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    Odd E.V. home charger question

    Install a camera to check if someone else is using the charger
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    VW Passat 2012 TPMS light on

    Only come across 2 types of TPMS, rolling diameter using wheel sensors through ABS module and individual tyre pressure sensors on the wheels (rather inside the wheel rims), you have ruled out pressure sensors via the tyre shop so it only leaves the former. If your car actually can display the...
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    VW Passat 2012 TPMS light on

    cars of that age inc, VW, Audi, BMW use calculated rolling diameter to detect a flat tyre. They can typically throw a fault when changing tyres for new or putting winters on. There is a reset button when this occurs which enables the TPMS function to re-calculate the new setup. In the Polo for...
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    Help re new 3ph 200KVA supply CT meter provision

    I hope this is not a trend by our energy companies....... a 200KVA supply is pretty standard for larger commercial . Are you sure you are talking to the right part of the energy suppliers, i.e. Larger Business customers, not Domestic./small commercial as , as far as i am aware meters above 100A...
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    Getting very difficult to use this place!

    Using Chrome on Win10 laptop, ads obscure posts, so cannot read them, have turned adblocker back on and its better.
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    EICR - Full rewire recommended

    Do we now include plug tops and flexes in a EICR, thought that was for PAT ?
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    UK 3rd Party Testing

    I have 3rd part signed off, i think, twice. Once for an apprentice who was doing his own place, i followed NAPITs rules to the letter, checking cable runs before plastering etc and asked him not to terminate at the board end and leave all accessories unscrewed. It worked out quite well, but it...
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    Any Autosparks in the room ??

    I use an electronic one for motorsport, it has a giant mosfet which cuts the main earth connection. Sadly i had to restart the engine in a rush and had 100A of accessories running at the same time and it blew up, lol The one you have looked at will be fine, as long as you dont do what i did..... :)
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    How to disable a burglar alarm

    Here is what i do in the absence of codes and the like. 1. Get ladder in position for Bell, check what tool is required to open bell box. Dont touch bell box yet. 2. Cut power to alarm panel, this may make bell sound straight away if battery is dead inside panel. 3. Open panel and remove lead...
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    Any Autosparks in the room ??

    The standard battery isolator with the red toggle handle are designed for 100A continuous (check the specs) and are used in motorsport, the starting current is OK for short periods.
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    UK Amtech/Trimble - Excessive Earth Loop Impedance on SWA cables

    Definitely a call to Trimble on that one. At least if it gets one calculation correct, as mentioned above you can double check it against a manual calculation, then hopefully further calcs will be good....
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    Should this fitting be bonded to earth

    The manufacturer has stuck a label on the baseplate, its clear to see. I don't know what instructions came with the fitting or what was written on the outside of the box it came in. Regardless of the stud, i would have considered it a class 2 fitting. Yes, i know i have said i would have used...
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    Should this fitting be bonded to earth

    I dont know, we have the manufacturer saying its a Class 2 fitting, we have a label stuck to the base showing a class 2 fitting, i have not seen the driver but that too is "likely" to show a class 2 device, it may even say class 2 on the box the lamp came in. The only evidence it may be a class...
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    Should this fitting be bonded to earth

    I am trying to understand the manufacturers position. They must know electricians dont really want to run a supply to a lamp without an earth as this will cause issues down the line. So an earth needs to go somewhere. The electrician used a wago and TBH it is one way of doing it, so as to...
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    Adverts making the forum unusable.

    Using Chrome with Ad Block extension, had an issue with processor going mental, but that has stopped, sadly another site i use wont work if i have ad block enabled so have to switch it on and off.

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