I would like to get some information on what protection is on a multi meter when accidentally testing a live circuit while the meter is on the ohms range?
I seem to be getting different sides to the argument.
One side says that there is no protection against this other than a audible warning...
Good day readers, if any,I am an old sparky, a very old sparky. I can remember old Faraday giving us lectures Wednesday evenings at evening
classes; I haven't learned much since. Intro over..................HELP!
I live in a bungalow with electricity as the only energy supply. This supplied...
Hello fellow electricians,
Would anyone know how to connect a Nalder Bros & Thompson LTD London, please?
~The BS 89 is a tough book to obtain.
I wired the unit according to this diagram, which is the closest what I have.
This is the beauty in pics:
And this is what I thought to do next, plug...
Hi All,
I have a client who is developing a plot of land for a single house. Currently, their 100 amp service cut-out is in a cubicle fed by overhead cable, however, this is in the way of the build. Rather than having the cubicle moved before the build and then again once the build is...
I have a small 3 bedroom flat with two electricity meters, both meters have been in the flat since 1992, I bought it in 1997. I have white meter heating (storage heaters) however no longer use them. The readings seem incredibly unreliable as some months can be £100 and the following month can be...
Have been asked by a customer to fit prepayment meters in a house divided into flats.
Not seen the job yet,but told each flat has a cu.Have been in contact with S P Wales,
who can supply digital meters,and prepayment cards,which the landlord sells to the
tenants.In the past have only fitted...
Hello
I wonder if anyone could advice please.
We have only electric. We are not able to have a smart meter as there is anothe rcable required (too short or something) but EDF will not do it.
Years and years ago we used to have a smart meter thing before they were called smart meters! I used to...
I’m currently in the home-buying process, and some of the homes I’m looking at have Smart Meters installed. Thankfully, I live somewhere where we can easily opt-out and have an Analogue Meter installed by the utility company, so making that modification would not be too difficult. However, I’m...
I am in a residential block of 5 flats and have been told that to have various bits of work carried out, the seals of each of the 5 meters needs to be removed. That means that each account holder of each flat has to arrange for an engineer to attend on the same day to remove the relevant seal...
Hello everyone, thanks for this nice forum!
I'm looking for some raw logs of RS485/Modbus communications between an inverter and its smart meter for both Sofar and Growatt hardware. (The most important for me is Sofar's hardware, since I'll have access to a Growatt one in August, thus will be...
Since I moved in to my house just over a year ago I have had 2 electricity meters. One changes as I use electricity, the other just stays at the same reading. The meter that moves has DOM written above for domestic probably. The other one has O/P written above it. What does O/P mean? I have...
I have a Kewtech KT63 which I picked up a couple of years ago for testing stuff in the shed.
It has just run out of calibration and I'm not sure whether to contact Kewtech and ask them who to calibrate it or what?
I know on Ebay people are calibrating but you have to package it up and send it...
Hi there
I recently moved to a new flat and it have two different eletric meters. The first one is a regular one and the second one is one for the economy 7 tariff I think sibce it have meters for low and normal. Wouldn't only the second be enough? I attached the photo. Thanks for the help
Smart Meters that can be installed at the Consumer Unit.
For situations where a tenant wants the facility but the landlord doesn't want a a smart meter on their premises.
Does anyone know of such a device?
I'm thinking of something that can be installed outside of the CU monitoring the line...
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I maintain the electrical installation for an old building that is converted into flats. The DNO only owns the transformer and we have a single electricity meter for the whole site. All of the switchgear is ours and the flats have submeters that are also ours (the management company that own the...
My energy supplier igloo folded in oct and we've been with eon since. I keep getting emails and letters about upgrading to a smart meter.
What's the pros and cons?
I like the idea that I can monitor usage. I was looking at buying something for that purpose anyhow
My customer wants a meter for the small garage CU I am fitting.
The CU will have 2 circuits, 16A sockets and 6a lights.
My question is, do the din rail meters just monitor one circuit or can they do more than one. Could anyone link to a suitable din rail meter that monitors the whole usage...
I have a question for you all, We recently moved, and the old house had the analog meter on it, the new place has 3 structures on the property.. a barn, a defunct kennel which im going to turn into a workshop and the house itself.
All 3 buildings have these smart meters on them.. Our first...
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