Good Evening,
I trained as a domestic electrician, but the last 43 years were spent faultfinding inside panels, playing with building management systems, maintaining generators, and high voltage switchgear, and testing lightning conductors, so my wiring experience is varied, to say the least...
Anybody ever used these? Ive been asked to install them complete with remote control, customer has already bought the fittings. Situated in a bathroom so IP rated, will they work in an IP rated enclosure?
Hi there, I just want to run a question past you guys, i want to start training as an electrician but i'm concerned about the rules regarding colour blindness, i am colour blind but i feel this shouldnt be a problem ( Should it ? )
Will i be asked to pass a colour blindness test at any point...
Fist time post so be nice
Had to look at a job to day ( did not have test stuff with me as was just going parts when he rang me as we all know you do not have tools in van all the time)
So what is this green & yellow thing in the back off all the box things on the wall has it got a use or can I...
Has anyone had any experince with this type of LED lamp. Was going to use them in a customers bathroom? See some of the reviews comment on no memory function, what would be the default setting for example.
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Hello Guys,
I've got a garden lighting job to do in Feb, a long way a way I know. The company I am doing it for, (garden lighting designer) usually only design very simple 12v garden lighting systems, simple on and off. However this time they have a job for a designer who has asked for colour...
I was wondering on the views you have on lighting and the future. Do you think LED lighting is the way forward and other types of lighting will eventually become a thing of the past?
I'm sitting here in my hotel in a foreign country, taking a break from servicing a piece of equipment while some Loctite sets, browsing some old threads on various forums. Colour codes always seem to be popular topics so I came up with this little puzzle for the more widely travelled sparks. As...
When you are using 3 phase colours for live neutral and earth, should you use black or grey as neutral, I usually use black as it was the old neutral colour. I work self employed for various different companies and some say you should NEVER use black as neutral, others say only use black. I...
jmc1683
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My son has a remote controlled colour changing led light in his room. A light blew earlier, I replaced it, but the switch wasn't working. I checked the wiring reconnected the fuse and now the lights won't turn off. It's definately wired correctly. Is there something within the relayitself...
Evening All....
Just planning the next stage on a job I have on the go at present. Bungalow with a lot of the internal walls being removed to open plan it all.
The area I'm getting my head round at the mo is the downlight plan.... they want the bliming things everywhere :sad_smile:
Will be...
Hi guys,
I hope somebody may be able to help me out. I've installed wiring for a home network in Cat5e, running cables to most rooms and terminating in modular outlets.
These terminations can be seen here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ifgub477l19om7/IMAG0186.jpg
and I have matched the 8x cores...
my sister told me today that the office she works in was having a fire alarm system fitted last week. the walls are all plastered and painted white so when her boss seen red FP200 clipped to walls he hit the roof!!. but when he asked the installers (national company) to change the colour they...
When sleeving a 3 core 3 phase Brown, Black, Grey cable as a single phase cable, which core of the Black and Grey are to be sleeved as Neutral and Earth.
Some lads are saying Black as Neutral and others are saying Grey as Neutral.
I can't find a specific answer in the reqs.
kodr
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