I've been retired a few years now so no longer active in the industry, but I've been doing electrical "stuff" for most of my life.
Trained as a Student Apprentice with NORWEB, repaired electric fork lift trucks and designed all sorts of electrical control panels, from PCBs, through PLCs and starter panels up to 11kV (and occasionally higher) switches.
Now I play.
I started as a kid reading resistor colour codes for my colour-blind dad. I've been building radios, amplifiers and computer bits ever since.
While we were locked down by covid I decided to rip out the rather dodgy wiring in my "shed" and redo it properly. There was already a feed there, tapped off the ring, but with no protection of its own. I fitted a little RCB input CU, with mcbs for lighting and power. Unfortunately I had nothing but a multimeter to do any testing with, but as the job was so small (less than 1/3 the size of an average garage) I didn't let it worry me too much as I could see all the wiring from one point. As mentioned elsewhere, I've just picked up an old MFT so I'm going to give the shed a "proper" test at last - for the fun of it as much as anything else.
Mick
Trained as a Student Apprentice with NORWEB, repaired electric fork lift trucks and designed all sorts of electrical control panels, from PCBs, through PLCs and starter panels up to 11kV (and occasionally higher) switches.
Now I play.
I started as a kid reading resistor colour codes for my colour-blind dad. I've been building radios, amplifiers and computer bits ever since.
While we were locked down by covid I decided to rip out the rather dodgy wiring in my "shed" and redo it properly. There was already a feed there, tapped off the ring, but with no protection of its own. I fitted a little RCB input CU, with mcbs for lighting and power. Unfortunately I had nothing but a multimeter to do any testing with, but as the job was so small (less than 1/3 the size of an average garage) I didn't let it worry me too much as I could see all the wiring from one point.
As mentioned elsewhere, I've just picked up an old MFT so I'm going to give the shed a "proper" test at last - for the fun of it as much as anything else. Mick
