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I'm planning to replace the MCB on my outdoor electrical box with a better quality one, and since there is already an isolator installed by ESB Networks, as a DIY I can safely do it myself. My question is, about the isolator marked inside the orange circle. Does anyone knows what key...
Hi people,
Just wanted to know what everybody’s thoughts are on small outdoor consumer units for EV chargers?
Some are saying that they aren’t good because you get condensation build up in them and terminations rust corrode etc after a few years and they don’t last.
Do you fit them?
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2 weeks ago ,I basically replaced a previous external standard light that was outside the house near the door with a 50w PIR floodlight. I kept the same cable that was connected to a switch inside . I attached the new floodlight using wago connections with new and old cable. Put it...
Have been asked to run cable down a garden to a sauna. Still quite new to this game so wondering what solutions are common currency for having a consumer unit in an outdoor enclosure? Obviously I'm not going to have it in the sauna so exploring having it in some kind of IP-rated box out of...
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I'm looking at getting an outdoor double socket fitted. I'm hoping for some thoughts from the forum who have already provided a lot of valuable help and advice.
Any work will be completed and signed off according to regs by suitably qualified electrician.
The planned setup is to...
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I have a hybrid car and I’m trying to install a socket outdoors. I’m on E7 and have storage heaters on their own circuits, can I make a little T junction within a back box like so and connect that round the corner to an external EV-rated socket? Circuit is 16A, storage heater does not...
I need some outside containment for about half a dozen or so unsightly cables run outdoor - a mix of black telephone, black security alarm, red (now faded to orange) fire alarm. These are all existing cables, and need tidying up and supporting properly (currently all tied to disintegrating...
Looking at a job wiring some outdoor lighting and not too well up on the newer control methods
Is there a quinetic receiver which fits into a back box for basic on/off control of lighting?
And also is there an alternative to the traditional photocell > timer control of lighting without...
I bought some outdoor festoon lighting a few years ago and the 2 pin connectors (male and female) have corroded so I’m going to splice the connectors together using heat shrink butt connectors. Each run is 5m with a male and female 2 pin connector at each end. My first thought was that this...
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I replaced an outdoor electrical socket recently with a 2 gang, BG socket which has LED lights to show when it is switched on. Since then I can’t get it to work. The LED lights come on so it definitely getting power. But both 3 pin plug sockets refuse to work. I have read and re-read the...
Hi all, it's been a while since I've been on, apologies. I am debating whether I need to replace the bonding to the gas meter. The meter is positioned outside and the bonding has been previously run as shown in the images. My first question is, is the weathering shown to the cable an issue...
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I've been planning to fit an outdoor junction box at the front of my house to hide a large brickwork hole and properly house the wiring connections and was wondering about the wiring terminals I discovered.
Two outside lights are wired in and two separate terminal blocks are used to connect...
Armoured cable or equivalent to go around garden border for on the ground flood lights everyone using any alternative to swa, will H07RN be OK or not will be on rcbo thank
Autumn is now here, it's that time of year where the clocks go back and lighting control moves forward. A time when UK customers with gardens want to light up their outdoor spaces earlier in the evenings; meaning they'll be looking for new lighting and a reliable method of wireless switching...
I found a 13A FCU, connected to the kitchen ring supplying an outdoor junction box, providing two SWA 2.5mm radials. Unconventional? yes. One radial 3m long to IP56 socket, and one radial supplying garage unit, lightning and power.
Trying to connect a 50 amp inlet box to my Siemens outdoor combination panel 200 amp cutoffs. Can’t figure out where to insert the 50 amp breaker since the 200 amp breakers appear to cover the whole panel. The panel has two 200 amp breakers, but want to connect it to just one of the panel...
Forgive me if this is easy to search - I was not able to find anything obvious here or on YouTube. I've got an outdoor circuit that has failed. Specifically, one outlet failed and then the second one went about a year later, with no trip of the breaker. How do I test the wiring to make sure it...
We have an outdoor socket that is hard wired into the ground floor power circuit and protected with an rcd in the consumer unit.
I now plan to add a spur from this outside socket via armoured cable to a new socket further down the garden.
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Should we install a double pole switch on this...
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