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  1. Carter

    Please, need advice on what testing equipment I should be looking at...

    Don't forget that if you're thinking of discrete components, Ins reistance + Loop Imp/PFC + RCD testers as opposed to a single multi-function device then you are also going to have to stump up the calibration fee for each seperate bit of test kit rather than just one. I suppose if the units...
  2. Carter

    AC/DC

    Big thumbs up to Davethe glitz for his recommendation of the Yamaha Pacifica in any of its incarnations. They are a top piece of kit, for the money you won't get better unless you get lucky with a classified ad or something. And just to prove it I bought the twelve string version ('****bly')...
  3. Carter

    Cable colours

    Would appreciate it if you could find them Mike.
  4. Carter

    Ideas?

    Shouldn't the functional conductors brought to the socket's second 'hi-integ' terminals be cream coloured? V good explanation of the subject Spec Loc.Applaud Smiley Back to the mobile, would it be possible to source an 'off-standard' plug/skt combination, physically to prevent any other...
  5. Carter

    Cable colours

    Ah OK! Should be active now. Blushing
  6. Carter

    Cable colours

    Well it's not quite the case is it. I've read this pdf and it essentially reduces to the UK (having been presented with a fait accompli...Blushing) knocking the continental's heads together saying... and I can certainly testify to the chaotic use of colours deployed in Italian machine tools! but...
  7. Carter

    AC/DC

    Hey mate
  8. Carter

    Using a contactor

    Oh God there's more??? :(
  9. Carter

    Cable colours

    The clue is in the use of the term "harmonisation" a classic piece of EU wonk-speak and a dead giveaway as to the instigators. It's all part of the hateful process of "ever greater union" that is writ large through every piece of legislation, diktat and directive the is imposed on us from...
  10. Carter

    screws for patress boxes

    I'm going on this post. I have on occasion resorted to lightly dressing the brick back with a sharp floorboard chisel where it's been necessary to take off chunks of mortar or the odd bit of inclusion that sticks out from the face of the brick. If I hit crap mortar lines and suchlike under...
  11. Carter

    Elf and Safety

    Task-Running conduit and pyros along the horizontal purlins holding the cladding to a warehouse 25ft up. tower? no, skyjack? no, double extension? ****** that too heavy, the solution? Pocket jammed full of saddles, other one full of caddy-clips, gob full of 2BA pinz'n'nuts, drill llashed to...
  12. Carter

    To all you new people .. who have arrived since... Friday? ish? 17th

    Yep, plenty of activity, keeps things fresh and taxes the brain & memory. I do! ditto that, thanks chap/ettes
  13. Carter

    Using a contactor

    Precisely, that's why I asked. You'd think there'd be some form of feedback cct for just such an eventuality. Yer man seems to have an extremely basic installation on his hands and that's being generous. Sure it isn't just a run of frost protection tape (current self limiting) run under a...
  14. Carter

    screws for patress boxes

    As the septic one says, placcy patresses aren't the best thing to be fixing to bare brickwork. They dont respond well to being flexed when pulled back to an uneven surface by screws, washers notwithstanding. Unless you can land them on a whole brick and it's smooth and not one of those 'riven'...
  15. Carter

    Using a contactor

    Oh that poor old 'stat. What was the guy thinking???? I take max current values in things like stats and timeswitches with a huge pinch of salt unless I can actually see the contacts for myself. Oftentimes you find a poxy little micro-switch is in fact the switching element and it hasn't a hope...
  16. Carter

    Adiabatic Equation

    It's about protecting the cable from the energy 'let through' in that interval when the system is effectively "in limbo" between the time a fault occurs and the time it is 'seen' by the protective device and the supply is interupted so it is the characteristics of the DNO's fuse that determine...
  17. Carter

    Capping

    but..... 522.6.1 IMPACT Wiring systems shall be selected & erected so as to minimize the damage arising from mechanical stress, e.g. by impact, penetration, tension or compression during installation, use or maintenance. Will continue to use it, prefer metal to plastic even though it's a...
  18. Carter

    other trades anyone?

    Jib Jib Jib Job Job Job!
  19. Carter

    other trades anyone?

    You mean one of those interfering, statist, unthinkingly lackwitted, parasitic & pig-ignorant buttmonkeys who will be told to f*** right off should one come a'knocking seeking entry to chez Carter? Anyone know how much are they being paid? sorry, how much we are paying them? I can see this...
  20. Carter

    Label Maker

    Just what I found with my P Touch 65, it rattles through tape and it doesn't make it easy to reduce the waste either. By the time you've finished ****ing about with the label length you've wasted a foot or so negating any saving you would have made. X( They aren't the stickiest labels either...
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