Recent content by mnbs 4x4

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    Best quality electrican tools.....

    what ever happened to a good pair of Elliot Lucas pliers and snips, a set of footprints and a Yankee , and almost all drivers were Stanley , stepping back in time :)
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    DOL starter / contactor

    Maybe a float switch
  3. M

    Help with ring main please

    neutral and earth crossed at the socket
  4. M

    Installing 2 swa’s

    good old crampets
  5. M

    Live pipework problem

    Any of the copper pipe been replaced with pvc
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    Installing 2 swa’s

    Is it possible for you to run 1 x steel conduit or PVC if the enviroment suits, then wire both circuits in singles. Just a thought
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    Lathe & plaster walls

    why not just use MK flange boxes, fitted hundreds of them with out a problem using 1" 1/2 6's. Cut the plaster out with a stanley knife then carefully cut the lath out.
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    400v at Lights

    I had the exact same thing many years ago, same voltages at fittings and switches as you describe ,which destroyed every ballast on the board. Mine was an Independant lighting TP and N DB serving corridor, staircase lighting etc. It turned out that the old MEM switchfuse supplying th DB had a...
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    can anyone help with flourescent light fixings?

    T-Grid Twist Clips try these cheers
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    extending cat 6

    Get yourself a Krone backmount or profile frame and use 3 krone cat 6 highband modules , each module takes 2 cables and will maintain the cable performance. Doing it this way is classed as a consolidation point and perfectly acceptable. A lot of large office fit outs use CP's dotted around with...
  11. M

    Fault has stumped me!!

    is it possible that the lighting neutrals are crossed at the rcbo's , are the neutrals easily traced back at the board to match the feeds to double check
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    80 RJ45's installation question...

    leave plenty of spare , a nice maintenance loop in the server room for any changes like future cab upgrades relocations etc, not nice doing a consolidation joint on lots of cables if short in the future. same at the floor boxes , alot of these lift out tiles can get lifted out and relocated to...
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    CAT 7 problems

    after testing cat 6 have you changed from class E to class F and reset the referance, just a thought , have you selected cat7 as well as class F and selected the correct NVP %, Siemon would ask us to change the NVP to 68% when testing their cat6 cable. Another thought could be other contractors...
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    Advice needed - Removing socket outlets in a conduit system

    would it be a possibility to chase in a box and fit a floor socket , the ones with the hinged metal flap or would that be to much in the way .
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    Banjo

    If the pyro gland back nut isn't tightened up onto the olive then a banjo/frying pan isn't going to do much. Earth tail pots aren't really needed unless glanding into plastic, geez bare pyro now that takes me back.

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