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I have an old peoples home that I do work for, called out to black out. The main fuse blown, holder pretty well cooked. DNO have replaced cut out and installed a voltage recorder which is showing several spikes around meal times which are approaching or exceeding the 80A main fuse. Opinions...
Situation: A remote cabin with no mains supply available. Customer has bought a generator to supply small power (2 no. 2 gang sockets) but wants to use the genny to charge a car battery(ies) to run some lighting. I think LEDs so if anyone has any ideas of how I can achieve this I would be...
Am I having a brain fart?? I fitted 4no. two gang sockets fed from a 5A fuse in a shop for display lighting. The shop fitters arrived some time later and fitted a bunch of LED lights. Each driver states input as 1.2 amps and there are sixteen of them?? However each driver is only supplying...
Basically if you put in a new piece of cable however short it will require rcd protection unless surface fixed. Your minor works cert or EIC should make mention of shortfalls of the rest of the installation but any wor you do has to comply with the current regs.
Short term rentals= every year
Long term rentals=5 years max
It depends on the number of changes of tenancy, some of whom like to play about with the electrics whilst a long term tenant may treat the place with a little more respect. It should also be mandatory that any electrical work is done...
Re: help please on testing ground and neutral wire on lighting circuits with a multim
The earths may have been disconnected because there is a fault on the circuit, I've come across this before. If you reconnect all the earths be prepared for a bang! As said above you need the right test...
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