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I was wondering what makes rubber a good insulator. I understand less dense materials make better insulators, as insulators absorb/trap heat. But I want to know why rubber is a good insulator.
For example, wood makes a good insulator due to...
Got a 2 gang weatherproof socket to fit soon. Wondering what makes people would suggest? The house is quarter of mile from the sea so gets wind rain and everything else thrown at it!
Was looking at the MK masterseal- anybody use them much? worth the pennies?!
thanks.
Who makes a TP+N panel, bigger than a consumer unit, for example, 14-way (with space for 12 or 14 three-phase breakers).
It should feed its outgoing breakers using bus bars, not wires.
(I call this a Type B panel)
And it should be usable for Dual RCDs, one for the left side of the panel and one...
Definitely the shoe colour is wrong!
Italian Minister Maria Elena Boschi signing up to her government job
Quite the wrong choice of shoe colour to wear with that suit for such an important occasion, in my opinion!
Oops sorry THE PHOTO is a bit small!
2nd job saw me having to fit a switched fused spur on a cooker circuit. From the board a 6mm cable is run to a cooker switch. From here it looke to me like a 1mm core was run down to a jb and then another 1mm went from the jb to the job. I had to put a switched fused spur where the jb was and...
Hi,
Just thought id let you know I have just booked to upgrade my NICEIC membership to Approved :-)
I can remove those god awful DI signs off my van then!
This is just a disgrace a photo I say today beggars belief when you are competing against guys like this.
Utter disgrace to the pv industy
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The complete install carried out both elevations off a ladder !!
Hi guys
Just a bored sparks with very little on this evening.
Might be a boring or repeated thread if so I apologise in advance.
If anyone was to ask you what is your best trick of the trade what would it be?
Simple, complicated, down right odd, anything that gets you out of a hole or just a...
My husband switched on his stereo in the next room and the TV screen went blank for a few seconds then returned to the channel it was on.The plug sockets for the TV and Stereo on on the same side of the wall of each room with just the wall dividing them about 3 foot apart.Would I need to get an...
Heres a debate for you, seeing as this place is as dead as a doornail today.
I have been testing a street of domestic properties recently, wired in 2008 with all rcbo's. In some properties the electrician has put all the white fly-leads into one terminal in the earth bar, In the others they...
For those of you that missed it, A bunkc opf Door to Door Con artisists have been targetting people in South East Wales and West Yorkshire, chargeing them for fraudulent Green Deal Assesements.
They've been promising up to £10,000 of insulation etc for free in exchange for paid for 'surveys'...
How would i test for borrowed neutrals?
Would it be a case of disconnecting all circuits neutrals at the DB and doing a continuity test between each neutral and seeing if any two circuits bell out?
hope it makes sense and i appreciate any feedback
cheers
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