Hi guys hope everyone is good
Wonder if anyone can offer any advice on the 7232 course if use done the course or any advice about it please ?
I've got a reasonable amount of experience and can carry out majority of testing and done electrical work for several years of which I normally have...
Hi guys me again still learning at 54.
Just doing some testing at home to get my head around things
Testing end to end of rfc and getting different readings on end to end of phase and end to end of neutrals.
Am I correct to be thinking a bad connection on an outlet somewhere as rfc wired in...
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Could someone explain this to me please. Connected to the contactor, over load are two coils (are they ferrite chokes) please see photos. Also why only two and not three one for each phase, marked with a 65 in the photos.
The motor is used to control a blower unit, that moves a bean...
My Fridge Freezer power was lost so I first changed the fuse, then I tried plugging it into another circuit which worked.
I bought a new electrical socket, but still no power from that socket?
Any ideas?
There's been no tripping of RCD or any other electrical issues.
Hope someone can help, went to replace sensor bulbs (incandescent) with leds when the bulbs went off or switched off they stayed on but with a small glow. I disconnected feed to utility light and lights went off no problem reconnected problem started. Is there a way to fix this problem, thanks...
Hello all,
I've searched the forum before asking but coming up empty handed??
I have a power cut from earlier. Live in a flat with a joined kitchen / living room and heard a bang from around the boiler area, then darkness.
Checked the CB's and had 2 tripped which were "B circuits" and...
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Had a touch on a recent install wholesalers cocked up and I’m now in possession of a brand new silk boxed SCHENIDER 315a switch fuse and an extension box to suit also shneider free delivery or collection southampton looking for £1300 the trade price is just shy of 2k so a steal
Went to have a look at changing an mcb to rcbo today for another Bathroom fitter and was presented with this lot,it’s had solar panels (that’s the mcb with the interesting bus bar link) and also a new boiler fitted in the last year, second pic is where the main bond was shortened to provide (I’m...
I'm sure this subject is on a sticky thread somewhere, so apologies.
Got asked to look at a shower that was tripping the MCB as soon as isolator turned on. House is rented, so tenant just wanted advice for a pint.
Took me 2 minutes to tell him to get landlord to have it replaced.
I took the...
Hello clever people
Hope you can help. We have our consumer box in our downstairs toilet, right in the top corner. I want to put up a small shelf above the sink, a mirror and a toilet roll holder on the same wall, but I'm worried about wires when drilling holes. I do have one of those live wire...
Morning guys!
Over the weekend I noticed that the 80a RCD in my consumer unit kept tripping. The house doesn't have anything particularly power hungry - no air con, no DIY tools. It even trips in the middle of the night sometimes (I know so because the house alarm has a little fit when it...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated on this.
Visited a job the other day where the light circuit had blown at the board. We Isolated the mains and tested but neutral bar remained live. Found that a rogue twin and earth with its neutral was on the bar and was live however the line conductor...
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Have there been any major changes in fire alarm systems in the past 25 years?
The reason i ask is i have just had a customer on the phone that is saying that the company who service the fire alarm system for a church hall says that the panel must be replaced as it's 25 years old.
Now as far as...
Hi there,
Been working as a domestic electrician for just over a year now after doing one of those intensive courses (Yes I have confessed!). Been working with a very experienced guy though and gone through a steep learning curve, god if I think back to how I was. Anyways I'm now thinking of...
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