Am absolutely gutted, my Fluke 1587 insulation tester appears it's had an unknown fatal incident.
I was doing some testing a few days ago and was fine. Yesterday I assumed the batteries were dead and replaced new ones. Then checked the fuse, dead. That did surprise me.
At a loss what happened...
The stately home I work with has asked me to repair a couple floodlights not working.
Mounted very high up… I could hang over the roof and checked the lamp, which was ok… but noticed water behind the glass.
Am building scaffold tomorrow to check the supply, although non-contact was indicating a...
I've had 3, mostly Amazon specials. All started arcing after a few months.
For a 60W bedside lamp.
Google hasn't brought up much other than the Amazon standard.
Any suggestions please.
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Recently we've been having a few issues with smoke and heat detectors.. been fitting them for years and years now mostly without any issues..occasionally changing battery's or units that are out of date.. but in the last 18 months we have a some problems.
Last year we did a rewire and...
For a roof top boiler enclosure that is really way too hot in this weather .Plan to have large vents at the bottom and to use a Room stat set up to run a 6 inch bathroom fan etc to come on when it hits 25 degrees inside. This morning it was reading 47 degrees inside ! Using the room stat in...
Have had to return a number of standard led sensor lights which malfunctioned within a mater of months. (standard outside type). Has anyone had similar issues? If not which brand are you using?
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We are installing electrical equipment into domestic houses. This equipment needs to be monitored 24/7 by an internet connection, back to our office. An ethernet port on the equipment allows this internet connection to be made.
The equipment is not usually installed near the household...
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We want to install a myenergi Eddi , so we can heat our water boiler from solar.
Problem is, it has no bypass, so if it dies from mains transients, then we cant get any hot water until we get the electrican in to un-install it.
So how reliable is the Eddi?
And how suseptible to mains...
I am helping someone with Alzheimer's ; there is research showing that flickering light at 40 hz can possibly ameliorate symptoms. There are commercial 40 hz LED lights which flicker at 40 hz. There is also an app called Alzlife which has 40 hz flickering light. I have read that the light from...
A UPS' job is to provide reliable power in the event of a maind outage/disturbance, but the Dell-branded APCs we have are less reliable than the mains. They were bought some 3 or so years ago, have had failures and been replaced (also one battery pack as they are not compatible with the...
We have a garden footpath 16m from front door to garden gate with a shed near the gate.
I am looking for the following set-up:
a) an independent PIR sensor x2, one at each end of the circuit
b) these to operate 3-4 LED spikes or low level spots between the two
c) plus a floodlight to light the...
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I have a wall where i know that there are some wires inside, as the electric installation of the thermostat is placed there.
I need to drill a hole in that area and obviously i want to avoid hitting those cables. I have bought a stud finder to see where can i drill the hole, but it...
hey guys and girls , got to install 3 cat6 points in a property . What are a decent brand for the faceplates and modules . gonna need a single plate in 3 rooms and a 3 gang plate with modules where the incoming line is.
not really had much experience of this ,have used deta cat5 modules in the...
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I am 18 years old , completed my level 2 & 3 electrical installation city and guilds.
I do not know what to do now as I can’t get an apprenticeship because I’ve done all of the theory side but have no experience. So I am just wondering how I can get experience so I can start building my...
I'm looking for a reversing camera for my van, basically for when i'm hooking on a trailer on my own.
I believe they only work when reversing, (taking power from the reversing light) but I would like it to work when I want it to, so I can check the trailer load while driving.
Do they work with...
I just purchased a towel radiator for my newly renovated bathroom last week, and I’m now interested in buying a towel rail element with thermostat from this online seller. But before I decide to avail anything, I want to ensure first that I’m buying from a good seller. Is there anyone here who...
Thinking of replacing electric fire with gas one, electric ok but noisy, one of these fancy fan heaters. Last gas fire was always going wrong, so was wondering if any one could recommend one that is reliable, or more to the point, which ones aren't reliable! Not after anything fancy, but Valor...
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