My old classic only has a one-speed wiper. I really would like to fit an intermittent device so that I can vary the time between wipes. I am fed up with reaching for the wiper switch when there is only very light rainfall.
Whilst at a steam rally recently, I picked up an old wiper dwell switch...
Been having an intermittent fault at home now for a few months. All RCBO board, wiring 3 years old.
Upstairs socket RCBO trips sometimes, maybe once or twice a week. Always seems to be when we turn something on, for example a light, cooker hood, oven etc. I'm thinking there's a dodgy appliance...
I had a quick job yesterday where the customer said he lost power to some kitchen sockets, I went round and he had an old wilex board with rewireable fuses. All the sockets in the house were on two 30A fuse wires. Most sockets in the kitchen were in a ring on 1 and the rest of the house must...
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Looking for some ideas of what is going on with our electricity. We had a carpenter who managed to drill into a mains cable (house was fully rewired only 2 months ago). He got an electrician out who crimped the broken wire in the wall . however, we are keeping on experiencing intermittent...
Hi guys, wondering if anyone's got suggestions for an intermittent fault.
Ground floor lighting circuit, Aprox 10 lights, mostly basic pendants occasionally trip 6A MCB.
Customer says it happens once every 2-3 weeks, no noticeable link to bad weather or time of day etc.
Also reports it...
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My parents have some 240v GU10 down lights installed in the bathroom which all independently suffer from intermittent flickering. They're all LED's but the same behavior can be observed when swapped out with halogens which leads me to believe there is probably a loose connection...
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I have an intermittent problem with my Veritas 8 system - the internal sounder goes off every now and then and the tamper light flashes red. I can reset it and the tamper light & sounder go off and the system functions normally for a while - sometimes for just minutes before the fault...
I've been having this recurring problem where the RCD will trip (the MCBs don't move) causing power failure on everything in house. I can get everything (apart from sockets) to come back on immediately only if the MCB that controls the sockets is flicked down before I flick the RCD switch back...
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This is my first time on here so please be kind :hurray:
I have a problem with a new house I wired last summer. The first 6 months all was fine, then all of a sudden the heat alarm in the kitchen started to beep intermittently. I have replaced the alarm twice and both smoke heads...
I was asked to look at an intermittent fault in a rental property yesterday:
Apparently over the last month or so, the tenants have several times heard a loud bang, that they think may be coming from the kitchen area of the house (but they are not sure, being elsewhere in the building each...
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I've been looking at a Vent Axia silent extract fan for a bathroom with shower.
The fan continuously runs and boosts when the light is switched on or via humidistat.
I was looking at the spec and the extraction rate is only 15 l/s which is the bare minimum for a small...
I've taken my Ford Focus 2003 to a number of garages, but none came to any conclusions about this. Few of them actually even managed to replicate the problem.
While driving, about a quarter of the time, the speedo shows zero even while moving. This also stops the distance counter from clocking...
Audi A6 – 2007
Since I bought the car 2.5 years ago at a main Audi dealership it’s had an intermittent battery drain which I’ve tried all sorts to trace. It’s getting steadily worse and none of the ‘standard’ techniques have traced it yet, mostly due to the intermittency of the fault. The...
Intermittent faults are the spawn of the devil. Their mission on earth is to torment electricians and confuse apprentices.
Just wanted to make that clear.
Morning.
Recently went to a job with what is a glorified shed, although fully insulated plastered, water tight etc, with a db installed within the unit. Small ring main and four down lights. The SWA supplying the 'shed' running back to the garage, on a 40a mcb protected by a 63a 30ma rcd...
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Just wondering if anyone has come across this before,
we got called to a intermittent fault at a new build the owners have been moved in around 8 months, the power would
trip mainly when all the lights were switch on and in the evening when switches were turned on, but sometimes...
I was called to a job Friday past,the lady of the house and her children are getting shock's from the kitchen sink. First thing I tested was the sink live, no normal. I then tested the earth which is TT and got a reading of 97 ohms I then tested the 10mm earth going to the water stopcock no...
I was going to post this in DIY but it appears locked for some reason, so here we are.
Downstairs bathroom light flickered and went out, the three fittings on this spur are now not working. (Due to various building works, three lights are on a spur from the garage ring, which is itself an...
I wonder if anyone has any ideas - my TV is driving me crackers!
Our TV is connected via a a DVD player / recorder to a signal booster box (which sits next to the TV) and then to a rooftop aerial, we watch freeview. For many months this has worked just fine.
A few weeks ago, I would...
Hi, Got a Glow-worm 18hxi boiler (6yrs old) with an intermittent fault.
Cuts out with F1 or F4 code message. Sometimes runs for several days with no problem, then cuts out once or twice same day. Regularly serviced by our local plumber (also fitted it) but he cannot find the problem. Had the...
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