connect a UPS to power...
I was having a look at my cu the other day and noticed that someone had connected a double socket (socket is situated just below the cu) straight off the mcb, which includes the wiring of the final ring.
I'm unsure if this conforms with regs etc
We do actually use it for the intruder alarm...
So I was doing my usual morning browse this morning, and I have no idea how but I ended up reading a load of threads from years ago about the Dual Appliance Connection Units - it left me with a question that I couldn't find an answer to within those threads, and not wanting to reopen a 3 year...
I have this boiler:
Ravenheat - CSI 85 combination boiler - atmospheric combustion - high efficiency boiler
~ If link does not show, google Ravenheat CSI 85 Combination Boiler - Atmospheric
The website says, under Technical Data, that the boiler is 3 amps.
My previous electrician...
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What method do you use for earthing armoured to armoured on a platic 3 phase rotary isolator? Assuming I will have one armoured on top of the isolator and one on the bottom.
At the moment I use the banjos and on the inside of the isolator using an m6 bolt I'll lug the earth cable and...
I'm stumped on this one. My mate has a two way garage board in his garage. Circuit 1 is lighting, circuit 2 is 3 sockets on a radial. Lighting works fine. Sockets trip main RCD in DB when switched on. 3 sockets are now disconnected. Tried to reset 16A MCB (for radial circuit) and still trips...
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