In South Africa, our job description was Master Installation Electrician, being able to install, maintain and certify explosive and inflammable installations.I believe in the US an apprentice becomes a journeyman when he qualifies, then becomes a master electrician once he has enough experience. I think the master electrician is similar to the JIB approved electrician grade.
I believe this mirrors the way trade apprenticeships worked in this country hundreds of years ago.
She looked great in the classroom too with her leathers, boots and little whipI preferred to be caned on the bum by Miss McSpanker.![]()
Polyphase is also an US term for Split Phase Ie 2 phases that’s what I was referring to.
I was 15th/16th Edition always referred it as “Live” things change.
Certainly I would refer to 110-0-110 style of supplies as "centre-tapped" and not polyphase - that (to me at least) implies phase angles other than 0/180 deg that you can get from a single phase supply & transformer.There is still obsolete 2 phase power being used in some areas of the US, Philadelphia is one city where it still exists, I have never seen it though. Polyphase refers to either 2 or 3 phase, it would not refer to what you call "split phase" but is considered single phase.
In London, black cab drivers are "Journeymen" if they don't own their cab... if they do own it, they're "Mushers"... no idea where any of that comes from.I still want to know what a master electrician is compared to a journeyman electrician...
can you be a master journeyman....
and what the heck is a pony panel
That is another thing, when we hear "black cab driver" in the UK we know it is a driver of a black cab (hackney carriage)!In London, black cab drivers are "Journeymen" if they don't own their cab... if they do own it, they're "Mushers"... no idea where any of that comes from.
I still want to know what a master electrician is compared to a journeyman electrician...
can you be a master journeyman....
and what the heck is a pony panel
Dave in the US you have to have 14,800 primary hours which means being superintendent on jobs then you have to take the masters test. We have guys and girls that can get low voltage license which is under 24vac,swimming pool license, limited license, intermediate license, and of course the Masters licenseI believe in the US an apprentice becomes a journeyman when he qualifies, then becomes a master electrician once he has enough experience. I think the master electrician is similar to the JIB approved electrician grade.
I believe this mirrors the way trade apprenticeships worked in this country hundreds of years ago.
Not any more, thank God! But you will occasionally see porcelain versions of the wire nuts in stuff that dates from the 60s or beforeWe don't use those turn things for connecting wires - we use connector block or Wagos
Marcus I don’t mean no harm but I have no idea what you are saying. If you are talking about lock out tag out a person could lose their job if they don’t follow the correct procedures.In large scale events, In the UK and EU we use a connector called power lock for our temporary installation supplies rated at 400A and 600A (single pole (5 connectors for 3 phase))
Having worked a lot in America you guys use cam lock connectors which like power lock are single pole and rated at 400A
I struggle to understand why they are still allowed & used as they have the potential to be very dangerous: For these reasons:
- Non-locking
- male to male adaptors
- T adaptors
- Any colour can be plugged into any other colour
- Very large exposed conductors easily touched when unplugged
Powerlock is: locking, will only allow phase to phase or earth to earth connections etc, and has no exposed conductors
I have even seen on TV shoots in the US where camlock is used on a public street and tee adaptors are used as joiners so the side outlet is not used leaving a live exposed conductor on a public pavement.
Although this isn’t a difference in domestic it still might be of interest,
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Marcus I don’t mean no harm but I have no idea what you are saying. If you are talking about lock out tag out a person could lose their job if they don’t follow the correct procedures.
No the "cam lock" is the make of connector.Marcus I don’t mean no harm but I have no idea what you are saying. If you are talking about lock out tag out a person could lose their job if they don’t follow the correct procedures.
in domestics, we generally use twin& earth cable. :
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hot wire we call line(brown) . neutral (Blue), and what you would call the ground wire, we call it "circuit protective conductor (cpc). OH, and due to some silly farts back in the 1970's all our cable is metric.
that's a start
rubbish. if i see a measurement in inches, i can visualise it. if in cm, then i need to work out 25.4 = 1", so,say, a 25 measurement is stated, but it does not tally. it's 10" less a bit. also,e.g. my tappets on my van engine should be 10 thou. i set at 0.25mm and they rattle.
Totally agree but it still happens.Maybe we’re at an advantage, us older members who learned about metric at school, but still had old imperial parents.
We were taught both, and the conversion processes.
You can see how imperial lengths came into being… an inch was the width of your thumb… a hand was basically the width of your hand… used for measuring horses… a foot being self explanatory,
In those days we weren’t building massive skyscrapers, sending rockets to the moon or looking at micron sized particles through a microscope…
We didn’t need that level of definition, so we didn’t use it.
If an engineer or an architect can’t tell the difference between feet and metres, then they’re in the wrong job…
That was just an example, think it’s just lazy source confirmation and editing to cover their arse writing the article. The nasa issue was factually correct. So too was a flight from canada and running out of fuel.I’ve had a quick read, and see an awful lot of “could be the reason” or “one theory” or whatever.
Nothing 100% to say that confusion between metric and imperial was definately THE only factor.
There’s one in there about Big Ben the bell being built…. (Whew!). Way before metric was taken up…
And of course, the media- even bbc- can embellish the truth somewhat to make their articles seem more important.
One thing I don't understand is why it's still almost impossible to find a tape measure in the UK that doesn't have imperial measurements on it alongside the metric ones, some 50+ years after we 'went metric'. A tape measure that you can't use either way up dives me nuts.