Hi all,
Just a electrical student here, and on holiday at a caravan park so, of course, i go snooping about a bit for the electrics.
I notice the caravan at the hook up is fed off a 30mA RCD and 32A MCB. The board within the caravan contains a 30mA RCD and a 32A ring.
As im just learning I...
My customer wants to fit a large 12V chiller at her farm.
The supplier has said it is 12V and 80A.
A couple of questions..
1. What sort of power supply unit would you use for this? See link below of the ebay item.
2. Is this going to be 80A at 12V or 80A at 230V? At 12v it would only be...
Hi! Currently doing a job that they have decided against getting gas meters and going all electric.
Electric boiler 9.5kw
2x shower 9.5kw
Hob say 6.5kw
2x 32a ringmains
2x 6a lighting circuits
I understand they have had a 13Kva supply installed.
Obviously this will not be enough to run all...
Hi everyone…I have a quick query regarding an issue I’m having with my boiler at home. There has been no hot water, the electrician has come out and diagnosed that the supply from the main fuse board has blown the clock and fuse spur. They also found that the cable is a flex cable and not the...
We had an electrician out yesterday to fix something in our kitchen. I asked him to check our built in microwave and he said the wattage would be pulling around 14.56amps. After he looked at the wall socket he said that this microwave should be installed on its own supply and not on a standard...
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I have 2 x 250 litre unvented indirect DHW cylinders. The primary heat source is the oil fired boiler, but both cylinders have backup immersion heaters. Currently, only one of them is connected - it has a dedicated circuit with a 16a mcb and a DP switch. The cable is massive -...
We are replacing the flooring for the whole ground floor - it is a circa-2000-build house with concrete slab.
We're taking the opportunity to put in UFH at the same time. As it is a retro-fit, we are going with electric to keep the floor raise to a minimum.
Going with 150W/m2 heating - which...
Hi all.
My mum has just moved into a flat and it has an electric central heating boiler and a hot water tank/immersion heater for the hot water. I’ve said will look into putting a combi boiler in to free up the space in the cupboard for a washer/dryer.
The flat is about 10 years old. The boiler...
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I am looking to run a supply cable to a house in rural Italy, however, it's quite a distance from the pole to the property.
The distance is 1km, the supply is 230v, single phase, usage will be average... 8kwh?
My question is what size cable would I need? Would they need to be...
Took a look at a block of flats today that has a TNC-S supply. Each flat is fed by a 2-core mineral insulated cable. The earth and neutral are then combined again using a henley block prior to entering the consumer unit. Has anyone come across this before?
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I am replacing an old double oven with 2 new small ovens. The old oven is wired into a dedicated supply with a switch and the consumer board has a 32amp MCB B breaker.
New oven 1 requires a 15 amp fuse and 2790W. link below.
https://www.zanussi.co.uk/kitchen/cooking/ovens/oven/zohnx3x1/...
Currently pricing a 250a Power upgrade for a small warehouse, the new 6 way 250a MCCB panel will essentially be used to supply x2 fuseboards however i want to have the MCCB panel also supply the larger plant as i want the MCCB panel to take the heavy loads as the client said he will never be...
I will shortly be having a range cooker installed that requires 2 x 13 amp supplies. Maximum power required is stated as 3 kW and 2.85 kW respectively. I have a redundant cooker supply on its own circuit, probably 30 amp. I would like to convert this to provide the power for the new cooker. Can...
A 'Sunday challenge' for the qualified electricians....
Can anyone explain why a built-in gas meter housing box
that is located 600mm above a block paved driveway, with a plastic (Polyethylene - MDPE) supply pipe and no extraneous conductive part, could result in a dangerous potential...
We currently have a property being split into 2 No. flats.
The local electricity board have put the 2 No. meters and consumer isolators external at ground floor level within a housing.
My question is can we run the upstairs flat sub mains supply (SWA) through the ground floor flat to the first...
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I’d like to install a pedestal-mounted (230 V, 30 A max - programmable) EV charger close to my driveway, which ends about 12 feet away from the house, on the other side of a landscaped rock wall of sorts. While I am at it, I would like to oversize the circuit to allow a second EV charger to...
We own a small, one bedroom flat (built 1989).
An EICR inspection raised three C2 observations and recommendations:
(A) The shower cable, and mcb were incorrect size (9.5Kw Mira shower) - Recommend replace 6mm cable with 10mm cable (12 meters, surface run, in trunking) and replace 32 amp...
Hi there just looking for a bit of advice on a landlords supply within a block of new build flats my question is there is 6 outside lights which light up the path way to the bin stores. Now what I was thinking of doing is wiring them through the downstairs flat and drilling through and running...
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