I am replacing a 1.5 internal cable that was run temporarily to give a constant on feed to,my new boiler, as the previous one didn't require this. Unfortunately the only route this could take was from a bedroom ceiling through the floor to the boiler downstairs.
I intend running a 1.5 armoured...
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I'm currently installing in a large house and the supply cable to the MCCB panel board is leaking a black bitumen type substance were the cable is terminated underneath. has anybody come across this before and is this a reason to be concerned?
Working onsite with a few apprentices the other day and noticed that every cable they terminated into the mcb or rcbo was doubled over, so when I asked them why they were doing it there reply was college taught them to do it that way. Now I have always terminated the cable without doubling it...
Hello fellow forum members, I have been looking at doing a crimping and connecting course with a well known manufacturer of cable accessories and connectors which they issue a certificate for as well as a soldering course as I have been asked for IPC610 certification for a few jobs at interview...
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I am wiring my house using CAT 6 Ethernet cable and bought outdoor grade CAT 6 cable as some of my runs will be outdoor. The problem is that outdoor grade CAT 6 cable is not very flexible by design - due to the black external layer, the white inner sheaf and the gel filled interior.
I...
New to testing and inspecting so bare with me. Doing a EICR on an old building of ours. One supply to a sub dis board using 3core swa runs through metallic trunking, through a wall, onto tray then into the sub dis board.
The supply end of the armour has been terminated with a bs951 pipe clamp...
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I'm in the early stages of pricing up/designing a large job which involves the complete renovation and rewiring of an old church. It's a large building (will hold a few hundred people) and they are possibly looking at rewiring parts of it (mainly where there is original stonework and...
Touched on this before, unable to find thread. Many thanks for your comments re isolation switches etc.
I've now decided to go for 4 x in line extractor fans all sited in the loft. Also that the isolation switch for each fan be sited along side each fan. The isolation switches will be...
I was thinking back to my youth, or more correctly my early days as a Sparky after completing my Apprenticeship, and having to carry out a MICC termination without the requisite MICC tooling, I had to do one end,only a small one, can't recall the exact size but it was on a lighting circuit. Any...
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I have had a small job in the pipeline for a while for a customer who is having stainless steel bollard lighting down either side of their drive way.
Nipped up to check on the jobs progress to find the client couldn't find the correct size light fitting so he has...
I've picked up a job of replacing some Brick Lights, whilst doing some work at a property.
The original lights seals have failed and had a very low IR reading. The lights were fed from the house via FCU and swa cable. I've disconnected both ends of the swa and have a satisfactory IR. What I'm...
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im designing an installation and pricing for a large property, i plan to feed sub mains using swa. Maybe a silly question, can i gland the swa in a stud wall and bring the cores through the plaster to the consumer units? customer wants to see no cables and id much rather use swa than twin...
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I am running two 5 core 50mmm SWA supply cables from my inverter location within the installation site to the roof, here i will be needing to connect to each of the cores up to 11 6mm dc cables.
Does anybody have any recommendations on what equipment...
Above is a picture of 2 16mm SWA cables terminated into a termination block. In my opinion this is the correct way to dress in the SWA and terminate it into the incoming side of the termination block, not putting it into the same termination as the outgoiong cables.
Is there a reg that says you...
I've been searching for a part that I used once and can't remember where it came from but I thought it was a neat little idea and could save some time if doing a lot of swa gland terminations. The part in question is a brass banjo with a flying lead soldered onto it! I want to buy a pack of 50...
In my own home I needed to blank a socket that was on a ring and at the consumer unit It had a 32a breaker installed.
When I went to wickes, and also two electrical wholesalers they only sold 30amp electrical connectors (choc blocks) and the next rate up was 60 amp which were huge and would...
Hi guys, as title really, i need to terminate 4 25mm swa's on the outside of a 5 floor building and wondered if anyone has done something similar and could you recommend a product. Looking to terminate the swa into an ip rated enclosure and then run twin tails from their straight through the...
At a house today to do a job. Had to pull the fuse and found the attached in the meter cupboard. Customer tells me there is another unit in the garage, both serve a caravan (I didn't verify this as it had nothing to do with my work). Both units have had the SWA made-off with BS951 clamps. One of...
I recently came across an armoured cable on an ECR that was installed in earthed metal trunking from one dis board to another.
Both ends of the armoured had not been glanded off and the SWA had been taped over. As it is enclosed in the tunking and both ends are in the
distribution boards would...
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