electric

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    External Electric Sockets

    We are planning to have external electrical sockets fitted in our courtyard patio area. We would like to have flush sockets installed so that they are not protruding from the wall, where people might bang their legs on them. Our electrician says that he has never come across them before and...
  2. S

    How to wire cat5e wire to commercial electric jack

    The wire reads 03474 f.t south wire saber link cat5e utp 4pr 24awg (ul) c (ul) cmr verified (ul) cat5e e198892 0822-h cat5e The jack I am using is commercial electrics #226 344 It contains an Ethernet port and a coaxial Connection I am including the wiring color code that is in the...
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    Can anyone tell me please how to wire 3. 8PIN relays?

    Can anyone please tell me how to wire 3 8Pin relays together? Those 3 relays are for access control controlling the doors, so when the fire alarm triggered will disenergized those 3 relays and unlock the doors. Thanks
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    Electric UFH tripping RCD

    Hi all, i'm a home owner just looking for some advice. Over Christmas the RCD on a split panel fuse box kept tripping. We narrowed this down to the master bathroom underfloor heating. The buildout for the loft including the master bathroom is about two years old, the UFH is under tiles. I think...
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    UK Pre pay electric meter fitting cost

    Can somebody give me a rough idea on the labour cost (and timescale) of having an old coin operated electric meter replaced with a digital pre pay meter, not the card type installed by electricity suppliers but the pre pay ones available to buy.
  6. littlespark

    Blank electric meter

    Any idea what might be wrong with this? Did an EICR today, vacant flat. There was a power cut last month, and when power came back, the meter was like this. The tenant had no idea how much credit he had in it. He’s moved on now, and the LL needs to sort it out. Is it a case of just getting...
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    Heating switches

    Hi there I have an electrical water heater. It has two switches one main immersion one boost. The main one has gone hot and won't work :( can I just use the boost? Also it has a 13a plug in the main is that enough? Is that why its seized up? It went very hot beforehand:( ☹
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    Issue with Aqualisa electric shower

    Hi all, hoping someone can help! We recently bought a house with an Aqualisa Lumi electric shower, which has suddenly stopped working. When we turn it on it takes a few seconds to starting trickling, then the unit starts making a whooshing sound (like the sound a games console makes when it’s...
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    Open source thermostat for electric underfloor heating?

    I'm getting started on rehabbing my house and I want to install an electric underfloor heating system that I can eventually control through an open source home automation system. As I understand it, most thermostats are not compatible with electric underfloor heating because for electric...
  10. K

    Brand new Cooker trips electric

    Hi all, I've just brought a brand new electric cooker to replace my old electric cooker. It works fine, I can cook for as long as I want with no problems at all until about 10 minutes or so after I turn it off. This applies to both ovens and the grill. It seems related to the fan/s as it...
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    Why does my electric keeps tripping

    Hi, I'm hoping you can help me as I it's driving me insane! So my electric keeps tripping when I plug my dryer in, now I know it's not a faulty dryer because it's the 3rd we've tried and it worked perfectly fine at a friend's for a week. My partner plugged a drill in last night and it tripped...
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    Advice for electric oven

    I want to replace a 2.4 k w oven which is connected to main circuit. The wiring is old and probably needs replacing which I don't want to do. Can I replace with a 2.7 k w oven or should it be like for like? Thanks very much in advance.

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