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  1. C

    Lights over a sink - commercial bar

    I'm not trade. Q about light fittings and water. Our village hall has a bar, with a sink for glass washing. We want to put a light above the sink, and our electrician will do this together with some other work, and he asked us to choose a light fitting. Now being a committee, something might...
  2. K

    External Lights through timer and contactor via photocell

    Hello all, I know this is very simple but I would like some advice please. I am installing a new circuit to feed 5 external floodlights. It is to be controlled by a digital timer with volt free contacts through a 2 pole contactor wired with the existing photocell which also does a couple...
  3. C

    Toyota hiace multiple electrical issues

    Hi, I have multiple electrical issues with the hiace I just bought (not sure if they are related). The fan (AC) is not working as well as the hazard and reverse lights and the honk. It looks like all fuses are good. Any advices on how to tackle those issues would be greatly appreciated. Cheers
  4. I

    Flickering LED room lights in a new house my son is having built.

    My son is having a new house built. The electrical wiring is almost complete but a problem has been detected. Some of the rooms LED lights flicker when lights in other rooms on other circuits are switched on or off. His electrician has not been able to find the problem. Some lights are on...
  5. The apprentice

    Fire rated down lights ?

    Hi there fire rated down lights in a dropped false ceiling with no insulation and 2.5 watt LED lamps in cladding in kitchen with room space above not part of bs7671 but coding opinions if we do for safety ?
  6. M

    How to connect lights to one switch?

    Hi Folks, My unfinished basement has five light bulbs hanging from the ceiling with pull strings to turn each one on. I would like to add a switch somewhere so I can turn on all five with the one switch. I looked at all of the bulbs and they are all connected together, in series. Or at least a...
  7. R

    Flickering lights on separate circuits

    Evening All, Strange one so after a bit of advice. Got called to a customer this evening who had their boiler repaired after the circuit board got fried supposedly after a power cut when the supply was restored. They were told they needed a switch fused spur fitted as there was no way of...
  8. T

    Lights not turning ofg

    Hello my daughter just changed 6 high hat bulbs to LED’s and now they won’t turn off. She said it’s controlled with a single dimmer switch. Am I correct in telling her to replace with an LED compatible dimmer switch first? Aside from the bulbs nothing else has been change. Thanks!
  9. D

    UK LED Batten Lights to Mains Socket?

    Hello, I’m boarding out my loft for storage and I’d like some decent lighting up there rather than loft lights I’m currently using. I purchased some LED batten lights that my cousin, who is a qualified electrician, said he will come and wire in. He’s good at what he does, he’s sadly just lazy...
  10. B

    Is 0.75mm Flex in conduit behind tiles and tile backer sufficient for led lights (6w) or Fan (4w)?

    Hello to all. I know now that 1mm T&E would be better for lights, but legally is 0.75mm Flex in conduit behind tiles and tile backer sufficient for led lights (6w) or Extractor Fan (4w)? 1 out of 3 quoting electricians said that those need to be replaced. Is it really that bad? Looking at the...
  11. R

    Low voltage light mystery

    I have undercabinet lights that are low voltage. They work xenon pucks just fine. I want to convert to low voltage LEDS. Supposedly these are 12V DC but when I hook 12V DC LED pucks up, they don't work. There is a switch to turn these on that is 120 volts. Somewhere buried behind the wall...
  12. littlespark

    Heights of wall lights on a staircase

    I’ll see if I can describe this without making a diagram. Tomorrows job is wiring and fitting wall lights at my mother in laws, up the staircase. There’s a U shaped stair, with a half landing. So 5 or 6 steps up, turn around, another 5 or 6 up. Top landing is an L shape around the open stair…...
  13. M

    Wardrobe door sensor & LED lights

    Next week I'm starting to build a few built-in wardrobes for the bedrooms and I've hit a brick wall on the lightning element. Normally I run 1.5mm 2-core from a junction box to the different LED strip light locations, and then from the junction box to the LED driver and from there to a...
  14. A

    LED lights flickering and going out

    Hi all, just joined the forum, have a weird problem, wondering if I could get some ideas. We built our house about 6 years ago. The downstairs was professionally wired, I wired the upstairs, when I finished that part of the house. All our ceiling lights are LED's. A while back, one of the...
  15. B

    Quoizel exterior lights won't stay on, intermittent failures and flickering throughout circuit

    Hello and thank you in advance for your time in helping me troubleshoot my lights. I've added a video to show what my lights are doing. I have 4 Quoizel WVR8406EK lights on the front of my house and 2 in the back. They will intermittently go out. However I can unscrew the bulb and screw...
  16. F

    Adding additional flood / security lights - wiring options

    Hi I have an existing flood light, powered via a three core & earth (1.5mm) and it's switched. I want to add two more lights, one for the side and one for the front. I will be using PVC conduit and junction boxes to run the cables. Out of the two plans, which is the better one? One cable out...
  17. P

    EICR fail: No RCD Protection for lights etc.

    I am a landlord and my managing estate agent just recently organised an electrician to carry out EICR. Came back as unsatisfactory, no RCD protection on: lights, smoke alarm, door bell and immersion heater. There is RCD protection on sockets and cooker. Electrician suggests changing the...
  18. J

    LED ceiling lights - I'm baffled

    The customer has five small LED ceiling lights in their bathroom. Some of the lights stopped working. A previous electrician came and 'did some work' but could not resolve the matter. I've taken a look, and three lights have been removed. I assume these were the broken ones, and he took them to...
  19. M

    Flickering Lights Issue

    Hi Guys Looking to see if anyone has had the same issues. I went to a tennanted property last year where the house lights were flickering and all circuits were playing up and tripping the Board protected by 1 very old RCD which was the cause of the issue. I changed the Board to a new RCBO...
  20. J

    2x motion sensor wall lights on one switch

    On either side of my front door is a motion sensor wall light - it looks like both lights operate from one light switch inside the house. The problem is only one of the sensor lights is responding to movement and switching on and off. The other light does not light up but clearly there is power...

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