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    Fitting a small 'garage' DB in external meter cabinet

    Just been to look at a hot tub job, and the C.U. is built into the kitchen cabinets, with the tails running up the inside of the cavity wall from the external meter cabinet. To save ripping their kitchen to pieces I'd like to just use Henley blocks to install a new small CU and tails. I am...
    • chronyx
    • Thread
    • cabinet external fitting garage meter small
    • Replies: 34
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  2. B

    External connectors

    Hey all I've was asked to look at some faulty external lights so after some investigation I discovered that they had been poorly installed, basically the fittings were never sealed correctly, compression glands not tight and water ingress has occurred. I'm going to remove the fittings, dry them...
  3. H

    'Light' sensor for external lights

    Can you get a sensor that will only allow external lights to be switched on when the light level drops below a certain amount? Thanks!
    • hollerz
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    • external light lighting lights sensor
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  4. S

    external lighting

    hello lads , my querie is i have 10 external 500w sodium lights to fit outside a garage building rougley 50 m x 30 m long and i mainly work on house rewires so any help would be gratefully accepted in helping me with materials i need to order as the owner tells me he would like them on a time...
  5. I

    Wiring a socket to an external switch then spurring to a socket

    I have an electrical socket in the kitchen which feeds around 10 powerful garden lights around the garden all installed by a qualified electrician. I want to change the cable from that kitchen socket feeding it to a double external light switch first which would then either switch on the garden...
  6. S

    External Wall Insulation

    Some of our customers' properties need this and I've had an interest in it for a few years although not much time to follow it up since Green Deal. I've currently got 3 customers who would really benefit from EWI so I've been looking for prices with the face saving new 6k grants. Cheapest I...
  7. E

    External 3 phase sockets (pme supply)

    I have been asked to wire in 4x 16a 3p+N+e rcd protected sockets (rcd's fitted within each socket), to be externally mounted in a car park to connect in refrigerated vans overnight, to be used by competent operatives. My main question is the earthing arrangement. I'm sure I should run the...
  8. S

    PME & external scaffold

    Spent most of the day arguing with UKPN and EDF over a flaming scaffold. Have had this day planned for months for new 400A PME supply to go on. Bloke arrives this morning pulls up in his van and says "that can't be turned on because you have a scaffold round the building". Asked him why and his...
    • Sintra
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    • external pme scaffold
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Electrician Talk
  9. D

    sockets on external wall

    Hi everyone. Can a domestic socket be located in for example a bedroom on the external wall. My father was a spark back in the 60's and 70's and taught me his trade and I can distinctly remember him saying you never put a socket on the external wall. Now I'm planning a rewire of my house on...
    • dannysmith
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    • built external socket sockets those wall walls
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: DIY Electrical Advice
  10. J

    Adding an external rcd to bs 3036 board

    Hi All, My sister is having a new kitchen fitted soon and presently has an old wylex bs 3036 board with semi-enclosed re-wirable fuses. I know that the builders/kitchen fitters will probably take the ring circuit from one of the 3036 fuses for the kitchen and the run it to an external RCD (ive...
    • Jabbajaws
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    • adding board external rcd
    • Replies: 33
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  11. A

    Calculating external R1 & R2

    Is there any way of calculating the r2 and r1 values of Ze for touch voltage calculations many thanks
  12. D

    External lighting wiring

    I have external lights switched through a contactor. I need to put in an override switch and they need come on via a photocell and be switched off by a time clock. how do I wire it? - - - Updated - - - The override is to override the lights on by the way
  13. T

    external led lighting

    hi guys, first post so be kind :) i have the job of illuminating a large building that is 6 floors from the outside. at present there are flood lights being used to light up the signage but it doesn't illuminate all the way to the top of the sign as they are vertical (and possibly not angled...
    • Thornton-IS
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    • building external flood led lighting lights
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  14. I

    fixing heavy external light fittings to false celing

    screw self tapaers into frame than chain? or with out
    • irn-brue
    • Thread
    • external false fittings fixing heavy light light fittings
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  15. S

    Ze external earth loop impedance

    Hi I've done a Ze test on a TNS system and it's come back as 0.14 ohms is this reading ok as the max is 0.8 is there not a min amount you can have thanks
  16. polo1

    External lighting - am I missing something?

    Situation - local rugby club. Clubhouse has 18 external bulkhead (Phillips) fittings each using 1 G23, 11w lamp; split into two circuits each on 6amp B type mcbs. Both circuits operate via a contactor & photocell. Problem - one circuit mcb keeps tripping, holds for three/four evenings...
  17. B

    external temporary lighting

    looking at putting out some external Christmas lighting. I have bought 2 rcd plugs, 2 twinsockets with weatherproof housing boxes. I know its a silly question but as I say its temporary lighting and im trying to be as safe as possible and its been a good few years since I was last at school thus...
  18. 1Justin

    External PMR to horticulture, - back-up earth electrode or not?

    I have been asked to do some maintenance for a small co-operative horticulture set-up. They operate on a shoe-string, and have a couple of hectares of land in a low-lying flat area. The DNO has given them a PMR system with a service head and meter in nearby woodland. (Ze 0.23). I find a 30mA...
  19. P

    External Meter tails Help

    Hi Guys went to look at a friends house he has just bought, at some point the CU has been moved from just behind DNO board to 6 meters away using 10mm T&E as a temp feed loose cliped inside. The Outside cabinet has the meter head in with 25mm tails going to an isolater switch and the temp feed...
  20. G

    External earth fault loop impedance Ze

    ​Can any one explains what are the three methods to find External earth fault loop impedance Ze please?

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