Hi,
Hopefully a quick and easy question.
I have just installed lights in my loft and everything is work without problem. However, I am a little paranoid about leaving the lights on up there and when closed up you can not see that they are on and it could be months before this is discovered...
The house renovation is almost done but some of the original 1980's switched have remained and I wanted to swap them out for the MK ones in the new parts of the house. Simple job eh?
So I bought some 2 way switches for the hall (4 switches control the same set of lights); for the snug (2...
I am not an electrician (as you will see from the question!) and I am not planning on doing any electrical alterations. My question is one of safety. I wanted to move a couple of sockets on a kitchen ring main. So I switched off that circuit on the RCD board and all the sockets were then dead. I...
Hey,
Total noob here so please be patient ?
I have two power supplies mains 220v in a type of small cabin/house every day around 8am they cut of the good supply and leave it off for a few hours then turn it back in again.
What I would love would be a contraption that switches between the...
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I have an LED landing light, which has 9 G9 LED bulbs. The unit has two switches, one upstairs and one downstairs. Ive found that when the upstairs switch is in the closed circuit position, but the light is off due to the downstairs switch being in the open position, there is still a very...
Hi folks,
Just need a bit of advice regarding whether or not neutrals require switching.
- 3 phase board, 3 pole main switch, neutral is un-switched. 416.2 (ii) states that switching of the neutral is not required if the conductor is reliably connected to earth by a low resistance to meet the...
Hi folks,
Would appreciate some thoughts.
Called to a friend's house earlier in week. No cooker or sockets.
She said that the cooker had tripped a couple of times when she tried to set up the electronic timer either before or during use. Timer needs to be live to allow electric oven to...
Hi I am having a problem with my bedroom and bathroom lighting ,in my bedroom I have 2 downlighters that are switched from 2 dual pole switches at either on of the bedroom,these downlighters are 12v fed from a transformer in the loft ,I also have 1 mains light on my ceiling too,I'm wanting to...
At 1st fix stage. Customer has decided they want option for wifi switching.
There's 2 way and intermediate switching involved that I was going to do conventionally with 3 core cable.
Obviously now I'm going to provide a neutral at each "main" switch but what about the rest?
I am trying, with little success, to purchase 2 pole DC Contactors suitable for
switching 20-25amp 600volt DC preferably with 230volt AC coil. I require
these for switching the supply from PV array. If you are able to supply
or suggest where I might be able to get them I would be most grateful...
Hi Everyone.
Working on a self contained emergency lighting system.
There are 70 emergency lights over 3 floors.
The emergencies are wired on a separate circuit from the local lights but fed from the same DB.
I require the supply for the self contained (batt back up) lights to disconnect...
Hi All
We've recently got a foot in the door with a decent garden company who are promising lots of work.
There's been talk about wireless/ app controlled lighting, pumps etc.
To be honest I've not been down this route just yet.
Just seeing what makes any of use/ recommended please?
Only...
All government funded home chargepoints for electric vehicles must use innovative ‘smart’ technology from July 2019, the government announced on 14 December 2018, fulfilling the commitment in the Road to Zero Strategy published in 2018.
This means chargepoints must be able to be remotely...
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I am installing 12 x suspended LED fittings in an office. They are on two switches. The fitting itself comes with a 5 core cable. How do I switch this. Do I need on/off and momentary switch or something else. See attached pic. Any ideas gratefully accepted.
Hi all.
I was called to a house recently where the occupier reported that when they turned the oven isolator off the RCD would trip.
So I tried it and that's exactly what happened. There was nothing switched on on the oven at the time. When the oven is on it works fine.
It is an integrated oven...
planning on having some two way switching put in but controlled from four places so will need to have intermediate switches I'm planning on controlling six rooms from different places inside a house so can turn downstairs room lights on from upstairs so not only two way switches but intermediate...
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My bungalow hall lights can be turned on and off from 4 different switches.
I was expecting these switches to be a mix of 3 way and intermediate switches, but all 4 of them are just 1 way switches.
I now have a problem that my hall lights are permanently turned on, and none of the switches...
so I understand how 2 way switching works up just needing some help with this. If I have a 2 gang 2 way switch, and I am taking the feed to the switch, do I link out the commons ?
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