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Those Transporters are hugely popular down here on the coast. Most have Kayak or surfboard on top "on the way to a job" :)
About as possible as anyone changing their monkey based avatar pictures to anything else….
Well thank you for a very interesting post, wasn't too long and got your own view over clearly. My views on electricians as a trade being a tough...
Make sure you have the emails from the council confirming the email info was NOT from them or endorsed by them.
This sniffs like fraud /...
Yes, heaters blaring out heat as we speak. Now I can get back to turning the thermostat down and telling my SO to put a jumper on!
Thanks again!
So are we finished at thirteen pages, hope that's not a sign. 😱
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I've brought them back from Europe for about the last 30 years, but now, as a result of Covid restrictions and now an extremely aged dog, I've...
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This is nearly as ridiculous as your other thread which went similarly to nine pages. Contact your landlord to resolve this issue.
Thread closed.
Replace the 3 (or 5) core cable with 4 (or 6) core, find an alternative internal connection point.
An alternative could be to use a pilot pin (as...
But how much time was spent / lost going and getting the bits you needed because you didn't have them on your van.
What is @M-B-Electrical-Services using now after a couple of years?
Thread was posted in 2022.
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Lol. A few months too late, and it was neither the contactor or a voltage drop.
If you go back through the thread you'll see the videos.
Do you still want help with this or have you fathomed it out already?
Looks very nice that.
Glad you got it sorted. All the best to Malaysia!!
Excellent review and guidance, just read the whole thread as my programmer has just set the same issues:
1) Fixed screen with set time
2)...
On the 4th day God created this sun:
I have been stung before and have learned my lesson
Now EVERY job (above £50) gets terms and conditions and a quote / estimate together with...
Thanks very much Brian and to everybody else who has contributed to helping me resolve this issue you gents are fantastic and really generous the...
As a TU rep I wish this was true ! Unfortunately with the telesales like attitude towards membership numbers they will definitely take you on...
Just bumping this one again.
The boiler broke down again, had my regular repair guy out, it was the thermostat that had gone, he came yesterday...
Am I missing something here ? Where is the live feed to the meter, I can see the neutrals in and out and the live out only.
You have a 3 phase cut...
All done forward and reversed for now .
Thank you .
Just need to help for theory now , I start assignment.
I understand quickly Cable size and...
It is yes, but it could all have developed from OUR old domestic 5/8 stuff used early and pre 60's...just folded steel with no chance of physical...
And the problems with most customer's are usually caused by the staff.
Irrespective of whether the load need an earth (CPC) or not, the earth wire in a plug should always be connected!
Some lights are...
Look for a good Independant Financial Advisor and take advice.
Everbody's circumstance is different, and want to do different things.
There are...
Never presume the fuse is okay.There werre a lot of recalls over fake fuses in domestic appliances.
Are there any power factor correction or motor start/run capacitors on the drier installation?
The golden rule is to stick with the current brand of PLC used in industrial facilities. [Standardize] Plant maintenance (the true end-user) will...
Worth bearing in mind this thread is over 5 years old.
Welcome to the forum though.
No it can't, the instructions on the boiler clearly state that external controls must be fed from terminal 2 at the boiler.
This kind of setup is...
Thank you Marconi, yes some good advice from people that I appreciate, to be able to so called, bounce off, things change so quickly in this...
The commercial unit is one that was being scrapped from work and the maintenance manager scrapped it my way :smile: Dad had it set up in the...
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A lot of the work I do is by word of mouth some of the people I have been doing work for in excess of 30 years and when it crops up that an...
I’m sure the smoke detector regs have changed since 15th December 2017. (When this thread was last active)
They do have NFPA 79 which would be their regional variant of the ISO standard
I'm suspicious of the binary pricing of the Cotherm thermostat in the marketplace - around £12 general outlets, around £30 from reputable...
Timbo you are correct in the joint box( wiring centre) and the neutral and linked live feed will go to pump from there, but there really needs to...
Has it's moments, certainly - Switzerland tomorrow. But...... like any job, it's mostly just damn hard work and long hours, you take the breaks...
Many thanks for this reply.
They're all crap imo. The reality in colleges up and down the country is they're understaffed, underfunded, full of people who don't care and the...
Just go slow and tell no one to speak as you concentrate.
Sooo the client has accepted that we don't want to be fraudulently taking electricity so that worry is out of the picture. But now basically the...
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If you have space for some DIN rail then a MCB for the control feed is an obvious route to protection, or an HRC fuse using something like this...
On the face of it, 20k sounds a bit steep for 20 lights and a few sockets moving. I can't tell you how many suspended ceilings I have worked in...
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We are talking about a purpose made wiring centre, with relay fitted in it, that is supplied as part of the pump plan kit. The installer doesn't...
Very good point and one I warn people around .Customers providing materials are stupid. Its the best "get out of jail card " a trades person has...
It's always good when we can prove beyond doubt the cause of a fault with our nice expensive test gear, but once in a while you'll be up against a...
At the end of the day... it all boils down to what you're happy doing. For some, simple local 'house bashing' and trading as a sole trader works...
The main reason for using a ring on a straight run of conduit in this manner is usually because the person designing the install has the mindset...
Having had some notifications on my thread, I’ve thought I’d update, for historical purposes again. Plus can’t sleep cos of a stinking cold.
Way...
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Regardless of the test results there is clear and obvious degradation of the cable so rectification us required.
Blindly accepting test results...
It is an exposed conductive part.
But it might not be in any way dangerous unless it also has the ability to introduce a voltage. So that means...
Maybe worth having a read.
https://www.electriciansforums.net/threads/y-plan-fault-damaging-programmer.169572/
Take advice from the HSE.
When I was on the electric board We had a pair of pillocks connect a housing estate to a very large genset, the n lead was in two parts and not...
£60 first hour if "booked" /£100 if urgent or after 6pm . Sundays the same . £40 per hour after that . BUT ....... Parking aint coming out of...
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