Can I ask for some help I don't mind getting flammed

[lofty84]

Im fitting a Ei146 optical smoke on it I've got a live, ic, and neutral. I'm a noddy admitably I've looked at the instructions to save my blushes but there nothing telling me what I need to know. Out the ceiliing I've got a 3 core grey,black, brown and an earth. What goes wear sp? Please ? I'm saying grey to neutral earth to a chock block black (switch) ic and brown to live ....

 

[telectrix]

i can only think of 4, england, scotland, wales, ireland. ( not too sure about the last one, never been there )

 

[Richard Burns]

Just to make guitarist laugh:laugh3:
Some pictures of quality wiring in tourist locations!
They are using harmonised colours as you can easily see and some connections have been taped for safety!
Oh and in the hotel the CUs were at shoulder height with lots of missing blanks.

 

[Guitarist]

Thank you Richard, I do love seeing how the rest of Europe take their safety so seriously while they are lecturing us on what we should be doing.

 

[lofty84]

As I say cheers for all the advise and help and not giving me any grief for not knowing :blush5:

Ive got another question due to being a bit of bull in a china shop. I've got to replace an extractor fan with exactly the same one only newer but I didn't pay attention to where my live went assuming it would just be a earth neutral and live termination, well upon further investigation I've got a earth terminal a neutral terminal and I know what got in these but then I've got a terminal marked t a terminal marked LH and a terminal marked LL I would say the live conductor should go in the Lh but I'd sooner know for sure then a bang to tell me otherwise, does anyone know I would refer to the instructions but they are long gone

 

[sedgy34]

What make and model is it
or just go eeny meeny miny BANG!!!!! Lol

 

[Guitarist]

The manual should be online somewhere.

 

[johnboy6083]

As a side note, dies anybody bother sleeving the black core on 4 pole click roses? I admit I don't. It's obvious what it is.

 

[sedgy34]

The way to look at it is you would be pulled up on it on an assessment so for the time and effort it takes yes I would sleeve it

 

[johnboy6083]

Fair point.

 

[johnboy6083]

I've gota say that I've been on jobs where over a thousand if these click roses have been fitted, and not one that I saw was sleeved.

 

[sedgy34]

Just good to start doing it then

 

[lofty84]

It is an expelair premier if any one knows the answer please let us know as I'm about to put it up

 

[Geordie Spark]

I could never understand why the rest of Europe didn't "harmonise" to our colours.....

I asked this very question when I was doing the courses at college but never got an answer.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Makes me laugh whenever I see pictures people show me from their holidays abroad in other European Countries, with uninsulated cables hanging between poles at head height and wires wrapped around overhead lines.
It seems that only a small handful of Countries actually bother to comply with European law.

Yes .. and our stupid country is one of them !!!

 

[lofty84]

It is an expelair premier if any one knows the answer please let us know as I'm about to put it up