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    Question: how to re direct energy from the PV to avoid losses

    HelloI am writing from Chile with a question about PV, our company normally installs modules in houses, but we are starting with buildings, there is a Policy here called "net billing", that is we can sell the PV energy surpluses to the grid, but at a smaller price than the grid sell the energy...
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    Rcd protection on adding 1 light

    Just a quick one. I have added an LED floodlight off an existing light on an outside wall and the circuit is not rcd protected. Do I need to fit an rcbo on the circuit or not. The cable is clipped direct through a loft space.
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    Lighting PIR's

    Can anyone recommend any decent quality, external stand alone lighting PIR's to Switch LED floods, ive used a Hispec one and it's pretty awful, about a 2 metre range at best. Cheers
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    Armourd cable clipped direct will the sun uv affect the cable

    Hi all i have a customer that wants a supply to an outbuilding clipped direct to a brick wall looks to be the best route but the cable will be in full sun will this have much of an affect to the cable advice please
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    Metal plasterboard back boxes...

    Does anyone know if metal plasterboard back boxes are available anywhere and if so where, ...link please?? I've done a bit of searching on UK based wholesalers but haven't found anything as yet, they all seem to be based around plastic with cable only entries. I need around a couple of dozen 2...
  6. M

    direct fixing tool Hilti or Spit

    hello all anyone used any of these have job with concrete ceilings looking at buying one? #fixings for conduit ect
  7. haptism

    Anyone ever worked direct for NHS

    Hi, ive got a possible job as a "electrical assistant" working direct for the NHS. I know the pay wont be great but Im hoping the scope of work there might be enough for me to complete a NVQ3. I was (before this possible job) going to get a mate job and complete the NVQ that way; so anyhow I...
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    Setting thermal overloads three phase direct on line motor

    Hi all can anyone give me there thoughts on setting of thermal overloads. I have heard all types such as set them at 110% of FLA. Set them 125% of FLA. Set them at 100% of FLA. Get running current and set them 10% above this. But I have heard a lot set them at 110% to avoid nuse tripping...
  9. jengo22

    Control gear direct rcbo

    My suppliers are pushing there rcbo £14.00 anybody used them are they ok
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    Direct employee tax return

    I am directly employed by a company and have done a tax return for the last 4 years to claim my mileage. I regularly hear stories about people getting twice as much money back as I do by getting an accountant to do their return rather than doing it themselves like I do. Is anybody else...
  11. Simonslimline

    Direct online starter

    I am building a test rig so i can show a friend who may do an electrical course at college how to test/fault find on some final circuits including a motor circuit, i have salvaged a motor out of a friends old washing machine and fixed a terminal box to it with all the connections coming in to...
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    Working direct and I haven't been paid, need advice.

    Hi all, I recently worked direct for a small electrical contractor, I still haven't been paid after nearly 2 months and I don't know what to do. I am having trouble finding out what I can do legally on the net. Does anyone have any advice? Cheers Jay
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    Nice tidy job

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    Cooker. supplieed via a switch direct.

    Hi all 6mm Cable runs from Fuseboard into a 45amp DP swith for the cooker. (Cooker load is 7kw) Can the cable run directly from the switch into the cooker or does it have to go from the switch to a cooker connection unit and then a cable from the ccu to the cooker? I cannot see anything in the...
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    Cheeky builder tapping up my staff

    one of the building companies i work with reasonably regularly has just been taken over by the son, i got on with the dad like clockwork and was a pleasure working for him, but his son is now trying to screw me down on prices for the big jobs hes pricing and on smaller jobs he has been calling...
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    B type rcd's do you fit them ?

    I haven't come across many type b rcd's are they widely used yet ? Getting a new megger 1720 or 1730 the more expensive one (1730) States it tests them but the other does not Is it worth the extra cash ? I know the 1730 has Bluetooth and the earth electrode kit but I won't use them so it would...
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    Appliances Direct

    So a brief summary, we ordered a new cooker 5 weeks ago for the house we are doing up and are about to move into. 3 days before the delivery date, Appliances Direct rang up to say the manufacturer, Rangemaster, had shipped the wrong kit and we would need to wait a further 4 to 5 weeks. No...
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    New boiler installation

    Evening everyone this is my first post on the forum, would just like your opinions and any experience you've had with this situation, I was called by a friend of mine this evening who has just had a boiler installed on one of the new schemes that seem to be everywhere at the moment, he told me...
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    working abroad

    Got heads up on work in Finland going next year. 18 days on 12 hr shifts, flights digs and 20 a day food included. £180 a day mates, £260 sparks tax free. Project is five years long and running now but winding down for Xmas. Not been myself but two lads on site just came back and loved it. Bit...
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    trade direct insurance

    I'm registered with benchmark, last year they contacted me to say I had to buy insurance to cover my work against faults for 6 years in case I was unable to work went bust or retired etc, I tried to say it was a load of crap but they insisted it was a government essential and they couldn't renew...

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