Hi all,
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I am moving house on Friday (Lancing to Sompting , so not far) and since I don't really work in this industry any longer, I no longer have need for some twin and CPC, so if anyone is local to West Sussex and can collect it before the end of Wednesday evening...
Hello,
i don't really know if this forum is where I am meant to come to ask questions but I'm hoping someone will help me anyway :)
over the past 6 months or so I have had different lamps that stop working completely once the bulb has blown in it. The 1st lamps bulb blew in the living room and...
Saw these holesaws mentioned on another thread so went and bought one. Not cheap but absolutely brilliant so sharp, only problem is the pilot in the power change adapter is too short, do they do a longer one?
Can only see one type listed online, any ideas?
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in short, bit of a kick in the teeth really, we had 3 customers lined up to have extensions put in based just on getting export payments, and that looked to me to be a sensible start on the gradual road to a zero FITs situation. Suppliers we'd...
Hi I wonder if anyone to clear something up for me.
i have a customer who wants a consumer unit located in a more convenient position for them and the house users...main fuse and CU would be slightly longer than 3m (say 4m) and they wanted the meter tails run above a plasterboard ceiling (in...
Wondering if anybody can give me any further advice....
Bought the above multifunction tester brand new 3 years back. Been regularly calibrated but has been back to kewtech twice in the last year with an issue where it reads 0.00 on loop tests and o/l on pffc test scale. They charged me £200...
I have had a customer suspect that something is wrong with one of the LG panels we installed a couple of years a go. They have sent the photo (attached) as I have not visited site yet. System performance is reported as ok although the customer has not check any data on the inverter, it's a SMA...
What is the main purpose of putting a SF inline with the main head for running mains further than 2m to location of CU?
I know it must be to do with the operation time of the DNO head but I can't figure out correct terminology.
We all know each site is different and there are so many variants which can affect the time taken to complete a ECIR. But what would you say is an acceptable amount of circuits to be testing per day?
Hello all,
I have been to a property with a crabtree starbreaker board main switch is 80A 30ma rcd.
The customer thought the dishwasher was tripping electrics I teste IR when I tested RCD it tripped on times half!
I have ordered a new one but when the breaker is turned off for the PV the rcd no...
Anyone else heard this madness??
Just ordered a few C.U's from my wholsalers and they've rang me back to say hager no longer offer glazed doors on domestic consumer units?? Even though the hager product catalogue is full of them?? Can't believe that!! I really preferred the glazed lids
Speaking to someone recently who's recently had an EICR done on a 3 bed detached 1970's, they wanted my opinion on a couple of things. I ended up asking out of interest how long it took. They said two of them turned up and half hour it was done! To which i replied no chance. I said it must of...
hello all
can you help please last week bulbs blew then tripped at consumer box reset
since then my dimmer switches no longer work
1 in dinning room and 1 in living room ?
they blew on separate days
one i have had for around 5 years the other 1 year
thank you Paul
After being self employed for the last 5 years and paying the NIC scam ransom i got fed up with the hassle of it all so took a full time on the books job and i am pleased i did,having a young family and mortgage its nice to know how much i have coming in each month,i have still been doing the...
Hi all,
Im wiring a domestic property where the cu needs positioning about 15 meters from the meter. I'm going to wire using swa. I'm aware that I will have to provide a means of isolation with tails over 3 meters but must it be a switch or specifically a swicted fused isolater? The cost is...
On the BBC website today, former British heavyweight champion Gary Mason has been killed while out cycling. Never a great favourite of mine but a sad end
Hi all,
I don't suppose anyone has one of these they no longer use / require.
At present, I can't quite afford the prices of new ones. Ebay doesn't have anything and so I thought I'd ask my favourite electricians...
Please PM me with details if you do.
Many thanks,
Simon
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