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    A complete house rewire where to start????

    Completely agree, but this a great way to get more experience. It's a four bedroom house, and most the rooms will be redecorated in some way, but I have to keep the house liveable, I can't rip gutt the place and start again,
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    A complete house rewire where to start????

    In the immortal words of cat Stevens, "the first step is the hardest", what's your order of doing things mr buzz
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    A complete house rewire where to start????

    ok so I know I'm gonna get a lot of abuse but I'm really interested to know how competent people work and the order they do things in. I've recently moved into a new house and the wiring is old and has been poorly done, lots of annoying features like not enough sockets, no point of isolation...
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    Porch light photo cell and pir and timed?

    would you recommend and particular Make? Thanks
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    Weird box in bedroom any ideas what it is

    It's was a Ariel signal booster/ splitter Thanks for all your help
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    Porch light photo cell and pir and timed?

    hi I need some advice, I have 2 elv down lights in the porch over the front door, what I want is them to come on automatically when it gets dark using a photo cell, but at midnight I want them to turn off and only come on via a pir sensor, I understand how to do one or the other but not both, I...
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    Weird box in bedroom any ideas what it is

    it's got three cables going into it and I has a fuse, possibly German, it sits in a cupboard in a bed room any ideas
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    How many sockets off a fused spur

    really simple one how many sockets can I run off a 13amp fused spur, I know I could look it up in the book, but I'm trying to win an argument in a pub?
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    To carify I will be using an inverter of some sort, but how do I get it to switch over automatically to mains supply if the voltage drops?
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    Sorry I meant UPS not PCU, stupid TLA's
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    Ok so the plan is: to power the the lighting circuit using a car battery via a pcu, that connected the the a/c via timer circuit, fit a diode to the battery pos, so not to waste electricity recharging the battery with a/c power supply. Is there a better way to click over to the ac power? I.e...
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    12v lighting for my house powered by my van

    hello all is this possible???? I drive a van around all day, I want to use the van to charge up a 110ah Agm battery, I then want to use this battery to power up a 12v led lighting circuit in my house. I also want to use the 240v supply as a back up to the same lighting circuit, with some sort...
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    increasing multimeter fuse rating

    I'd be interested to hear how you would go about testing glow plugs

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