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    MC4 Connector/6mm Cable Query

    Hi Guys & Girls, Can anyone help. Im trying to find evidence that standard MC4's wont fit 6mm cable. If fitted it will result in Riso faults, loss of generation etc. Reason being using a standard MC4 your unable to tighten the gland up fully, if tightened to much it cross threads making the...
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    Problems with Series/ Parallel strings not adding ampage.

    Hi Guys, im hoping someone can help me. I have recently installed 3.2kw system for an offgrid job. The problem im getting is that im only ever seeing around 300 watts solar generation for the whole system. We have used 10 x Canadian Solar 320 watt panels Voc for the panel is 44.9 and the ISC IS...
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    MCS assessment tomoro can someone help me with a systematic????

    Hi guys,I have my MCS assessment tomoro and I cant get a systematic diagram of the install anywhere, I have searched the web asked solar program providers and some didn't even know what I was on about can some one help?? Its a 4kw system on 2 strings of 8, the panels are suntellite ZDNY-250C60...
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    MCS assessment Tomoro and i cant get a systematic for the install!!! Please help!!!!

    Hi guys,I have my MCS assessment tomoro and I cant get a systematic diagram of the install anywhere, I have searched the web asked solar program providers and some didn't even know what I was on about can some one help?? Its a 4kw system on 2 strings of 8, the panels are suntellite ZDNY-250C60...
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    commercial firealarm and emergency lighting

    Wondering if anyone can shed sum light on commissioning of commercial firealarms and lighting. Basically a trusted customer owns a nightclub and wants me to add additional call points and sensors that was picked up by the firemarshall, the problem i have is that im an niceic domestic installer...
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    Can i add another meter to a property????

    Can anyone help, my uncle has just asked me if i can add another meter to an existing meter, basically he owns a property with one single phase supply, then he converted his rather unusually big garage into a second home!!! now he is renting his property and is now living in his converted...
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    Thinking about going into domestic and commercial voltage optimisation, but not sure!

    I am thinking bout going into voltage optimisation, i think this technology went unnoticed domestically due to the solar being a biggy in the energy market and now with it dying off due to goverment tariff cuts i think if more people understood voltage optimisation, alot more people would have...
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    Can i do C&G LEVEL 3 because i have alot of experience or start from scratch???

    I am stuck in a rut!!! I am ex army and when i left i did a quick training course that saw me qualify has a domestic installer in about 5 months!!! The only thing is, is that ive been doing it for a while now and im finding it harder to get jobs with just 2391, eal vrq level 2 and 17th. I have...
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    R1+R2 confused???

    When doing PIR`s is it only continuity of final ring that you can find R1+R2??? If so how do you measure R2 for the report??? Im not quite sure!!! Im trying to make sense of it??? I know ZS is ZE+r1+r2 can anyone make sense of this for me!!!
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    ZS reading

    Can anyone tell me where i can find the maximum ZS readings for fuses like the ones on the back of the NICEIC booklet for minor works. Cant find them anywhere if there in BS7671 or OSG can anyone tell me the page has i cant find them anywhere!!! Thanks
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    Hot tub installations???

    Can you use a 20 amp rotary isolator for isolation of a hot tube??? The run is about 10 metres in 6mm SWA into a 20 amp isolator then straight into a 30ma RCD class 2 inclosure using a b type 20 amp mcb, there is also a B6 type mcb for a lighting circuit which is going into zone 1 which is not...
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    Rotary Isolator????

    Can you come off a 45amp rotary isolator to a fused spur to supply a feed for an out side light??? the Rotary isolator is supplying a hottub and is run in 6mm SWA witha 32amp rcbo??? Not sure if i can come off it or need to run a new feed!!! Any advice would be great help!!! Thanks!!
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    How do you wire a hot tub outside????

    Can anyone tell me how to install a hottub outside, just been up the dear mothers boyfriend has decided to wire it up himself and being a spark myself but without any experience with these things the way he`s on about wiring it up is gona caus him problems!!! The way he`s going to do it...
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    Help needed urgently!!! SWA repair!!!

    Can anyone help??? Im fitting a new lampost tomorrow and ive just seen the job, the 6mm SWA two core is split which i need to wire into the lampost which is coming out of the ground. Does anybody have any idea how i can cut the SWA before the split and add a new piece of cable to it, instead...
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    How do you connect an Automatic Door to a fire alarm panel?????

    Anyone know how to connect a bi parting automatic door to a fire alarm panel, i think i know where it connects into the panel but have no experience with these doors!!! I need to open the door when the fire alarm panel is in fire mode!!! The Board is a "Sabre"!!! Any help on this would be...

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