#~#~# Test-Meter Prize Competition #~#~#

[Paul.M]

Test-Meter has donated a prize for an Electricians Forum competition. All you have to do is:-

Show us your install


Simple really, just post up a picture of anything that "you have installed" recently and post it up. Test-Meter will judge each picture themselves and choose a winner. The prize is:- Electrical Insulation Tester - Electrical Cable Insulation Test Meter



Sorry about the poor quality photo, I've broken the lens on my phone, whoops.

You can post up any electrical install due to the nature of all of our different type of works.

This is worth £100!!! Very generous of Test-Meter to hand over such a prize, thank you. I will leave the competition open for 4 weeks and see if everyone has had the chance to enter.

Have fun and good luck

Paul M

 

[Paul.M]

Most of us can not compare to the "big boy installs" but we can all have a go and it is a fair competition and a bit of fun for us all.

May be Test-Meter can offer another prize or two???? Cough, cough, wink, wink

It is cheeky for me to ask (as they have done so much already) but I'm sure Mr C at Test-Meter can sort something out????

 

[Jamie]

Typical for us:

Red Yellow Blue? This looks like a old install haha

 

[ipf]

I've got loads on mate, should have been starting 2 x new builds (3 bed detached) on Monday but the builders have knocked it back until a week on Wednesday. Taking this time off to re-point my own house (and play golf lol, dont tell Mrs M that bit). Going to have to hire out a 10m tower to do the top of the house but it needs doing before the winter.

As for GS, he is well. Calmed down a lot and getting some good work in. He'll be around at my house next week helping with the re-pointing (although he does not know it yet ). GS owes me a favor or six, time to call them in. We will have that scaffold up in no time and get the job done. Any one that has worked with GS will know what I mean. He doesn't mess about that man.

Good to hear, is that. Could have done with him on that rewire, he'd have loved it with some of the grub provided by the lady of the house.
Glad to hear it's going well.
Had some real fun at a local works where I usually do all the work....new owner got some cowboys in...laughable standards.
I'll pm you, when I can, with some details.... I'm sure you'll p*** yourself....I would, if it didn't make me cry.

ps. Say hello to him for us.

 

[Paul.M]

Just been on the phone with GS, passed him your regards.

IPF, if you have a job on that you need a hand with, give me a call and GS maybe able to jump on it with/for you? I&T is his specialty, just watch the bull in the china shop go! GS is fun to work with lol.

As for the comp, post up your pictures.

 

[ipf]

Just been on the phone with GS, passed him your regards.

IPF, if you have a job on that you need a hand with, give me a call and GS maybe able to jump on it with/for you? I&T is his specialty, just watch the bull in the china shop go! GS is fun to work with lol.

As for the comp, post up your pictures.

Wish I'd have got some of those boiler houses, years ago, with dozens of pyro's termed in control panels......but I'd have had to take the photos with me Kodac.

 

[shanky887614]

Wish I'd have got some of those boiler houses, years ago, with dozens of pyro's termed in control panels......but I'd have had to take the photos with me Kodac.

yeah we do a bit in some plantrooms.

typical day when the wetboys have been playing the day before

this was the last nice job we did

 

[Besoeker]

Red Yellow Blue? This looks like a old install haha

It was fairly recent and for the middle east.

 

[Besoeker]

Another job..........

All manufactured and installed by us.

 

[Robotstar5]

We used to change the tooling over on a couple of the welding robots about every 3 weeks but could only fault find once it had been installed which meant downtime/lost production.
I built the panel to test/simulate the sensors, solenoid valves etc. prior to the changeover, I designed it so it could also be used as a manual welding fixture if the robot cell was down.

 

[Paul.M]

Any pictures lads?

 

[amckay]

Yes Paul but the app for android won't allow me to upload! Lol

 

[Engineer54]

http://i.Upload the image directly to the thread.com/2KWrrO7l.jpg

This photo make no sense to me whatsoever!! We have a full on flanged EEX'd panel that i imagine is mounted within a hazardous area, and directly underneath we have two bog standard metal clad twin sockets??

