I don't tend to get involved in anything out of the ordinary with data cables as I don't fully understand how it all works. However, a builder friend has asked if I can connect up some ethernet sockets which is fine, but, he asked if he could have just one cable leaving his router which plugs...
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I am struggling to answer the question I am being asked daily. Once the 1st April deadline for the EICR reports to be completed what happens, Basically we have no appointments left now to complete them and many other electricians locally are also fully booked out so where does...
Supposing I fit a metal light fitting, and I do a terrible job - and the live comes out from the terminal screw and hits the fitting, but it's well earthed - current will flow through the earth cable (hopefully) providing a circuit with less resistance than if I touch it.
When this is happens...
I guess this might seem like an odd question, but what do the Part P notifications actually do?
That is, beyond the goal of stopping dodgy work by folk with little or no electrical knowledge, do building control use them for anything? Can you use them to check on past work on a property you are...
as some of you know my background is as an electrician in the RAF mainly working on 3 phase machines including generators. When it comes to meter calibration they are always done and any meter found to be out of calibration is quarantined until it’s been done.
My new employer seems much more...
Just come across this video on you tube on thomas nagy's feed, we often get people asking about joining a scheme - usually competent persons rather than approved contractor and this video might be useful for some of you wondering about what happens,
I am guessing the niceic jumped at the chance...
Hi all I've just installed like for like videx door entry but when I press call button nothing happens? It's all been wired like for like.communication works both ways but nothing happens when button is pushed? Could the receiver be the problem? It's the only thing I haven't replaced.tia
Well I never thought I would be back in the land of the sands but here i'am again. What is it about old sparks never die.
This is what happens when you let a digger driver loose near a sub station. He decides to go through a 240mm Aluminium concentric cable and take out half a dozen workshops...
Heating a phase under tension experiment.
I would like to know what happens exactly when apply heat to an insulated phase under tension . Even over the fusion temp of the insulated protection.
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Pictures show the 2 ends of a cable supplying a horse treadmill - panel and 32A plug.
Been working fine for 18 months, but the MCB tripped out recently, Probably because of the proximity of bare wires in the plug - although there was no charring marks found.
Story is that the guy who installed...
Hi all, I ve just bought a S/H megger CM500 tester, I can't get the insulation resistance test to work, I ve tried various different leads, checked the fuses, changed the batteries and it still won't work.
All that happens is you get 3 short beeps and the symbol of a little man/earth flashes in...
How do I start a new thread in the DIY section,everytime I click on the Thread Starter button it just takes me back to where I was,can somwone please help as I need info for tomorrow.
Went to change a light fitting today for a couple who'd just moved in to their new house. The fitting was rated at 2 x 60w. The lamps actually in the fitting were 2 x 70w.
I'm used to seeing ceiling-mounted fittings with a little heat damage, but this was scary. The timber it was mounted to...
I do this so you dont have to ;).
Sending 250amps through a 1mm approx 10amp rated flex...... down the earth core until it evaporated the copper.
You can see how the earth spirals in pic 2 as it burns and melts away all the insulation and sheath adjacent to it.... i expect it got a tad...
When filling in the Condition Report Schedule for Domestic with up to 100A, section 5.10 (Concealed cables installed in prescribed zones) Some one replied that is should be N/V. Does that mean that Further investigation is required? The reference Method is B as cables are concealed inside the...
Righto just a quick question.. I've been informed that a safety relay must be used for your estop circuit, but why can't you just use ladder logic to create your estop circuit? Does every one use a safety relay or does anyone use only a Plc logic for your safety circuit?
Thanks,
Dale..
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So i got to price a job, basically a garden centre wants an office in a summerhouse they only will have a few lights and power sockets! But when i arrive they have a length of 2.5mm T&E Ducted over 100m!! I try to tell them that they need to uprate it as the VD will be pretty high over that...
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