Has anyone used one of these and know if it's any good? Was thinking of getting the bare drill as have lots of makita 18v gear and batteries.
Makita 36v Cordless Lithium-Ion Tools - Exclusive from Toolstop
So adding a couple of circuits to the garage/workshop (socket radial either side) but having an issue locating some 20A MK C Type RCBOs at a decent non RRP price (I ain't paying £30 odd quid each - yes for my own garage I'm a cheap git :P ) (sockets are for compressor / other stuff with decent...
I had a panel install done about 18 months ago and i stupidly said it was ok for them to cover the window (only access point to the roof from indoors), but now i know i have made a mistake and I'm looking for a rough ball park figure for the 6 panels to be moved probably about 1m along to enable...
Hello, I have 236 1 and 2 and wish to return to doing domestic work, after a gap of about 10 years. I realise I need to do a 17th course, but what about testing? has 2391 been replaced? From what I can see a regs course is £500, and I'm guessing a test course would be the same? Then I need to...
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Check this out: FLIR ONE? personal thermal imager by FLIR® - See the Heat°
I think im going to get one for the hell of it, its only a couple of hundred and looks cool, ok ill never use it, but how cool is it eh!
Morning all. I have a problem on a Job were working on at the moment. I have a small toilet area fitted with a number of LED lights and an in line timer fan. They are both controlled from a 2 wire ceiling PIR. The problem is once the lights switch on initially the fan comes on also but once the...
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I'm looking to make a small grid tie system for my home and not sure what panel/s to get. I'm looking at only less than 300watts at the moment purely as that will cover my house during the working day and during the night i'll turn the switch and power the house at night via a battery...
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Please correct me if I'm wrong I was thought that an RCD should trip when you come In contact with a live conductor. Now I have had 2 electric shocks in the last 3 months and on both occasions and the RCD did not trip.The RCD was tested and passed.
Any ideas ?
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I need a replacement push button MEM MCB 45A push button fuse. Can anyone help? Please let me know if you have one for sale or know where to source one. Here are a few pics to help identify it.
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I'm trying to find a college that offers the 2365 level 3 part time, ideally evenings.
I completed level two but am due to move from North West to South East London/Kent.
Could anyone recommend somewhere in that region? I've emailed City & Guilds and tried Google.
Just discovered the old wiring for the immersion heater. We have very few sockets in old victorian house. The immersion heater wiring was left in a terminal block wrapped up in masking tape!
I changed the old wylex fuses on the CU to use MCB, thankfully I switched the 16A fuse off for the...
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I have done a personalisable DB schedule that may be of interest to others.
I have it in Excel format and can do it as a PDF. Don't know whether it would keep all the formatting in Excel on other peeps PC's, if it doesn't I can put in your details and send as a PDF when I have a spare moment...
Hi all.just come accross this, not 100% sure what is does.in the con.unit 2 conductors coming from bottom.. N going to neutral busbar..line going to 6a mcb used for lights what is is exactly ?
Would anyone have available one or two 20A MEM fuse holders, either the rewirable or HRC ones with the horizontal blades.
I think they are QLCS or QLRS as a number.
They look like the above, but with the nice yellow dots!
If you have I would be glad to buy them as I need to replace one on an...
off all questions this one has misinterpreted totally weird in my head. can anyone shed some light.
Describe the possible implications for the occupants of the sheltered accommodation whilst fault diagnosis work is carried out?
Hi there iv been asked to install 2 outside sockets and was wondering the best way people would do this.
first things first the ring is currently not rcd protected so could I get away with getting 2 outdoor rcd sockets instead of putting an rcbo on the whole circuit??
also what would be the...
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I am shortly going to be fitting a high integrity distribution board to a property which has two supplies (peak and off peak) fed from the meter outside the garage.the two supplies go into the garage into two 63amp switch/fuse disconnectors the main distribution board is then fed...
Hello all,I'm hoping that some of you can come with a suggestion or two to assist...My son is starting evening classes at college twice a week to learn electrical installation and theory.He's doing really well on the practical stuff but like a lot of people, he sometimes struggles with the...
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