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- Hi, I am currently installing a DB in a plant room which will supply part of a large workshop. The DB is supplied from a MCCB panel board which sits right next to it meaning the tails supplying it are barely 3m long. The tails feeding the DB are 50mm with a 35mm earth. As […]
- This is a DIY project. I am not an electrician. I have two LiFePO4 batteries to power the equipment on on a 12 foot plastic jon boat. One battery is 100AH and one is 10AH. The primary use of the 100AH battery is to run the trolling motor. The primary use of the 10AH battery […]
- Hello, I am looking for some advice please. I want to get a commando socket installed in my front garden to plug in an EV car charging device where the amps is adjustable from 9A,10,,16 and 32A. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/EVDANCE-Charger-Waterproof-Electric-Commando-Black/dp/B0D2QDNWR6?th=1) I want to keep the connection separate from my main household circuit. I inquired with one of […]
- anyone know any ideal junction box for a lighting circuit. I have tried the ashley hager ones but they seem filmsy and fidgety to get 4 cables in securely. It's 4 cables so 3x1mm and 1×1.5mm, will throw them into wago 221s and then need to find a adequate jb any ideas? also another question […]
- Two years ago my bathroom was redone – everything modernised, replaced, redecorated etc. The ceiling pull switch for the light had been in place for 38 years and still worked well but looked a bit old and yellowed. It was made by MK. It was discarded in favour of a more attractive new ceiling pull […]
- Is it okay to spur off a ring in 4mm to serve 4 x sockets, without a fcu before the first socket??
- OK, so we’ve recently had solar with battery installed so all house electrics have recently been checked and certified. At the end-of our solar install we also had National Grid replace the cut so that everything was fully up to date and compliant with current regulations. 3 weeks later the new cut-out has caught fire […]
- I need to add in another supply to a new workshop but im running out of space next to my dis board. I currently have two extra supplies (via tails to henley's) going to an outside barn and the utility part of my house. Looking at how these two supplies have been fitted (previous owner) […]
- Hi guys and gals, After getting rid of Bulk Workwear as orders were not being sent out and their phone lines went dead. I thought I need to find another Electricians Workwear Supplier. Some of the Best Electricians Workwear going. Electricians Polo Shirt Embroidered. Electrician workwear trousers with pockets, and a couple of baseball caps […]
- We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections. I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one […]
- I'm excited about the grid lineup and the fact verstappen is 7th. Anybody else watching today?
- Hello everybody.Hope to get some fresh ideas from you,guys..I bought a Audi 2016 2.0 with electrical problem.Auction described as power steering problem.But later found out that cluster doesn`t work and ABS also.I checked with a scanner,says no communication with a power steering module,ABS,and instrument cluster.I can start the car without cluster..! I thought Audi has […]
- Hi, UK: My doorbell is on my lighting circuit in my new build, by the bell box is a switched fused spur, with a 13A fuse in it, which is probably too high to be of use on a lighting circuit, however I have discovered this switch does not turn the bell box off, and […]
- How do we achieve a maximum automatic disconnection of supply time not exceeding 0.4 of a second, during a fault of negligible impedance to earth?
- I was reading a thread on a different forum about someone asking how to wire the above, he was going to put the incoming into the top contacts and the outgoing into the bottom contacts leaving the middle pole free. I thought well that sounds fine but it reminded me of how I've seen them […]
- The Gas Talk forum is up. www.GasTalk.co.uk if anybody would like to help run the place. You need to be a GSR engineer based in the UK. Reply to this or DM me after setting up an account over there on that forum, and let me know your username and your GSR number and business […]
- There appears to be some confusion over the domain name electricansforums.co.uk, and electriciansforums.co.uk. We have been asked a few times by potential buyers of the company what is going on with this domain that’s similar to ours. So I wanted to clear up something so it’s easy to understand to those with similar domain names, […]
- Just setting up a new sticky thread that unlike the dodgy trade pics thread is focused on showing the result of failures in electrical installations IE – damage caused which may be due to various reasons. Please do not post pics of poor workmanship if there is nothing else to show like the consequences, use […]
- Hi all, UK: The RCD on the circuit my boiler is on has tripped, I have a water supply issue in my area today and switched on my hot tap for a moment or so and there was low pressure, could the low level of water in a modern boiler (Logic) cause the RCD on […]
- Hi all, I am currently in the middle of completing my electrical installation course and I want to work in the field to gain some experience. Unfortunately, my experience in electrical works is very limited, what sort of skills would I need? I know that learning how to do containment and trunking is key, where […]