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    What do you use to cut and strip tails or chunkier cables?

    Hi, hope everyone is well. I’m looking to buy some cutters to strip and chop 10mm cables and above, mainly domestic use. I was thinking of either getting 1. CK cable cutter 240mm, these are the biggest version which would give me more leverage to easily cut with barely any effort...
  2. S

    LED strip light load on 5amp circuit

    Hello, Newbie here. Tried to find the answer through searching, apologies if I've missed it. We are refurbing our house. I want to install RGBW LED lightning. 3 zones: A) Round the lantern roof light, B) Kitchen cabinets and Island C), Snug room (TV and cabinets) I would like them switched...
  3. S

    Led strip lights & 12v battery

    Hi all, I have a couple of questions I'm hoping you can help with. I have put a solar panel on my kids play house which charges a 12v battery. I have so far wired 3 lights and everything works great. I wanted to add an LED strip light in the understanding that they only require 12v. I bought...
  4. U

    PAT FAIL HELP - 19" Rack Mounted Surge Protected Power Strip

    Hi All, My colleague and I are currently doing PAT/ISITEE Testing, and we've hit a snag with a bit of equipment - we've got 19" Racks for our equipment that each have a Surge Protected Extension Lead mounted into them, they're Class I, and we test them on 250V. Earth Cont. and IEC Cont. are...
  5. W

    Just One Terminal Strip in Subpanel

    I have a main panel beside my meter on the house built in 1987. Then a 4 wire feed into a 200 amp panel on an inside wall of my basement. All of my house wiring comes into tjis inside panel as the breakers are in this second panel. Opened it up the other day and there is only one terminal strip...
  6. A

    Replace strip light

    I have a strip light in the kitchen operated from a single switch. I want to replace it with a straight bar 4 spot array. There are three supply cables to the strip light, two of these are 3 core, red, black and earth. The third cable is 4 core, red, yellow, blue and earth. The new fitting has...
  7. S

    Adding 12v strip lights to kitchen cabinets.

    I am currently looking to add 12v led cob strip lights to my mother's kitchen but confused what I need. There are currently mains wires under the wall units for the strip lights to connect to but when I measure the voltage with a multimeter it recording as 12v AC max, from what I can see online...
  8. S

    Led strip install cost

    I have had three led strips installed under wall units as part of a kitchen refit. A new pattress box was fitted in a stud wall next to an existing switch. Cabling was then fed inside the stud and out of the wall at the bottom then along the floor to the next strip and so on. Not connected as no...
  9. Mᴀʀᴛʏɴ

    Wanting to add led strip lights under the stairs.

    Wanting to add 2 strips of led lights down each side of underneath of the stairs, I have a socket I can spur off, into a fused switch, been looking at angle profile, so light is better, so ideally I need a LED driver, some led strips, and a way to connect them, happy to wire/solder something...
  10. Jameskhan111

    Help needed with led light strip

    Hi there, Please can I have some help with the following: I want to have some perimeter lighting in the ceiling which will be using the aluminium profiles that are plastered in. I am going to be using the following: FCOB RGBCCT LED Light Strip 6 Pin 12mm DC24V 960 LEDs RGB CW WW FOB...
  11. HnyBear

    Battery Powered Led Strip Project - Need Help!

    I am trying to put some led light strips under the fenders of my fat tire E-bike. I’ve been looking at led light strips on Amazon, AliExpress and Alibaba for weeks. I’ve decided on, and please correct me if I’m wrong, SMD 5050 WS2812B 144 led per meter strips. I need 1 meter per fender. Many...
  12. G

    Hard Wiring External Power Strip

    I'm putting up a pegboard in my garage. There is one outlet behind where it will be. I bought a 12 outlet strip to mount on the wall. There will only be a 1/2" space between the wall and the pegboard, so if I plug the strip in, the plug will stick out too far. Is it safe to cut the plug off the...
  13. F

    Joining White LED strip to existing RGB LED strip - can I do it?

    Hey all, We have an RGB led strip behind a tiled wall , and lights a little shelf in the shower area. The RGB strip has become faulty probably due to steam - it has changed from white to green. I want to cut away most of it , join some white only waterproof strip , tape up the join and feed...
  14. olisones

    LED COB strip not lighting despite power

    Hi all. First post and wondering if someone can help. I have a single colour LED COB that I’m having issues with. The strip is to be controlled by a small Wi-Fi controller unit. Due to the positioning, I removed the connector and now have a positive and negotiable wire. These both show current...
  15. O

    Led strip lighting issues

    Hi all. I just wanted to see if anyone has had issues with Fans on the same lighting Cct as LED strip lights. I have a job where the fan mech on the the next switch down on the same light Cct turns a LED strip on and off when running through the Fan speeds. Its not a switched active and the...
  16. H

    Under cabinet led strip lighting connected to light switch

    Hi, I have replaced some under cabinet kitchen tube lamps with LED ones. I followed the same layout and just replaced the lights. Each light (4 in total) is wired to its own fuse box and operated by the kitchen light switch on the wall. As well as each light being connected to a fuse box...
  17. W

    Anyone know how to strip a Hozelock Aquaforce Submersible Pump?

    Hi All, We bought a Hozelock pump about 8 years ago. It's still working but a dredger came along and cut the wire about 1 foot from the pump. All the waterproof connectors we tried hasn't worked and it's now time to find someone who could help us strip it down and rewire the whole thing...
  18. G

    low current draw on strip lighting

  19. S

    Attach pull cord to LED strip light

    I have a wardrobe with no lights or mains socket in it, I would like to put an LED light strip in there and somehow connect it to a pull cord switch and for power, I’d like to use batteries, probably 4xAA in a battery case which would have a positive and negative wire coming out of the end of...
  20. H

    Replacement strain relief clamp strip for large junction box

    I am doing some rewiring within the large junction box used for my central heating and hot water controls, which requires me to make use of two additional cable entry points. Unfortunately, many years ago the original installer threw away the flexible brown strips that were used as strain relief...

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