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  1. truckster

    Time to upgrade supply?

    Hi I have an old peoples home that I do work for, called out to black out. The main fuse blown, holder pretty well cooked. DNO have replaced cut out and installed a voltage recorder which is showing several spikes around meal times which are approaching or exceeding the 80A main fuse. Opinions...
  2. truckster

    Running LED lighting off a car battery Ideas needed

    Situation: A remote cabin with no mains supply available. Customer has bought a generator to supply small power (2 no. 2 gang sockets) but wants to use the genny to charge a car battery(ies) to run some lighting. I think LEDs so if anyone has any ideas of how I can achieve this I would be...
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    Led drivers brain fart

    Am I having a brain fart?? I fitted 4no. two gang sockets fed from a 5A fuse in a shop for display lighting. The shop fitters arrived some time later and fitted a bunch of LED lights. Each driver states input as 1.2 amps and there are sixteen of them?? However each driver is only supplying...
  4. truckster

    Puzzler Energy Meter

    My missus has got one of those energy monitors, clamp round the tail and table top gizmo. When there is virtually nothing on, a computer maybe and the fridge/freezer etc it is reading quite high. The question is do these things read the power going out from the PV panels to the grid? I am a...
  5. truckster

    Sole Trader Accounts Software-Recommendations?

    Looking for a reasonable bookkeeping software package. Had a look at QuicBooks Intuit for £99/269 but seems a bit pricey for what is a fairly simple set of accounts. Anyone got a recommendation?
  6. truckster

    Metrel M13000

    Anyone had experience of this tester? Dubious of the price, is it cheap crap or value for money?
  7. truckster

    New Twist n An Old Problem

    We have all come across the juction box with cpc's connected on the outside but I found this beauty today. A two switch arrangement in a JB wired with T&E using the cpc as a switch wire which was the joined outside the box, at least they sleeved one side of it! As you can see it was stuffed in...
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  8. truckster

    Maintainance free JB's e.g. Ashley J803

    Am I right in thinking that these forms of JB's do not require to be accessible as per BS EN 60670-22?

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