Hi all
Hopefully somebody will be able to help out a confused idiot!
Visited a farm today which has recently had a supply upgrade from signle phase to split phase, thought I'd have a quick look at what had been done and noticed that they had bought the new supply cable in and added a new cut...
Can anyone recommend an electrical wholesaler in North London?
I am based near Turnpike lane N8.
Local wholesalers near me don't publish prices.
Do most folks order on-line these days?
Thanks
Tom
Where is the best place for supplies?
I have seen that some are getting CUs and MCBs all for less than £50. - WHAT!!!
I cant get below £100
Post your websites below
Hopefully the admins will sticky this
Hi Forum-ers,
I was hoping someone can help me, as I'm stepping out my normal line of work to help a friend.
I'm an electrical fault finder on the railway, but previously did some industrial work and so have BS 2391.
My friend is installing a small kitchen in a shop, the shop fitter has handed...
Hi,
First of all this is my first post so hello to everybody.
I want to start by saying I am not a plant electrician but recently have had cause to look at some drawings that are confusing me somewhat and hope someone here can shed a little light.
The situation is that there is a 240VAC...
Greetings all.
I have taken ages erecting a rather nice looking conduit system for my neighbours very large garage/barn.
I am due to pull the wires through this weekend, all switches, sockets, lights etc are in place.
The thing is I want to put the outside lights and the inside lights on...
Hi,
Ime italy havve just brought out a new bit of kit, that might be usefull to keep inside the spanish load limits http://www.imeitaly.com/docs/NT752.pdf it consists of a load monitor and contactor in the same unit, if the total connected load exceeds a certain limit it drops the non essential...
The shop in question was two seperate units which has been converted into one unit years ago. The business uses both the meters for the electicity supply is this allowable or are they supose to run on one meter only? This would release a meter and supply which would be beneficial for the flat...
I've been asked to spec up a job at a newish office block. Raised flooring has been installed with bus bars and tap off leads. Bus bars have been installed using 10mm swa with 63amp MCB, tap off leads have 32 amp unfused plugs on them.. There are about 12 floor boxes per bus bar and 4 bus bars...
Working in a factory at the moment
One half of the building is fed from one street, the other from a different supply in a different street
Should the bonding be connected together or kept separate?
I own a canal boat. Most canal boats have an on board facility to connect to a shore based supply of 240 volts AC. I never use my connection as I seem never to be at at a mooring where such supplies are available, I am also concerned about the galvanic effects on boats.
In discussing the subject...
hi everyone
i have a extension to wire the house has 2 supplies as there used to be a anex attached, if i use the old anex supply for the extension how do i stand on the bonding side of it? the boiler is in the old part of the house and the gas is bonded there, but the sink is in the new part...
There are 3 panel heaters which have both supplies connected to it.
The peak supply is controlled via a 4 zone programmer which I' ok with. The off peak supply to each heater is via a contactor in the CU. The switch circuit for the contactor is fed via a 6amp MCB, but can't find where or what...
I am doing some work for an engineering company who are taking over the unit next door. I have put in new 80A fused isolator feeding 3 phase board, this is supplying various 3 phase sockets, single phase lighting, 3 circuits along with 13A sockets. They have just had Propane heater installed...
Ive got an apartment with 3 bathrooms all on 1 fan which is on permanently, they want to be able to switch on a light in each individual room and the fan but go off when the light goes off too. is there a relay or contactor that will take 3 diferent supplies but not backfeed to the lights in the...
Greetings.
I am helping to re-wire a bungalow that has an earth rod.
The supply cable is overhead, it's the same for the whole street.
I took a walk up the road and noticed all the overhead cables converged on one single pole.
On the pole was written PME and three cables ran down the pole into...
Hi Guys,
I have an installation which has two incoming supplies.
General supply, billed to owner (Phase 1)
Off peak supply, shared between residents (Phase 2)
The old installation was very old, the fuse panel was in the hall outside the flat and was a large enclosure (2m x 0.5m) and...
Just wanted to share something to you all. Rewired a bungalow which had BS3036 stuff and replaced with nice new shiny RCBOs.
Customer called me to say at 7.20am every morning, all the RCBOs would trip off like dominoes.
The electric board accused me of having installed faulty circuits...
Hi guys, hope your all well,
Just a quick question:
ZE on a 3 phase supply, is it the same as say a TNC-S system 0.35ohms ???
Also, can you get TN-S on a 3 phase as well ???
Thanks in advance for your help,
Sav
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