When you do the continuity test on a ring final circuit and you have to connect L1 to N2 and vice versa, this assumes you know which L cable is the incoming or outgoing.
I understand that if you connect L1 to N1 and vice versa the ohm readings rise then fall as you go round the ring circuit...
During fault finding I came across a switch wire and a perm wire connected the wrong way would this still be known as reversed polarity ? As the connections are reversed?
I've sat my am2 today and got to finish it off tomorrow morning. There's a couple of things niggling me so i was hoping someone might be able to help.
1) 2 way and intermediate lighting: I've put brown tape round the strappers (black & grey) but do I need to put brown tape round the common...
Hi gents, advice please
new conversion, in bedroom newly decorated
hi wiring was carried out about 4 years ago but this part of the house has just been finished.
we have two 5A sockets for table lamps either side of where the bed will be.
also have to wire in/connect the wiring for 2-way...
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I've had some trouble receiving full payment from a customer. I'm guessing many of you may have had issues like this before, if so, what's the best way to approach the situation? Feel like going round there and removing cables! Any help would be appreciated.
As in the title! Anyone know where it's gone?
I'm talking about the small green tick that was next to a thread if you had written a post on it. I found it really useful to quickly see where the thread was that I had been writing on..
Unable to access any(but can see most) of the round type screw terminal joint boxes.
Hello,
I carried out anEICR last week, and the entire house is filled with SELV recessed downlighting.
All of the (78fittings) have been skimmed around/over at some point, and the(dangeling) round type...
Hi.
I was browsing for some information about ring mains when I came across this forum. I then spent the next hour (in an open office) giggling away to myself while reading some of the hilarity posted on this excellent forum.
I am from a forces background and was delighted to find a sense of...
Hi,
Just about to start refiiting kitchen.
Going to install interlinked plinth lights in three areas. Is it acceptable to effectively create a radial circuit of 5a round pin sockets from the switched live feed of a light switch?
Thanks
Matthew
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Afternoon Ladies and Gents,
Due to another accident overseas all ongoing and planned projects on site need to have failsafe tamperproof safety contactors in the safety circuit. Great.:bulb2: Probably retrofit as well, knowing my luck.
I have come across Allen Bradley, they also do the safety...
I know this is a ridiculous thread but I cant find out the difference between round and flat 2 core flex! They both have exactly the same spec and I need to know these things!!
I'm using it to extend the circuit for some bell chimes as volt drop is too great for bell wire but..... flat or...
Hi gang!
I have a customer who has asked me why his TV flickers on and off when the bathroom fluorescent light is turn off or on.
Any ideas?
and no I didn't install it lol
Thanks in advance,
Ty.
Hi people. ... New extension install, and the studs will be packed with 140mm of celotex! How would it stand if a 50mm gap was chased in the celotex all round the cable so as not to de-rate it ridiculously. (2.5mm ring circuits). Whats the standard procedure here...upsize the cable? Thanks in...
Anyone know where I can find really small round transformers to fit in the back of wall lights. To power 3x 12v 10w capsule halogens
Can't find them anywhere!
Afternoon Folks, I wonder If somebody could help me trace a product I had assumed would have been easy enough to source.... As the title suggests, it is basically a white version of this -...
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...
i got a job through yesterday to look at a lutron system that was stuck mid operation and not responding despite 3 sparks looking at over the past 2 weeks.
first thought - no thanks
second thought - look through the internet
third thought and 1st action - check out previous posts on the forum...
Just a quick hi, I've been a member for a while but not been active. I'm a fellow spark from Essex, been self employed for 5 years now and things are going well. I will hopefully be on here more with some questions of my own and also I would like to give some advice if I can. I will look forward...
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