Does anyone have a table for Cu weight by dia? As in, what does 1m of 2.5 solid weigh, kind of thing. Like the resistance table in the OSG but for weight.
Hi all, I'm looking to tap into all the experience out there relating to the installation of outdoor LED strip lighting. I have a customer who would like this fitted under a capping stone on a low wall that surrounds his lawn and searching the web there are obviously many companies who can...
I need to install a cooker hood. Only close supply is the cooker switch. My plan was to install a FCU next to the switch and then terminate hood, fused appropriately.
My concern was, if the cooker supply is 6mm > I think I'm going to struggle terminating 2x6mm2 cables from the supply side of...
I have to price a job, first large scale job and looking for a rough price per metre you would charge to install, didn't know if there was a standard/average price please I know for sockets and lighting but this is new to price
Thanks in advance
Looking to run some power to my shed, my metre cupboard is opposite my shed 5 metres max, I have a smart metre and DNOs isolator, if I replaced the DNOs isolator and put a new 3 way metal unit in there so I’m changing the isolator like for like and then I’ll just feed an MCB from bottom of...
Hello all, My present duel fuel supplier, Bulb, doesn't use the smart meters installed by my previous supplier, British Gas. The 3 LED's on a separate unit linked to the electric meter are, top, (WAN) Green, on permanently, middle, (HAN) Red continuous flashing & bottom, (PWR) Green which I...
Are there any safety concerns with this being in the middle of my hallway? It has no cover and I'm not sure whether to be worried about it just openly sitting here like this
I find working as a labourer I never have to think about basic theory, so it's easy for me to forget.
Doing some experimenting tonight with 11meters of 2.5 T&E and a continuity tester.
End to end on the line 0.15ohm CPC 0.20 Ohm
It's not exactly what I expect. Is the difference something to...
Gents, i'm looking to cost a few new build residential developments in the near future, 30plus homes, and i'm looking for a price per metre for the electrical install, im currently at £30 per m, houses are midlands based.
Any help appreciated.
Hi all,
Does anyone know if anyone makes a 32A 3 phase plug that will attach to the end of flexible conduit? or... somewhere that does 6mm2 4 core H07 flex by the metre?
I've got a 10kW DC power supply to wire up. It's a 480v 3 phase unit bought off ebay. The people who've just bought it want...
Hi there, on a new build Im currently doing, they have decided to put the mains supply (metre etc near the front entrance, I have run a 25mm 3core armoured and have put an isolator in the mains cupboard, its about a 25m run from the mains cupboard to the mains cupboard, do I need any additional...
Id like to make my own 75 metre extension cable that will plug into a socket in an outbuilding then run up to another building 75 metres up a grass path offering 2 sockets at the end. Could someone advise on the best way to achieve this as would ideally like this to remain permanent so weather...
Hi All, a customer asked me to look at his supply to the garage which had been installed by previous owners. The garage is approximately 2 maybe 3 metres from the house and as far as I can tell is fed from 2.5mm T&E spurred off the ring. The cable exits the house through the wall about 2 .5...
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Just double checking with you guys on the following because I keep doubting myself based on what I was taight and the regs;
Wired up a bathroom recently in an extension and customer requested a light switch on the wall, checked the obvious in the regs and by my understanding you are...
Just wanted to know what panels are out there less than a metre wide. I know panasonic are about 87 cm used them quite alot. But wondered if there was any mid range panels less than the metre.
Thanks
Hi just fitting an Ikea double oven with total rating of 5100w, there's a 15m distance from oven to CU and its clipped directly to the wall but is Laid by some ring main cables for only a short distance to the consumer unit...my calculations suggest 4mm cable with 22.17amps, so I was going to...
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