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    Solar PV Slates

    Has anyone had experience of PV slates / tiles? We have a customer who likes the idea:banghead:
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    Smoke Alarm's

    Is it pretty common practice these days to put smoke alarms on their own circuit when rewiring a domestic property ? If so, does it appear in the regs as good practise because I've always put them on the end of a lighting circuit due to the fact that to the untrained. If there's no lights on...
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    Engineering real results!! New career skills

    A warning to anyone out there who is thinking of parting with at least £6000 of their hard earned savings! DON'T!!! I completed the ****e 'Domestic Installers' course with NCS and the promises are not worth the crap you endure for your so called tuition! It is a JOKE! Email me at **removed** for...
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    NICEIC Certification Scheme NICEIC Blackmail

    I'm getting really fed up hearing from councils/customers/builders etc that they are unwilling to use me as I am not NICEIC registers. These people don't even know what it means to be NIC registered they all seem to be under the impression that if you are not registered you should not be...
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    competent person scheme

    Just wondering has anyone on here ever been refused membership to any of the scheme providers? If you have what was it you failed on or got asked to provide further evidence of?
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    DNO Supply cable

    Working on a job today supplying power from a garage to a powered sliding gate. When digging a trench I have come across the DNO cable only dug in about 6-8" in the ground with no warnings or nothing else on it. It comes from the nearest telegraph pole and is cleated to the side before going...
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    solar quote

    i have been quoted £6395 for 16 antaris p6 polly panels(12 year warrenty) kaco powador inverter(10 year warrenty) both german. £6500 if i take i boost at the same time. any comments on the quality of the panels /inverter or i boost. i live in iv12 post code cheers
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    solar panals

    Hi All Im a new member Just had solar panals fitted to roof and within 48 hours both electric shower and wahing machine gone faulty with sparks firing about in washer drum . I this a coincidence or could solar panals have caused this as both blew within mins of each other . Any advice would...
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    Designing photovoltaic systems

    Any advice on software for doing this. I have a trial of PV*SOL, but before I invest too much time and money I want to be reasonably sure its going to be the right one. I wounder how big the user base might be and also what training is available. How long do you think it might take to become...
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    British gas etelephone interview

    Hi I have a telephone interview for British gas this Thursday for an electricians job with themselves it has been said I will be asked 6 technical questions from the regs book any ideas on what they will ask if anyone has had this interview would be so grateful for a reply as really want this...
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    schemes

    Recently there's been a lot of talk about scheme registration,and the need to be a scheme member to do part P work,now while a lot of sparks disagree with the way that the schemes infer that the only sparks that do a good job are scheme members,which incidentally we know not to be the case as...
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    Show us your website!

    Just saw a thread about someone wanting critique on there website and saw how many pages long and the mayhem it caused lol. So a thought it would be a good idea if everyone who has a website for their business post the link and let others critique it. Get posting !
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    Recc website link

    Did you know you have to display the RECC logo on your website and it needs to hyper link to their website ? if you do not do this then you do not remain RECC compliant!!! I had this today , I told RECC I will remove the logo but the said I must show the logo and hyperlink it to them…...
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    Solaredge - Waste of Money

    Next week we are removing a solar edge system that has been on test for just over a year alongside an SMA inverter with an identical system. The Solar edge solution promises "25% more energy" yet delivers less and costs more. Thankfully we have none of this product out with our customer...
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    voltage testers

    Can anyone recommend a voltage tester.Mine are starting to show their age.

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