Changing a CU plus many other jobs for a customer.
Testing the circuits before the CU change and found the oven connected to the cooker circuit in a JB behind a base unit, the JB screwed to the wall and only accessible by removing the base unit as there is no access from inside the base unit...
Recently started in a new job where company is very safety orientated, all machines have key exchange entry systems and every one has their own lockoff padlock.
Talking to my supervisor (mechanical background) today and telling him about the correct safe isolation proceedure using voltage...
Hi can anyone help please. I have installed a 1.75 kW system with a Solar river 1600 TL inverter. It worked fine until a recent SSE cable failure in road. Since then I get an isolation fault on inverter. I have tested each panel which give ICS and voltage as you would expect and carried out...
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I need to move an existing combined cooker switch/ 13 A socket in a new kitchen, as the hob will be directly below the existing location.
There is not enough 6mm cable to allow me to move it around 50cm to the left of existing position.
To avoid replacing the whole 6mm cable, one...
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just look for some advise, getting new kitchen fitted in a couple of weeks. new oven is a 3.5kw 16amp, cable installed in wall is 6mm, should this be ok or do i have to change it to 10mm.
The isolation switch is in a 2 gang drywall box but takes 2 1 gang switches, one is a fused stur...
Hi am I right in thinking there used to be a reg that stated the isolation switch for a shower in a domestic premises, should be positioned OUTSIDE the bathroom, if so is that still in force, or is it another that just disappeared into the ether.
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If I'm fitting a ceiling fan in the bedroom off the lighting circuit then do I need any more isolation than switching off the lighting circuit at the fuse box?
One set of instructions telling me I need a double pole isolator which I could understand in a bathroom or commercial but seems...
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Can i put a fan isolation switch in a bathroom 2m from the bath and sink and above the height of the door. I should look it up but i thought i would ask you guys
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Here's one for you. In a foster home for naughty boys the client has a requirement to be able to "remove privileges" of TVs/PCs etc when necessary. They seek a means of doing this without having to get staff to use the Distribution Board. Would a DP switch of the correct capacity be the best...
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As on many occasions doing my electric shower repair rounds, I came across a faulty DP 40a pull cord shower isolation switch.
Why it is I always get a reading of about 70v between L-N load side when these switches fail.
It's always puzzled me why not 120v or 180v......nope always...
I'm a little stuck on the different types of safe isolation procedures
the questions I've been asked are as follows
demonstration of the full, safe isolation procedure required in order to carry out electrical work/maintenance to items of electrical equipment
a) single phase circuit
b)...
What equipment is required to carry out safe isolation of a distribution board. The board in a hotel lobby open to the public aswell...
Any help would be much a appreciated
called out to shut off the power in a recently vacated industrial unit today. unit been empty 3 days and the thieves have already been in.
This what i found at the main panel board, these cables are still live!
hi every one i got some safe isolation homework that i am just not sure about
here is the question's:
1)State the implications of not carrying out safe isolation procedure for:
a) You
b) Other personnel
c) Customer and clients
d) Public
e) Building management systems
2)...
Hi every one though i would post this as i have my safe isolation this week at college and thought i would type it up to refresh my memory hope it helps any one.
Safe Isolation (Single)
1) ask permission to isolate board/circuit
2) Isolate board/circuit
3) Lock off board/circuit and...
Today I turn up to a job to wire a kitchen, However before I start the guy shows me this cable coming from a wall after moving a tv unit..
He said he knows its "alive as he touched it and got a shock. Had the plaster in and was concerned that he might touch it so wrote on the wall...
Got sent today to sunny Paris to do an isolation and came up against this. Needless to say I wasn't touching it lol so a day wasted in the bar until the train out of here.
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