So Ollie, please explain what the hell's going on here???

 

[Ollie133cup]

The Exd Enclosure you are refering to is infact a Combined pressurisation, fire and gas panel. Now this is mounted inside the winch cabin itself which, once all the cabin doors are closed we can purge for a minimum of 3 minutes the unit to create a positive air pressure inside the unit compared to the outside. This means that gasses wont be ables to enter the cabin, once purging is completed the inside of the cabin is then deemed as a safe area and therefore the safe power contactor inside the cpfg panel is energised and allows non Ex circuits to be used. If there is a pressure loss or a fire, then all Non Ex circuits turn off.

The only circuits that are Non Ex and are still power in this event are the Intrinsic safe (very low current) circuits - Smoke/Gas detectors, alarms and break glass etc.

Thats the basics to why,

Ollie

 

[Engineer54]

That's a fair enough explanation Ollie. ...Thanks lol!!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Good question, good answer

 

[Knobhead]

I was brought up with intrinsically safe circuits as an apprentice. They don’t make life easy.

Knowing that if you make a cock up you’ll be sat on a cloud with a harp makes you take that extra little bit of care.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

It's been 4 weeks Paul. My install is clearly the best and I would like to know what I have won? :smile5:

..............

ps.. Joking! thought I better edit in case any thought i was beng serious!

 

[ipf]

It's been 4 weeks Paul. My install is clearly the best and I would like to know what I have won? :smile5:

A ticket to watch LUFC on a wednesday night in January........sad!

 

[Paul.M]

It's been 4 weeks Paul. My install is clearly the best and I would like to know what I have won? :smile5:

It is Test-Meter's comp, they will judge it after the weekend.

 

[Hawk81]

Has a winner been picked yet?

 

[Paul.M]

Has a winner been picked yet?

Not yet, leave it to the sponsors to look at all the photo's and make a decision. Lets face it, not an easy call.

 

[Former Sponsor TM]

Hi guys, time to reel this one in but I'd like to say what a pleasure it is to see the quality and diversity of the electrical installations submitted.

What this thread has proven is that there are still professional electricians out there which are viewing this forum, but are definitely not as vocal as perhaps we'd like them to be. It would be refreshing to see more pictures regardless of whether there's a carrot being dangled on a string.

With reference to the point that E54 picked up on Ollie's intrinsically safe installation - this certainly makes for more interesting forum content than the usual 'mates shed is 20m away, I'm a spark but can I spur from a socket'; you know what I'm getting at!

Because of the number and quality of uploads, we're going to supply a couple of extra prizes.

1st - Insulation Resistance Tester - Ollie133cup: For the reasons above and for a superb response to E54's feedback. Stick around on this forum, you're welcome and I'm sure the elders will agree.
2nd - 115 Digital Multimeter - HHD: A good quality installation. And from other forum content, I believe you're in this trade for the right reasons and not because you've been sold by a news paper advert - good on you.
3rd - Calbox Calibration Checkbox - Smity: Some tasty conduit work and a very neat consumer unit installation. Again, please stick around on the forum.

Please can the prize winners PM Paul with your details and I'll sort out sending him the above.

 

[Engineer54]

I was brought up with intrinsically safe circuits as an apprentice. They don’t make life easy.

Knowing that if you make a cock up you’ll be sat on a cloud with a harp makes you take that extra little bit of care.

And to make life even harder, as far as i know there is now no such thing as an ''intrinsically safe'' IR meter anymore. The faithful old Metrom intrinsically safe model that had been around for donkey's years and used in just about every hazardous installation in the western world and beyond, is now deemed unsafe by European standards!! But is still available for sale and use in the States, Canada, and just about everywhere else!! lol!!

 

[Ollie133cup]

Wow, big thanks to the guys at Test-Meter!

Never won anything before, really appreciate the comments , this is why our trade is the best!

Thanks again.

 

[smity]

Wow can't believe it, thanks to the very generous guys at Test - Meter.

It's nice to get great feedback and to win a prize too.

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