my name is Steve I am a maintenance manager at a plastic injection moulding company and have been doing the job for 25 years I started as a young apprentice technician in the late 70s and followed that with a 10 year spell in the REME now I deal mostly with service and inspection of plant...
Hi there,
Just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. I've been a Sparks since 1999 carrying out all different types of works. For the last 4 yrs I have been working on the DNO side of things, Live cable jointing,OHL's etc for all networks across the UK.
Hi, I'm David aka Wilko. I'm just starting out on electricians work in UK, having arrived here from Australia 10 years ago for an office based electrical engineering design job. I did an electrical apprenticeship in 1876 - no wait it was 1976 I think. I was employed by Govt and probably because...
Hello,
Good on to be hear.
I'm a former Part P spark, worked in the Solar industry, now working for a Tesla Motors (Electric car maker) as their installation manager for UK & Ireland.
hoping to connect with other electricians and elctric so engineers - in particular those either already...
Dear Everyone.
I myself am not an electrician, that's why I'm here.
I've got a Baby Belling style cooker that rather spectacularly blew its plug fuse a couple of days ago - took out the entire plug circuit. I've got the plug sockets working again, but now of course I have no cooker!
Is it...
Hi,
Hope you are all having a good Easter Bank holiday.
Saw this the other day and just wanted people's opinions/thoughts please. (I was there installing led floodlights to the front and rear gardens only).
6mm T&E coming from the C/U into and along the attached garage wall approx 8m run...
Went to look at at a job with a mate of mine who is a Sparky, it's in a Farm house more to the point it's in the Garden.
The owner has two garden offices an old one being demolished at a later date I'll call that shed 1 and next to it is his new shed called shed2, get the picture?
He has had...
I am a electrician who finds himself in need of a great deal more training in the field of industrial electrical troubleshooting. Although I have almost two and a half decades of experience in installing and wiring electrical equipment for heavy industry, I have vary little troubleshooting...
Evening, im a practising electrician and have been for 15 years.
I have started at a new company this week and after doing some research on line the company does not appear on any electrical competent persons scheme, the company is primarily a heating and plumbing company with gas safe and MCS...
great forum here, been in the trade for nearly 15 years, recently started up on my own, can safely say its the best thing I have ever done, no looking back to grafting like a dog for less than a tenner an hour!
Hi I have two 6mm csa cables in the loft each going back to a separate 30A mcb in the CU. One is redundant, the other goes to a broken 8.5kW shower. I want to fit a new 9.5kW shower and would like to join both 6mm cables together at a 50A dpst shower switch, then run a short length of 10mm csa...
Hi.
Your forum has always been a valuable source of info when needed up till now. I've finally joined as I'm at a point where I may need to ask advice.
I've moved from the midlands to Leeds. I have been a rope access tech for the last 6 months, having been an arborist from college 10yrs...
I'm currently working on some general improvements and fault rectifications on an unoccupied house, in my spare time. I've found that the living room ring and the kitchen radial are joined, so both remain live when one of the breakers is turned off. I've found the offending connection, problem...
I have a joined extention cable running around the house for Sky. The connection has come apart. Can anyone tell me which wires to join to which please.
4 wire cable from main box
Red
Yellow
Green
Black
2 wire going to Sky Box
Yellow(ish)
Blue
Any help would be appreciated as I have tried...
Hi all,
Just joined the forum today although i have used this before,there is a wealth of info
here which is handy at times!!
Anyway if anyone here is doing BMS installs please drop me a message we are always looking for new
opportunities.
Look forward to hearing from you fellow sparks...
Ive just got back from holiday to find i'm now a member of the NIC even though ive been registered with Elecsa since i started up 3 years ago,
What have i missed are they the same company now?
I have just sat first two days of Select design and verification of electrical installations course. Was wondering if anyone knows to to get my hands on sample case studys or past papers.
thanks for any help
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