Professional Electrician Magazine

[Jay Sparks]

Just a quick question.

Do you read this magazine and is it helpful or informative? What do you find most helpful?
Do you read/take notice of any of the adverts?

Cheers

Jay

 

[Adam W]

I think it's a brilliant magazine. Articles on updates and interpretations of the regs, new products on the market, the pictures of bodgeups which people send in are always quite entertaining, and the best bit is it's free!
My only complaint would be that I can't always get to the wholesalers to pick up a copy, and they don't seem to like delivering them.

 

[Octopus]

Not sure.. Rarely have time to read it

 

[Jay Sparks]

I think it's a brilliant magazine. Articles on updates and interpretations of the regs, new products on the market, the pictures of bodgeups which people send in are always quite entertaining, and the best bit is it's free!
My only complaint would be that I can't always get to the wholesalers to pick up a copy, and they don't seem to like delivering them.

And if they do, it costs around £4.50.

My firm is thinking of advertising in it and I just wanted to see if it was popular with electricians.

 

[NDG Elecs]

I think it's alright, slightly more interesting than the NAPIT mag. A heck of a lot of ads in there, which I largely skip past unless something catches the eye. The bodges page I usually go to first for a laugh (or cry!). If I had to pay for it I wouldn't be willing to pay much! Also I am very sceptical about any reviews of products in it, as I assume they are not at all objective.

 

[Leesparkykent]

I always pick up a copy, read it all the way through including the adverts.

 

[Adam W]

And if they do, it costs around £4.50.

My firm is thinking of advertising in it and I just wanted to see if it was popular with electricians.

I'm pretty sure all the wholesalers I've used deliver for free if you've got an account.

I'd say it's popular with dedicated electricians, such as the kind who come on this forum, but there are a lot who just fell into the trade and do the bare minimum during work hours and don't even have enough interest in their trade to pick up a free magazine while they're waiting for their order.

What do your firm do? There doesn't seem like much point in an electrical contracting company advertising their services in a magazine for other electrical contractors.

 

[KWCFC]

And if they do, it costs around £4.50.

My firm is thinking of advertising in it and I just wanted to see if it was popular with electricians.

Why advertise to other electricians?

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[Jay Sparks]

I'm pretty sure all the wholesalers I've used deliver for free if you've got an account.

I'd say it's popular with dedicated electricians, such as the kind who come on this forum, but there are a lot who just fell into the trade and do the bare minimum during work hours and don't even have enough interest in their trade to pick up a free magazine while they're waiting for their order.

What do your firm do? There doesn't seem like much point in an electrical contracting company advertising their services in a magazine for other electrical contractors.

Electrical apprenticeships.

 

[hasel5]

Not read it in 4 years always on the counter but as far as I am concerned its a big sale sheet

 

[davesparks]

I read through it at the wholesalers while I'm waiting for the bloke behind the counter to go and get my stuff. I never take a copy though

 

[andyb]

I read through it at the wholesalers while I'm waiting for the bloke behind the counter to go and get my stuff. I never take a copy though

You could read War and Peace while waiting for the bloke behind the counter at my wholesaler.

 

[davesparks]

You could read War and Peace while waiting for the bloke behind the counter at my wholesaler.

There's one of them in the wholesaler I use.
If I'm in a hurry I'll just go round the back and get the stuff with him following behind making notes!

 

[Brightspark2]

Yeah I read it, usually when waiting in the wholesalers.

The best bit, as said, is the bodge ups.

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[Leesparkykent]

I like the bodge ups pages. A few times though I've noticed that they've printed a bodge up that isn't really one. It must be the spark that doesn't understand the regulations very well lol. The ones I've noticed are usually the ones that start with "discovered this during an EICR".

 

[Brightspark2]

I like the bodge ups pages. A few times though I've noticed that they've printed a bodge up that isn't really one. It must be the spark that doesn't understand the regulations very well lol. The ones I've noticed are usually the ones that start with "discovered this during an EICR".

Yeah you do see some weak ones, like someone shocked to see connector blocks above a cieling with no protection or an untidy consumer unit with 6 cables in. Scraping the barrel for the caught on camera page that, I want to see connections in ice cream tubs outside, snakes in consumer unit, consumer unit mounted upside down etc. Ha ha.

This post contains mild humour.
A warning before some moans at my posts for promoting non compliant and bad workmanship.



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