Evening all,
Not a qualified spark so I thought it better to ask than make assumptions.
Swapping all switches/sockets in our house to screwless ones, all going fine until I went to swap the cooker isolator switch. The old one has feed top, load bottom. The new one has load top, feed bottom. As...
Whats peoples approach when dealing with the earth fly leads on RCBOs?
Got a board to fit next week and the bits arrived today. So been busy getting rid of packaging and putting bits together ready and checking its all arrived.
Hager say you can trim the fly lead and nuetrals down if needed as...
Just arrived at a job, 45amp shower isolator completely burnt out.
Checked cable and it's 4mm tne in trunking to 8.5kw triton riba shower on a 32amp mcb. Cable run is 5meters.
This was a new circuit installed only a few months ago. I expect loose connection on isolator causing burnt...
Hi folks,
I have a Schneider GET ultimate flat plate phone point to install tomorrow. I had a quick look at the face plate today when I picked it up and am befuddled. The terminals are not screw type nor insulation displacement type either. They look to be some kind of push fit akin to Wagos...
I accidently removed power supply cables from my pool pump
Advise please on what terminals to connect to. Red, Black , Earth-
Any help greatly appreciated
Hello all,
Today I tried to move the location of my parents ADT bellbox but made an amateurish mistake. The original cabling going from the Galaxy 2-20 alarm panel to the bellbox, was via 12 core alarm cable using the colours brown, blue, yellow and orange at the BELL part of the PCB. However...
Went to look at a job today for a customer whose electric underfloor heating has stopped working. It had the contractor mentioned in the thread title installed. It appears from the brief look that I had this evening to be four pole with the output voltage for the heating elements being fed from...
Quick one.
Tails are 10mm. Earthing cable from rod to earthing block inside the CU is 16mm.
Where i am, we have the tails in, everything RCB protected and then the earthing cables from the circuits/appliances etc into the earthing block. On my CU, the earthing block is a bank of 'quick...
Hi, can anyone help. I am trying to install a Honeywell Accenta G4 with new PIR sensors.
I am struggling to get the new PIR sensors to work correctly.
The new sensors I have are IS3016 Passive Infrared Motion sensors.
When I have wired previous PIR sensors, they have had 6 wires
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+ve...
Hi guys Merry Christmas
I have an E Prance WIFI door bell system but the batteries hardly last a week, the bell takes 3 x AAA batteries,
Can I connect a mains to 4.5 volt DC transformer onto the bell without blowing the thing up.
Many thanks
Nick
Hi all,
I have just moved into a house and changed a socket to a new one with USB slots so now I'm quite proud of myself. There is a light switch (2 gang 2 way - I think) one Light switch controls upstairs hall and the other switch controls downstairs hall - upstairs and downstairs are both...
As per the title, I have a digistat +RF which is losing its connection, it has until now worked fine for eight years, last week i decorated the office so the only difference is the colour of the paint I connect it and it runs fine during the day and then overnight when the time clock switches...
Why do fan and speed controller manufacturers use use U, Z , K or UZ sometimes the fan and contoller have different letters instead of harmonizing fan to controller, just asking never thought about it until a guy asked,
funny the things you just accept and just go by the diagram(s)
P
Does anyone know what brands make downlights wit push fit connections? looking for speed when it comes to fitting them 2 x 1.0mm cables. Fire rated down lights not integrated fittings. Cheers :thumbsup:
Hi Newbie to this forum
Can anyone please direct me with the wiring of an IP44 Weatherproof Switch (Greenbrook - WNSW2G-C).
I'd like to use double switch unit as an in-line on/off switching unit. Can someone please tell me which terminals I need to connect the Live, Neutral, etc (power supply to...
Hi, I am trying to find a place where to buy "square headed" bolts for battery terminals?
Like the one on this battery terminal:
http://www.pcscables.co.uk/images/1802/main.jpg
Obviously, if I buy new terminals I will get these bolts on them. But I would like to buy the bolts only, and...
I thought having one of those socket adaptors that allows you to push your testing leads directly in.
What's the general consensus? Do they conflict with testing resulting
think the one Iv looked at is made by kewtech
Dear all,
Please see attached a picture of a wall light from a customers house. The customer has 5 of these in total, they are now getting old and failing (poss due to running led lamps in non led fittings) Each light has a built in pir. They are all wired together from 1 switch inside the...
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