Recent content by lozarus

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    Time for an upgrade.... any suggestions for punch down tool

    Get on eBay and purchase an ex-BT Issued one. I don't think they were commercially available but were sold en masse to BT/GPO. I've had a 1996 dated BT one since the early 2000s and recently bought a 1986 one as a gift for a colleague. 100% success rate and I've punched millions of cores with...
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    Can’t beat VIR !!!!!

    On the contrary I find a lot of Hessian covered VIR singles wired in it over this way. In public buildings it seems rife in the neglected BMS circuits. Interestingly our on site substation had a transformer re-oil a few weeks ago and the DNO actually allowed me to stick my head in. You can see...
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    Private Jobs whilst Employed

    Thanks for the thoughts. As per my original point insurance, test equipment etc all considered
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    Private Jobs whilst Employed

    Yeah I'm more than happy with the odd "favour for a mate" - it's just that I'm getting asked more and more by "acquaintances" now - or people I come across at work. If it's my own mate of years I'm not fussed. Just feel I need to be careful with people I come across who want stuff doing but...
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    Private Jobs whilst Employed

    Yes as above all this is considered and I've priced up. Seems viable but was more asking about things I may not have considered
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    Private Jobs whilst Employed

    Looking for a bit of advice from the wider audience / those who may have done similar before. I entered the game a bit later / in a non conventional manner, so deciding what I can and can't do isn't as black and white as if I'd done apprenticeship route. I work as a Maintenance Electrician in...
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    Interesting SWA Cable

    Was having a poke around the old man's house today. Anyway. DB is under stairs (18th ed following a recent extension. Not done by me but it's done well.) There's a submain in 2 core SWA feeding an old 2 way Wylex in the detached garage (lights and a socket radial). Entire sub is fed from a 16a...
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    am2 before nvq expired

    I wasn't aware of any time limit between doing NVW and sitting the AM2?
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    Struggling with Calculating Energy Usage on 3ph

    Indeed. I made htem aware of this and have told them I'm doing 2 days of sampling at predetermined times during the day to represent different usage. I know the heating times and routines throughout the day so have been able to plan my times with knowledge. They can then take an average of this...
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    Struggling with Calculating Energy Usage on 3ph

    Thank you. The site (it's a big complex with multiple buildings and an on-site sub) has one 3ph meter in its intake roomn measuring energy usage for the whole site. The temp buildings i'm looking at are just being fed from a existing 3ph board which in turn is fed from a fuse tray in the intake...
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    Struggling with Calculating Energy Usage on 3ph

    Probably more of a maths problem than anything else / managing to confuse myself. I have been asked to look at energy consumption of some temporary units. They're all electrically heated office style temporary buildings. Keeping it simple, at the origin of supply there's 3x 63a MCB's feeding...
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    IR Testing & EIC

    In my line of work it's very rare that I ever have to change a DB. I'm largely in maintenance; occasionally have to add new circuits etc. so in respect to Testing this is all fairly straightforward to me. I was thinking about DB changes earlier and started to stumble when it came to IR Testing...
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    Can you feed a RCBO with a MCB

    Assuming this is MEM1 and not MEM2 (for which MR30 Type A Pod RCBOs are available) - then this is a solution I've seen done on some of our old federal boards at work. You wont have selectivity between overcurrent devices as you'll have two in line with each other but in practice (as they'll be...
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    Old Imperial Singles & Crabtree A15052 Switch

    Looks brilliant! We have the same cable in conduit back in 1963 (some bits still in service) and the same switches, but this stuff would have been used for years before. I'm glad it's not just me - Lucien spurred my interest and I now have quite a museum myself - and like you often explore...
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    Industrial lighting circuit

    Ah sorry. Confess to having only glossed over the last few replies

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