Just curious as to if anyone has any experience of these systems that are on the market now for basically distributing broadband network around house using existing power wiring, I've seen some that just plug in and others that you can actually change the faceplate on, someone's asked me about...
new installation, RCBO on one socket ring tripping intermittantly, can last 20mins to 1 hour. not worried, I will find the problem just wondering where the rest of you would start
Hello,
I would begrateful for some advice.
I have recently moved into a property which has two detached outbuildings, one used as a garage and the other as a workshop, no heavy machinery just the run of the mill drills and saw.
The outbuildings are connected to the house in this manner;
From...
not done much about 3 phase transformers so have a few things i am stuck on...
what is meant by the terms vector group 1, 2, 3, 4,
and what can these transformers be used for:
Star/Star
Delta/Delta
Star/Delta
I recently had a gas safety engineer inspect our appliances to which end he had to pull the electric oven unit from its cupboard housing to reach the underside of the gas hob.
As he did this I noticed that I have 2 double plugs connected directly to the cooker electrics. (I'm not an...
Hi all how do I test for zs on lighting and where do I do it I know the R1R2plus ze but I can plug my tester in and do it on a ring . So how can I do with tester on lighting prob s dumb question but thank you
I swear to god there was a reg specifying that all single core connections had to be doubled over? i can't find it anywhere
have i just had a weird dream?
Evening chaps
I'm just after some advice really!
My apprentice has snapped off the thread for V1 in the motor connection box, the motor is wired in Delta. Would it be ok to put L2 and both the motor leads on to U2? Only reason i ask is because they are linked anyway and can't seem to find a...
Hello,
I'm not an electrician and I'd be really grateful if one of you pros could help me out:
I recently moved from a property that I was renting. When I first moved in to this property 4 years ago I noticed that my halogen downlights were failing to work after as short a period as 1 or 2...
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Joining a looped neutral in a plaster mounted lighting switch box.
Back in my sad old day... we used plastic connector blocks, which I seem to remember were binned a while back.
What are people using these days?
I watched the sparky on a site the other week crimping all his connections...
Hi,
I have just tested an existing ringmain starting with the line conductor reading 0.32 and the neutral reading 0.87, these are both in 2.5 twin and earth, can someone explain why there is a big difference in the 2 readings when the conductors are the same size?
Had an interesting session today with the above, ofgem ENA and the Senior network planners or those in charge of Distributed Generation (DG) from WPD, Scottish Power, SSE, UKPowerNetworks and Northern Powergrid
They all know that they have had a bad reputation for dealing with Distributed...
Anyone know where I can get the metal cuffs to go inside a MC4 male connector?
I have 90 of the plastic bits but am missing 60 of the metal connectors - any ideas?
Fuse blew in a shower circuit last night, the guy said the fuse was roasting and stuck to the fuse carrier . It's an 8.5 kw shower on 30A fuse.
i poped new fuse in and stuck clamp meter on and was pulling 28A
isit normal for the fuse to get roasting in 5 mins
Does anybody know where I can find generic torque settings for M16 brass connection.
We are connecting to a Weg motor. Have tried the manufactures but had no reply yet, we have two guys waiting to connect....
Cheers
This one baffled me
Complete ring continuity on each conductor L-L ,N-N,E-E
IR - N-E : 0.00 Mohm @ 500 Vdc
split ring in middle - 50.3 Mohm on one side of ring
- 30.2 Mohm on other side !!!!!
the fault disapears on both sides when i split it ! HUH ...
Hi, just been over the road to look at a neighbours cooker not working, font the neutral in the cooker control unit burnt, load side, most likely caused by loose terminal as the others wasn't very tight.
but how come it seems to be normally the neutral connection that burns first, ie shower pull...
I got a Dewalt 24v battery SDS drill cheap today with no batteries. I am planning to use sealed lead acid batteries mounted separate to the drill attached with a coiled cable with it.
Does anyone know the pin-out of the batteries?
Thanks.
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