I’ve just installed an infrared heater for my conservatory. It’s plugged into a socket. The heater is happily running on the second heat setting (1600W) but when I turn it up to the high setting (2400W) after a while it trips the breaker.
Any suggestions on how to solve this please?
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I’ve got a timeguard pir sensor for switching 3 led floodlights in various all at once. I’ve replaced it like for like as the lux dial had snapped off.
Wired it up and is illuminating on movement for minimum time set and going off great, but when I turn lux to dusk the light still comes...
A friend of mine has an old mechanical Horstmann Astral stair lighting timer. It has managed to get completely out of whack in both times and month.
Anyone know how to adjust or reset one of these clocks? Can’t find any instructions other than “don’t mess with these things, live electricity...
Hi I’m sitting my AM2 next month and have found out that you need to set an overload on a direct online starter motor circuit.
I have tried asking my supervisor and assessor,tutor at college not one of them have given my a straight answer..
Is this the formula?
Its 3 phase so formula is...
anyone else got one? Ever used the R1+R2 setting?
Was testing a socket circuit for a minor works yesterday fed from a 36 way TP&N DB Everything except the fire alarm was wired in singles through trunking absolutely none of the earths were remotely near the terminals that they should have been...
Hi,
Just a quick question. On the Megger MFT 1721 that I have on the left dial their is a black/white clamp setting.
Is this for the Iclamp?
Can you use this say for earth leakage or just current usage test?
Thanks
Michael
Can you clever people advise as to why I might be having an issue with my ceramic kiln. I am a potter not an electrician so I will endeavour to give you what technical information I have.
11kw kiln running off a domestic board with its own 50A fuse on board in the house, 15m lenght of 10mm...
Was asked to quote for a job today wiring up a summerhouse/playhouse in a garden to run the usual sockets, lights and garden tools etc...
When on the job the guy who is a scrap dealer/collector points to a roll of 25mm Aluminium 4 core SWA and says can you use that to run down to the summer...
Hi all, I have zero experience with boilers and timers so hoping I can clear up some confusion.
I have a Horstmann Electronic 7 with a simple digital interface controlling a Heatrae Sadia megaflo tank.
I need hot water at irregular and different times of the day throughout the week.
I can set it...
I am to replace an old MCCB with a new Eaton one, the circuit feeds a few boards and the current rating for the circuit is 160A. What I'm trying to understand is the 4 trip parameters that you select yourself on the breaker. These are:
IR - Continuous current setting (A)
tR - Number of...
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My last tennant has installed a veritas alarm, the one with the DCA 0001 led remote keypad,
im having problems setting it up for the new tennants, basically they want zone 1,2,5 & 6 working as part set
for when they go to bed at night. The issue is they can omit the zones 3 & 4 but for...
Hello folks, I confess I'm not a spark or trainee and I'm just hoping for a bit of advice, if you can help me :) .
I'm setting up a food market stall on the high street, to be housed in a small marquee. I shall be taking electricity from the high street supply, located under small manhole...
I would like to seek advice from experienced guys because I have interview test for my power engineering as below. Thank you.
a) For 600A switchboard, what type of device setting need to do? Can I say that I need to do setting for direct acting for MCCB since more than 100A and earth fault...
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A strange problem has started happening with our Galaxy 16 alarm. When setting it and leaving the house everything seems fine. But when returning home, a couple of seconds after opening the front door the alarm goes off. We enter the pin to stop the alarm and everything's fine.
But is...
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I haven't much experience on this subject so thought id ask!.
I need to choose and set the overload on a circuit contactor containing an overload. It's a 3ph motor rated at 14.1 amp do i set the overload at the same current rating or just above due to the initial inrush?
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I have an above mentioned mccb the torque setting nuts have been previously snapped off as its second hand does anyone know the torque setting it should be
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I was in a house the other day having a look at the electrical installation for a potential buyer of the house. The house was rented out previously, and labels on the consumer unit say the installation was last checked in 2011. However there appears to be no paperwork available to support this...
Hi guys,
First post on the forum so go easy on me.
Ive been an electrician now for 12 years and started off as an apprentice and served my time under Lorne Stewart in Bristol. I left Lornes a year after coming out of my time and have been 'self employed' ever since (7 years).
It started off...
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So I decided to take the plunge and go at it on my own!!!
I'm an electrician in Crawley area and I was just wondering if anyone
had any ideas of how to promote it
and also if you guys could check out my website and give me feedback on it
to see if I've missed anything!!! Haze...
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