Hi guys, I'm new to the forum.
To start off, I live in Glasgow and I am currently in my fourth year of my apprenticeship and my boss wants me to to sit my trade test.
Long story short,
During my first 2 and a half years I worked for a big company in Glasgow who where through the SJIB and...
Done a board change today.
Kitchen Sockets on RCD1, Up sockets on RCD2. Both rings.
When energised RCD1 tripped. When I removed the neutral of the Up sockets on RCD2, the Kitchen Ring & RCD1 did not trip. As soon as I put neutrals back in on RCD2 side. RCD1 trips.
Thought there may be a...
I'm not sure if this is a very good question to ask on an electricians forum as I guess one of the reasons you are on here is because you still enjoy discussing electrics.
But It would be interesting to know if you still enjoy doing the job? Whether you prefer domestic, commercial etc?
I get...
I'm a little confused as I have been off work for a while and not had that much electrical work on recently and am a bit of a noob if I'm honest.
The issue is that the rcd was tripping with all the breakers off. I took out the buzzbar next just to make sure. With the main breaker on the rcd...
Ian Pankhurst
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One of my competitors gave this advice to a potential client when asked how would he know what level a panel was working to.
Apparently the customer gets himself a light meter and a thermostat then goes up onto the roof and tests each panel himself individually.
Now why did I not think of...
Hi All,
I stumbled across this site whilst looking for help regarding old 5 amp lighting circuits and thought that this would be the perfect place to find the answers I've searched long and hard for...
We recently bought a property from 1929 and, having moved in, we've now discovered that...
Hi Folks
I am a plumber and have recently had to replace a couple of old pipes that had old bonding connected to them - black cable cross bonding the two pipes and then going off under the floor boards.
Normally I would simply replace this bonding. The issue here is that a section of the...
Yesterday morning the alarm in my house went off without reason, despite entering the code we couldn't get it to stop so my housemate (who had an interview later that day), pulled the panel out of the wall.
This stopped the alarm but now we need to reattach it. There are 7 wires, the red, blue...
B. Gas decided to a. relocate a customers meter and b. connect it to the gas main in plastic. The old meter was removed leaving a stub of pipe with the MPBC still connected. My view is that this is now an earth rod, auxiliary to the distributor earthing conductor.. Another guy looked at it and...
My Milwaukee has messed up since owning it December I am fuming
it still works but not properly, you let go of the trigger the drill used to stop straight away now when you let go of the trigger it spins slowly until it stops
question is who do I contact to get a replacement milwaukee or...
Evening all, I got called out to a job the other day were the customer has 2 x SB 1700's in the loft. The complaint was that the inverters cut out every so often, he knows this because he constantly monitors his sunny beam device. The error registered as unknown and to contact the installers...
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