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I recently had a broken ring fault at my mates house, to be fair my mate suspected something was up when he saw the plumber mucking about with a Wago box a month earlier when he was fitting a new boiler. I checked it out yip open circuit on ring. What I suspect happened was the plumber core...

How much time and rigor was spent on the last test? It has been known, not personally, for £75 to be paid and the tester not even get out of his van, called a drive by. A proper test should take hours and cost a lot more than £75. Maybe you had a better tester this time.

That all sounds like good customer support. Don’t forget to update us please on how this all goes.

I know nowt about gate loop controllers, how and what does it do Andy? Please excuse my ignorance.

He says he’s replacing with the same rating Andy.

What does your tutor suggest. It will need a decent level of complexity and detail as it is the HNC. I remember many years ago (1991) mine involved a plant addition that had a couple of fairly decent sized motors that required 70mm cables after I did the cable calls, It also involved Foxboro PID...

Swop the dimmer switch for a normal switch then do your testing, or even disconnect the dimmer and connect the live and switched live together into a Wago or terminal block, this will allow you to check for voltage at the fitting. It would be remiss of me not to say isolate before changing your...

Mmmmm, worked on Haz Area kit most of my working life, been retired for a few years now so unless things have changed in recent years we always earthed the armour at both ends, any earth missing on the plant end would be picked up on haz area inspections and remedial action would have to be...

From memory did these Provens not have the folding blades, so that when the wind got too strong they simply folded in to protect against overspeed as opposed to furling, if I am correct then one of the weak points was the springs breaking that held the blades in the correct position. Also from...

You do get little flap valves to prevent back draugh. £6.99 from Amazon

I have seen them used on the likes of the American car restoration shows, but it just doesn’t sit right with me. Reason being we were always taught to go forward about 3/4 turn then back 1/4 of a turn to break the chip. Of course it might be that things have changed in the 45 years since I was...

On the 13th Jan residents in Alberta Canada were asked not to use any heavy loads such as EV chargers and electric space heating due to grid limitations. To compound this I imagine the range on EVs will be right down due to a lot of the battery energy being used to heat the drivers and passenger...

Flipping heck that rumpatec is expensive, wonder how many cable stands I have made over the years out of bits of off cut timber and a piece of metal conduit, quite a few, cost zero.

Fairly certain in Scotland the rule is now all houses to have interlinked detectors, but they do not need to be mains ones. I have fitted Aico in my own place but friends and family have gone down the 10 year sealed battery unit route, very easy to fit and install, pair them all up on the...

Nothing worse when the Lockshield white cap is missing from the rad, some small child could give themselves a nasty injury.

Another thing that can cause the weak socket contacts is the use of the stupid unregulated, zero standard so called child safety covers that fit into the sockets, because they do not conform to any standard they may be oversize and stretch the socket contacts. They also have other negative...

They will in my case, as my generation meter died after 10 years with the display going blank, apparently it is not an uncommon problem. Got it changed and sent in pics showing new meter with serial number to my FIT provider,

What year did you first go to Cumbernauld😀

Brother in laws house had the system, 1st and only time I have seen it, disconnected and scrapped now, as above snake oil, his house still has damp not as bad now he has sorted out a lot of the causes.

20A is what I was always told as well @binky, like you can’t remember where it came from.