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  1. K

    Best Practice / Design question ...

    Hi everyone - I've not been around on here for a bit - hope everyone has had an enjoyable summer. - I have a quick question about best practice / design of a solution for a job I've been asked to consider. In summary, I've been asked to reconnect an existing SWA supply to a byre...
  2. I

    practice test board

    for sale practice test board rcd dual consumer unit 2 way lighting circuit ring circuit raidial circuit fused spur with neon circuit gas pipe water pipe all new great help for 2394-2395 course some course material aswell £70 Pm me if interested can i will try and load a pic
  3. P

    Dimmer Switches for Fluorescent Lighting in dental practice

    Hi, A customer has 2 fluorescent lamps and a single gang light switch at the moment but he wants to change the switch to a dimmer switch. Will check whether the tubes are compatible with dimmer switches but what I want to know is whether there are any purpose made dimmer controls for...
  4. P

    Board change with no cpc on lighting

    Hi all Been asked to quote for a board change. Had a quick look round the place and discovered lighting circuit has no earth. Where do I stand on this? Current board is 3036s and will be replacing with rcbos as wiring is quite old. Will also be bonding the gas and water from 4mm to 10mm.
  5. S

    PAT Testing code of practice 4th Edition, Sticker Jockeys

    Ok so Firstly I own Manchester PAT testing company and our main approach is to try to educate people on PAT testing and periodic inspection and testing. So many people I speak to even people who claim to know alot about testing seem to think is it Law and I have seen on many of my competitors...
  6. T

    Terminating an armoured onto a cee form plug....bad practice?

    Alreety chaps, got a quick one for you. How do you all feel about terminating armored cable onto a 32A ceeform plug? If i went to a job and saw this i would think it was abit odd/what cowboy had done it, HOWEVER. A client has had a bit of a man shed built in his back yard and it covers the...
  7. L

    Use of cpc as a live conductor - EICR Coding

    Fella's I'm just writing up an EICR from last month, one of the findings was a lighting circuit on the non RCD side of the board where the cpc was used as a strapper in 2 way light switching, Ive marked it as C2 for two reasons, one being that there is no longer a cpc in the cable and also that...
  8. D

    It's legal, but is it considered bad practice...

    Doing a decorating job for family and they want me to wall mount a TV for them. Just need to install a single 13A socket next to the TV bracket. Problem comes because there are currently no sockets on that wall, the closest one to spur from is about 10 feet away, around a corner. I could...
  9. A

    Mistake In 4th Edition Code of Practice?

    Possible senior moment here, but the book arrived this morning, I've opened it up, P39 Chapter 4, 4.2 RCD Protection, and it says about portable equipment used outdoors ...."Any RCD used to provide this protection is required to have a residual operating current not exceeding 30mA at 40ms"...
  10. L

    Not Good practice I know but

    I changed my parents consumer unit to a new 17th eddition MK one a little while ago. Everything went well and when I turned it all back on there was no problems with any of the rcd tripping so it looked like everything was good and I knew what Iw as doing. Today though I was just being nosey...
  11. KierenPhillips

    Conduit Bending

    Doing some steel conduit bending (90, single set and double set) but can't find anything online of how to do it or such, can anyone direct me to some posts/videos on how to bend them? Thanks, Kieren
  12. A

    Best practice for wiring an LED driver to the lighting circuit

    Before I begin, I put my hands up and admit I'm neither a sparks by occupation, nor a qualified domestic installer, nor Part P qualified. I do have a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and I spent many years doing temporary lighting installations for theatrical shows, concerts etc...
  13. M

    eicr -query over classification codes

    1. What classification code would you give on a front end rcd. 2. two ring circuits connected to a single mcb. In dispute with a customer and awaiting payment Thanks
  14. H

    Bad practice for an immersion heater

    Today I came across an old Wylex board that had its fuses converted to MCB (BS60989). There was so many issues such as new shower fitted in bathroom with no rcd to mention one but the worst was an immersion timer which had burn out due to 1mm of wire being used. The immersion was feed by 2.5mm...
  15. V

    Fitting an outside halogen light,best practice?

    Hi all,I've got one of these to fit and although it comes with an ip rated fitting I'm curious to know if it's best practice to fit it this way? I have several lengths of good swa off cuts from my previous work and gland kits to suit but I'll be powering the lamp from upstairs which will mean...
  16. P

    IET Code of Practice

    A chance to find out about the implications of the IET Code at FREE 4th Edition Code of Practice Seminars from Seaward
  17. G

    vetinerary practice

    Hi i have been asked to price up a small vetinerary practice new build. Its going to be with suspended ceiling im scratching my head on away of running the cables over the ceiling and correctly supporting them. In the past when i worked for a company on jobs with suspended ceiling cables were...
  18. Dan23584

    Nuts for RCDs!

    Has anyone else experienced other sparks going nuts for RCD's and thinking they are required for pretty much everything? I recently did the installation at my local CEF branch and had another spark telling me I should have fitted a dual RCD board! I reminded him that the install was in trunking...
  19. T

    Best practice for moving a consumer unit.

    Just been to see a job and the guy wants his consumer unit moved. It is curently in his kitchen and he changing that to a bathroom and building a new kitchen in the extension. The original wiring looks to a decent standard so i will be looking at extending the wiring from some sort of din rail...
  20. S

    best practice continuity

    If doing end to end continuity testing on a radial circuit (2391 test board) is there a requirement to carry out R1+R2 as well, and if so what does it prove? I carried out end to end on the board today as some of the circuit used armour as CPC etc and I was told I should have tested R1+ R2 as...

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