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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...
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...
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...
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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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On page 17 of this document, there is the following statement followed by examples.
Amendment 1 to BS7671:2008 no longer requires departures from the requirements of the current edition of BS7671 that do not give rise to danger or require improvement to be included in condition reports...
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Found this on a large testing companies website:
'Where the mains supply is connected, as will be the case for periodic testing, the protective and equipotential conductors must not be disconnected because if a fault occurs these conductors may rise to a high potential above...
Hi guys have a Question on a practice paper and cant get the answer to the same as paper what am i missing any help would be great thanks in advance.
A radial socket outlet is supplied in 2.5mm cable and is 20 m long the Ze of the istallation is 0.43ohms and the resistivity of the cable is...
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Hi all.
New to this place and have a question about TT distribution.
New 80A TT Supply being put in.
Have to send it 45m to a new Barn Conversion but am unsure best practice.
I am going to put a time delayed 100mA RCD by the Main fuse and then get a consumer unit with 30mA standard type RCD...
Can anybody help me find the best place to start when tackling a question like this?
Ex Q1: An immersion heater rated at **, ** kW is to be installed using **** sheathed cable. The circuit will be fed from a ** , and will be run for much of its length in the roof space which is thermally...
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Looking for practice work, will work free, Lincolnshire or 100m around peterborough!
PLEASE help someone! I have started C&G 2357 level 3. to successfully get the diploma I need practical work.
I am 25yrs old, have own car, hand-on person!
please some one!
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hi all,
had a bit of a discussion with a guy at work today, carrying out a periodic and there was a circuit wired in flex at the DB, i seem to think this is a code 2 but cannot find anything in the regs to back this up?
is it ok for circuits to be wired in flex?
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I was hoping someone wouldn't mind giving me a shove in the right direction regarding something I saw today, Pleeease :).
I kept my mouth shut because I didn't want to open a can of worms without having the ammo to back up any explanation required.
Cooker radial non RCD protected (No RCD in...
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Hi guys,
Have to make off some 95mm lugs onto an old Bill main switch, which has 160A fuses. There are 4 terminals with an M10 dome head bolt with a square shank for the 3 phases and neutral, and there are currently 2 lugs on each bolt, 1 feeding a main dis board and 1 feeding a new switch fuse...
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I had a phone call from a sales girl at Solar Fusion in Bournemouth a couple of days ago. She phoned back today to confirm an appointment for someone to visit and survey for solar PV and/or solar thermal. It's not No.1 on my priority list at present, but I thought I might as well get an opinion...
Well what can i say chaps ESC have used some of my pics in the latest Best Practice guide No4 http://www.esc.org.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/industry/best_practice/BestPracticeGuide4-Locked.pdf
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Is it really nescessary to calibrat testing equipement every year. When it is done to multimeters and the like readings before calibration and after are the same so what is the point?:devilish:
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