I have a job where SEC are moving the mains cable for the property to allow for change of use of the area. This means that the tails from the new meter box will be through a wall and over 3 mts long. Therefore a Switch fuse /isolator will be required in the new meter box. Does it require the...
I appreciate this is a common situation when replacing a C/U and providng the C/U is not on display as such I have usually just added a junction box in the past to extend the circuit. Where there is sufficent space to extend a circuit inside a C/U I can't see any problem with using a wago...
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We have a customer who has 2 x 50 kWp solar arrays (one with SMA inverters; the other Delta) with a 50 kW export limit.
He currently has a Cluster Controller / Energy Meter set up and working fine to limit one of his 50 kWp arrays (SMA) to zero export.
The customer would now like to move...
HI all,
We have a customer who has 2 x 50 kWp solar arrays (one with SMA inverters; the other Delta) with a 50 kW export limit.
He currently has a Cluster Controller / Energy Meter set up and working fine to limit one of his 50 kWp arrays (SMA) to zero export.
The customer would now like to...
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I am a competent DIYer and have fiddled with elecritics, but not massively confident. However, extending a ring, in of itself, looks fairly easy.
I am adjusting a wall between two of my bedrooms. The wall is actually a built in wardrobe, which I am removing, with a view to giving some of...
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i have a bit of work to do for a friend at some point in the near future.
i'm a bit concerned (not looked) that the cables might be a bit short to do what is required.
what is the best method of sorting this issue out ?
just want to be prepared for the worst
e.g. as it is to be enclosed...
I went to look at a job the other day for a customer to install a Hot Tub supply in the garden. Whilst there I found that an 'electrician' in the past had extended all the cables down from where an old wired fuse board used to be located to an RCD protected CU.
It was basically a bodge where...
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Can you still add an array to an existing system? We have a client that wishes to add 12kw to a 50kw array. G59 is ok but I'm sure I heard something about how it changes the fit rate of the existing install, is this correct?
Thanks
I was wondering if the maintenance free requirements (MF) are the same with communication cable as with low voltage supplies? I can't see why they wouldn't be.
The junction boxes for cat 5 cable or telephone cable where you just use the insertion tool have no screws that could come loose but I...
So you can spur off Spurs on a radial socket circuit, is this because the cable is protected via a 20amp breaker at the board compared to 32amp on a ring?
What do people tend to use as a connector when extending the ring, and the terminations are carried out in a knock out box? Push in wagos are rated at 24A, or the lever type at 32A.
I think (please correct me) 2.5mm enclosed in plaster (ref method C) has a CCC of 27A, so the push in wago would...
Hello All,
A friend of mine wants me to put lighting into his attached garage,
He wants 2 fluorescent tube lights (28W) putting in.
I have passed my domestic installer course and 17th edition course last year and I'm Part-P registered.
(I'm currently waiting to register with NAPIT and to be...
Hi all,
I have a few questions regarding the loft conversion I’m doing at the moment:
Is it okay to extend the first floor lighting circuit up into the loft? It’s separate from the downstairs circuit and currently has 5 lamps on it. It would be extended by five, two sets of recessed...
I have a wall panel heater with a 13amp plug and I want to extend the cable without having to take the heater apart.
Is it safe to extend this with the exact same cable and if so can this be done with a connector strip in a choc box or using a 20A round junction box?
I was going to just add on to Voltz's thread but it seemed to come to a natural end but I had some questions.
1. A few experienced members say that you should not extend the (equipotential zone) EPZ of a PME system. Am I right in thinking that this is because of the possible potential between...
I'm about to rebuild a stud wall at the back of my kitchen prior to ripping the existing kitchen out and installing a new one. the light switch for the room at the back of the kitchen is in a really inconvenient place, and I'd like to move it and put it in the new stud wall.
What I want to know...
Guy's can you confirm that if I extend an existing ring main for (one socket) the existing circuit has no RCD protection I can do so without adding RCD protection
Just after a general consensus.
Do you guys extend cables for the purpose of neatness, even though its a potential weak point or do you accept a shorter cable and accept that its a not as neat?
Regards
Two part question: Existing 16mm tails are over 6m in length from meter. They are encased in 32mm steel conduit running through a concrete floor and vertically up a block wall right upto the consumer unit. There is no place to install a de-rated switch fuse for isolation or protection. Is it...
Hello Guys. I have currently got a client with an existing hard wired network to various rooms in her house, it's a very large town house in Clapham, probably about 5 bedrooms. She currently has all the Cat 5 wires to a single locations, just dangling out of the wall with no connections, but...
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