Recent content by ACR ELectrical

1) I always report as C3 minimum, sometimes a C2 if theres missing carriers just force the hand of the owners to get the asbestos removed. However i will always add an additional observation regarding Asbestos beds (not coded) to the report stating a significant health risk is present to...

Jay if its any help to you I regulary sub for a firm who specialise in energy monitoring and energy reduction, power quality analysis...etc, i've been involved in several reporting projects with hotels in london, many of those which we submit a report ends up saving them more than they paid for...

For any people with similar troubles i got put in touch with a firm called Diamond Engineering based in Hampshire who make replacement covers for Light Columns. Cheers all.

Sad article but very important share. Could be a dozen reasons why it was plugged in or not unplugged, but if it highlights the dangers of capacitance or working live on equipment at least some good can come from a sad unchangeable incident. Dangerous capacitance is so overlooked by most...

Yup private indeed, there's 24hrs security so doubt any doasyoulikey's have been on it. It's in a small carpark, it has to have been someone reversing into it or the likes, it's more cosmetic damage tbh, structurally it's rock solid. Cheers all for the advice, i'll get on those firms people...

Anyone give me a pointer, i've exhausted google and my contacts. Doing some remedial works in London, one of the items on my list is a Lamp Post it's a simple round column, nothing electrically wrong with it, but someone has obviously reversed into it denting the column and now it's missing the...

I think the OP should start again explaining this, and take careful note of terminology used. My first point would to prove your actually isolating what you think your isolating, if your isolating the sub-mains have you proven it is correct? Seems like your not performing safe isolation...

lol +1, spot on. Good old common sense :Applaud

Snap, good practice imo.

Like what others have written, Contact HSE with proof http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/raising-your-concern.htm specific breeches of EAWR 89 would likely be necessary, you have a duty under law to do this, but also a morale duty to the industry. Consider approaching a lawyer in employment law...

Brilliant cheers guys, so this is why i cannot find anything in literature :facepalm: Makes sense too, for a general CCU upgrade i can put it forward as a recommendation. Cheers again Aid

Hello Peeps, Can someone point me in the right direction, i've got it in my head that it is a requirement to install Fire Alarm Detection to Grade D, LD3 (as a minimum) standard when performing a CCU upgrade, but i can't seem to find any written documentation in any book which states this is a...

Thanks! As i said in the post go down and visit them, don't just take my word for it, always do your own research  :Salute

Why can't i reply? Is it noob restrictions?

Nope my bad, it was someone else who sent the PM. :coat I work with a lot of guys who studied at local colleges, i feel they never really had the same level of tutoring, the amount of conversations i have which end "...did you not learn this at college?" let people decide of course but it's...