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  1. B

    Double Switch Help

    Hi Guys, Mind has drawn a complete blank I've been out of electrics for quite a while now and i'm going to be putting some Ceiling Downlights in my bedroom and was just wondering on the wiring; Would the attached diagram be correct? I have a ceiling rose as my main light, So if I was to loop...
  2. C

    double pole switch on a bathroom selv fan

    Just bought a xpelair 12v humidistat 100mm fan to go in zone 1 and reading instructions it asks for a d/p switch. Is that the regs ? I assumed it could be wired as normal i.e. live from light switch and perm live etc .. having looked into it a bit more it seems i could go 230 v if rcd protected...
  3. T

    Class 2 double insulated shaver socket??

    Anyone know of a bathroom suitable shaver socket that doesn't require an earth? I know the safety transformer load side doesn't need earthing, but all the ones I've come across, even the plastic ones, still have an earthing terminal presumably to earth the supply side (metal components within...
  4. J

    Double oven thermostat problem?

    Hi all, hopefully someone can help. I have a 2 year old Neff u14m62n0gb double oven. Last week it tripped the house out when using the main oven. On investigation the bottom element spade connector had become welded to the chassis, it had got free from its location tabs and come into contact...
  5. R

    Spurring off a ring

    Hi, I only have 1 socket in one my rooms but would like to install 2 more double sockets, the kitchen backs onto the room and i thinking about spurring of the one of the sockets in the kitchen, i was going to install fused spur (fused 13A) then off the load side install 2 double sockets. Is...
  6. M

    Fixings for double plasterboard stud walls

    Hi.Im a new apprentice electrician and was after some advice on fixings please!? I today's had to fit an emergency exit sign in stud wall but it had double layered plasterboard. I thought plasterboard fixings(pig tails) would work but they never gripped and kept spinning out! Am I using wrong...
  7. Edtwozeronine

    Light switch question

    I was on a site yesterday doing work experience. The head honcho was wiring in a double switch that seemed to have 2 commons, 2 L1s and 2 L2s. There were 6 terminations mostly in brown 2 browns with brown tape (I assume the switch lives?) And one was grey. Apart from the taped browns how did...
  8. T

    Help with replacing a double light switch - don't understand the wires

    Hello All, Hoping someone could help me with a problem I have trying to change a light switch. The switch starting feeling a bit 'loose' and didn't click anymore. Then it reached the point when the power would trip out downstairs every time I tried to use the switch. I thought it would be a...
  9. B

    Loft light question

    Just finished a small conversion in the loft and been running an extension lead up to a light. I'm looking to put a switched light in there and just want to check my thinking is right. I put a light in the loft running a new wire down to the bedroom switch that is currently a single switch. I...
  10. kingeri

    2.5mm on 32A MCB

    Just wondering what folks would do if you came across this on your travels. 4mm radial sockets circuit, on 32A MCB. Two branches from the CU, one supplying 6 double sockets, wired entirely in 4mm, so fine. The other branch consists of a 1m run of 4mm to a double socket, then around 5m in 2.5mm...
  11. A

    Old Double Insulated Appliances

    I am looking at a receiver/amplifier that was manufactured in the mid 1970s. It has a very solid all metal case. It is powered by a mains lead that has only two conductors, active and neutral. It does not have any Class II notation or symbol anywhere on the case. I am wondering whether the...

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