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  1. Rockingit

    Linux based file server system

    Probably right up @Dan 's street.... I'm thinking of ridding myself of all the various cloud storage accounts that seem to be the disease of online life and instead convert a machine into a network file server to sit on my home network, accessible from the outside world. Thirty years ago I...
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    How many devices?

    Not intended as a peeing contest, but genuinely wondering what the average house (OK, it's here so the average sparkies house...) has in terms of connected LAN/Wifi devices. I've just been messing about with ours (no thanks to Sky Business...) and counted up the active/recent devices on the...
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    20A conduit as cpc testing

    I made reference to this the other day on another thread and it (probably rightly) got lost in the replies... Is 20A testing for conduit used as cpc still a thing? I can find no obvious mention of it in 18th GN3 or the relevant parts of s5. I also get the general impression that most modern...
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    Really need to chat with one of the Scottish members who know their Parts B & F for Scotland

    And here's why.... My long suffering Aussie owns a place in Scotland that's been rented out ever since she foolishly decided to move down with me years ago. It's a beautiful place which is mostly why she/we've kept it on, part of a conversion of dwellings from an originally much larger complex...
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    Anyone here have links with Western Power training?

    Young girl (16 and great) who lives next door to me is trying really hard to find an electrical apprenticeship without much luck and I've just been chatting to her about it and she said she'd be really interested in overhead and HV work. Thought it might be worth me trying to do some...
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    L21 - 20 & L21- 30

    I can't remember - are L21-20's and L21-30's the same physical size and fitting? @Megawatt Cheers, R.
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    YORK - need a favour!

    Story short, I could really use 4 lengths / 12m of bog standard 20mm galv conduit c/w couplers for first thing on Tuesday, in York. And as it’s now Saturday and Monday is the bank holiday I’m short on options from wholesalers. Anybody in the area got any I can buy/scrounge/beer tokens...
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    Distances for supports - AWOL?

    I'm either going mad or blind, but I went looking in the brown book the other day to find the small bit where it gives minimum support spacings for cables, horizontally and vertically. Except, I couldn't find it anywhere. Not in S.5 (where you'd expect), not in the appendices such as 4 (also...
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    Recommendation for solar powered lighting, please

    So a family member wants to put an outdoor light or two on the end of a driveway, purely passive and solar powered. These used to be naff and not worth it, but I know technology has come on. Lots of units out there but which ones are actually worth the buying?!
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    Replacement EM downlight with charging light

    Hi all, a very long time I did a swanky grand designs type new build in the middle of nowhere, so in the middle of nowhere that it's a house with a sprinkler system and a variety of other life/building systems to cope with the fire brigade basically never finding it (was a condition of planning...
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    Range Rover steering column motors

    So this is the wiring schematic for a RR Vogue steering column - in itself nothing spectacular, just two motors making it go up/down and in/out. Except, looks to me that each motor has a PL and effectively a single SL coming from off a digital controller (it links in with memorised seat...
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    RJ45 connector types

    Have run out of stock of RJ45's and looking to get a bulk pack online, it's been a while since I've had to buy any and I'm mostly seeing packs of the 'pass-thru' type - does nobody actually use end-on snips anymore?? Also, do you need a specific crimper or can you still snip the ends off neatly...
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    Boiler running for DHW when not called

    I generally consider myself pretty up on heating systems but this has me slightly stumped… An otherwise very simple system boiler on what I assume is an bog standard S plan. What could make it call for DHW (tank stat registering cold after a full draw) OUTSIDE of the programmed hours and...
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    Caveat that this is from the Daily Fail... EV charger rage?!

    In fairness, dispite coming from the daily fail, this is entirely believable AND predictable...
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    A short story about when CPD won't work...

    Just thought I'd share this quick sobering story that happened to me a couple of weekends ago.... Overhead 230v lighting festoon, LED golf ball ES, zig-zagging it's way merrily down a street in Central London used for market stalls underneath. Not my installation! High vehicle managed to...
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    Are EATON Glasgow ISO’s double switched?

    On a new style Eaton Glasgow switched iso, does the mechanical isolator also act to isolate the OUTgoing side, in between the fuse carrier and the terminals? On a dead unit I’ve no continuity between them in the off position. If so it’s going to really spoil my hopes of a 5 min job…..
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    Weird and wonderful finds

    I often come across the weird (to U.K.) and wonderful on my travels. Last night in a venue in Romania I found these interesting specimens which another knowledge space has decided are DIN56905 from the 70's, common for Eastern Europe / Communist block. Basically a universally polarised...
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    Not electrical - suggestion for material

    I’ve spent the day completely stripping my ‘tip-run’ trailer back to the chassis, wire-brush, prime etc. I’ll rebuild the floor and sides with marine ply but it occurs to me that something with a laminate/acrylic kind of top would make for a much easier life/durability but apart from actually...
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    Replace FSU for a timer

    We need to empty our heating oil tank in order to re-level the base as the ground has slumped. The heating's off now anyway so it just leaves HW to deal with. Have inherited the manually switched immersion circuit on a FSU downstairs (tank is up in the loft) that so far has never been used and...
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    This could be an interesting time….

    That feeling of dread when you start a job…. Attempt to fix someone’s bodge of a CU move extension and there’s not much to play with!!!

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