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  1. ian932

    Did you miss me?

    Hey you lot long time since I have been here, looks like the same bunch of top sparks and Vets are still here lol
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    East Of Leicester Project

    We are doing the home automation and lighting control at a house East of Leicester (A47) and the builder has been let down by their usual sparks, they have offered us the job to price today and the job should have started last week!! Is anyone intrestested in the 1st fix of the electrical and...
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    Wired Intruder With Mobile Access

    Can anyone suggest a wired system with a SMS/GSM feature built in or that can be added? The client wants to use a pay as you go SIM
  4. ian932

    Price Required - Central Bucks

    Hi Guys, We are pricing a job in the Central part of Buckinghamshire and we are looking for a registered electrician in the area to carry out some work for us on a Sub-contract basis. We need to get our price in by the 20/05/2013, at this stage it is a budget price, the client needs to see if...
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    Work in London

    We are doing some lighting control and automation for a client near to st pancras station, they wanted us to do the wiring but we don't want to tie ourselves up on a job this far from our core work. We had a meeting today and suggested we post a thread on a forum we use to try and find him an...
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    HQI low bay

    Does a 250W Low Bay use 250W or does it use a small amount of additional wattage for control gear anyone got a figure? I have a client who has a unit with over 100 of them and they burn 24hrs 6 days a week!! and the whole place is switched with two light switches, so I'm trying to show them how...
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    6mm Twin & Earth LSZH 6242BH x 25m

    Buy It Now Price:
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    Control4

    Has anyone worked with this automation kit? Thinking of giving it a try.
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    Increased Zs through RCD's

    I did a CU upgrade yesterday and got higher than normal Zs through the RCD's, one of the increased it by 0.29ohm and the other by 0.43ohm. I've never seen it this high before, the customer asked for all budget range so I used Denmans Basic range against my better judgement but never had this...
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    Diet coke and Mentos - Whoops

    YouTube - ‪Diet Coke and Mentos stunt goes wrong‬‏
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    whatprice.co.uk

    Its been a good while since I've looked at this site, it just popped up in a google search while looking for something else. Electrician prices for consumer unit install How can the bloke in birmingham do that CU upgrade for
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    Advice on what CCTV to get

    I've wired for 11 camera positions around the outside of the house, all done in shotgun to central point. The cameras are to be mounted on the underside of the soffit and will be fixed position units. I
  13. ian932

    Osama Bin Laden Killed

    Al Qaeda Leader Osama Bin Laden Killed In Pakistan, US President Barack Obama Announces | World News | Sky News
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    I think you need to switch off NOW!

    Industrial unit where I do a load of work walked past a panel and smelt that familiar electrical burning smell, popped the lid off to find this. Told site manager we need to shut down now. Can it wait an hour we are in the middle of production "Err NO if it gets to the case/metal coupler...
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    Data and network contractors

    Is it just me being picky or are the majority of these guys w***ers. Just spent early part of the week putting in 30m of 100mm basket on cantilevers nice sweeps and bends etc lovely bit of work if I do say so myself. laid a 50mm 4 core swa on it and part dressed it on the bends etc. still have...
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    Stripping outer sheath

    Had a pre inspection meeting with my NICEIC engineer recently as I
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    Express Electrical in administration

    Well just chased the accounts department again for the millionth time to see where my
  18. ian932

    Design software

    Does anyone use or know of a good design package that can do the calcs for a 3 phase board and all its proposed circuits + the calc for the feed to it. The job I'm looking at needs to be fed from the landlords distribution system which is 65m away.
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    lighting circuit

    What size of cable do you use on domestic rewires for the lighting circuit
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    Automation & Lighting control

    Here is my latest automation job. The client has a Square D IHC system no longer supported in the UK but big in Europe. Its been in 5 ish years and he is fed up with it as there are no nice switches to go with it as it works on a momentary push switch and they have awful clipsal white plastic...
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