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I accepted a quote for 23 x Jinko panels, a 8 kw Solar edge inverter and a 13.5kw Tesla battery. The DNO was rejected and they said my system had to be restricted to 3.68kw export and 7.36kw total generation, no idea why. The new proposal is to have two 3.68kw Solaredge inverters and a 10kw...

We are having some building work done and thought it would be a good time to put an alarm system in.  Before the floors went down I ran in a 8-core cable to the keypad but it wasn’t quite long enough to go where it needed to go at the other end.  To cut a long story short before I could get some...

We currently have a standard loft aerial which is about 5ft long and takes up a fair bit of room.  We are converting our loft at the moment which means that we are not going to have space for the aerial.  There will be a smallish cupboard where I am hoping to put an 8 way amplifier and also a...

Brilliant!    That is going to save me a whole load of trouble.  No mess either. Thank you

Thanks for your reply. i like the sound of that idea. I have not heard of this range before and  I am not 100% sure how they work. Any chance you could post a link? Thanks

A bit of background: After having a laminate floor and new skirting boards fitted in a bedroom I decided to replace the socket fronts.  While doing this I noticed that socket A had 3 t&e cables in it, socket B had 2 cables and socket C only 1 cable. I was interested to see where the spurred...

Thanks for the link, that is perfect for what I need.

Some advice needed for adding some outside sockets. We have just had a bedroom plastered and decorated, the other half now wants a couple of outside sockets put in on the other side of the bedroom wall (great planning!).  They will be used to mainly  plug in some outdoor lights, supply a light...

I have moved into a new house recently and want to add a socket to the existing circuit in the garage. There are currently 3 sockets in the garage but are all along the same wall, I want to put one on the opposite wall.  Looking at the 2 way board in the garage, the sockets are connected into a...

I have a driveway about 25m long along the side of my house.  I want to fit some 12v ground lights along the length of the drive that light it up when I drive in or when I come out of the house at the other end of the drive. There would be one PIR at each end. I have seen a Techmar plug and...

I get your point. Thanks

Yes I can see what you mean about it never coming on.  So what if I link the switched live to the permanent live?  The isolator could then be used as an on/off switch. 

I have had a new shower fitted into an extended bathroom recently.  There is now an extract fan above the shower that has a built in light but the other half has decided that she doesn't want the fan/light on in the shower when she is in the bath.  I could get another pull switch put in just for...

It is 2.42m high

I have had my bathroom extended and a new shower installed (not electric shower) but the pull switch for the bathroom light is now right outside of the shower enclosure.  It is approx. 12 inches away from the edge of the enclose which doesn't go right up to the ceiling.  Is this acceptable...

That seems sensible.  So how are cables run when a house is re-wired or an extra socket on the opposite side of the room is needed?  Does everything run round the outside so no drilling is needed?

There might be a couple that could be re-routed, but most run a pretty direct route from one point to another straight over the top of joists with not much slack.  I only want to put a few boards down, I didn't really want to get into replacing cables!!!

Hi I want to insulate and board out my loft, but when it was originally wired all of the cables have been run (and clipped) over the top of the joists.  I am assuming that the only way to get around this problem is to disconnect one end of the cable, drill through the joists and re-connect.  Is...

Thanks for all your advice and help

I have some12V halogen downlights in a kitchen which are controlled with a dimmer switch.  I have replaced the halogen lamps with 12v LED dimmable lamps but the problem now is that when they are dimmed they flicker. After some research I have found that a trailing edge dimmer switch should be...