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Everyone, many thanks for the responses, that puts my mind at rest. I always put the Henley block in an enclosure as suggested and I use the Lucy blocks for earth connection. Once again many thanks. Kind regards, Chris

Hi all, looking for some clarification here. A common way of segregating garage consumer units from the house consumer unit, is to split the supply at the intake. Thus avoiding tripping the house out should the garage consumer trip. Feeding the supply in to a 100A Henley block and then feed new...

>2000 before and afterwards, that's what is weird, and continuity was fine. My Multifunction tester is a Kewtech KT63, maybe a better model would pick up on IR better. Continuity was good. Just pressure on the cable caused this fault which is a lesson learnt in using impact drivers instead of...

Well I'd like to thank Murdoch for a polite and sensible response. I hadn't had chance to run a full check on cables and was just running things past people for a bit of light on the subject. So those of you who gave sarcastic and unhelpful responses - nobody likes a smart arse or a big head, so...

Hello all, just joined this site and after some help. I have not come across this before. We are currently refurbishing a house, new cables are being fitted as the work progresses and connected to existing light circuits that we have not yet got to as the refurbish continues. All electrical...

Hello all, just joined this site and after some help. I have not come across this before. We are currently refurbishing a house, new cables are being fitted as the work progresses and connected to existing light circuits that we have not yet got to as the refurbish continues. All electrical...

The KT63 is a good robust machine. I did give it some bad press at first which I regret as I was getting confused as it doesn't do a 2 lead test. I have spoken to Kewtech and met the team at the ELEX show in Esher, they were really helpful and gave some great advice. It's a very good machine at...