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Thank you very much all,  I'll be sure to write down your carefully thought out systematic approach Kerching

Hi, I'm a fairly newly qualified electrician and have had a callout to a car park with a number of the bollard LED lights not working. I've looked fairly extensively on the internet I can't find anything in stock, would anyone know where to get replacements for the lights in the pictures, or at...

I've now also read "PVC breaks down over time especially with exposure to UV ray and is responsible for the many poor installations we hear about due to capillary action where moisture gets into the connections and leads to the fittings breaking down and short circuits blowing the LED chips and...

Point taken. I've decided to basically only use 5 junction boxes with swa cables and glands to each group of closely located lights and then just use black plastic sleeving for the black flex, so there will be about 0.5m of buried flex in black conduit to some of the light fittings, am going to...

Now that I think about it, 1 junction box per a light seems overkill, I just wanted as little flex as possible to the light, what's good practise?  It' going to be really expensive otherwise

Yeah I just meant 3 core actually, and a 4 core from the light switch. 16 lights, but it's going to be 2 armoured glands per a junction box and then one stuffing gland.  The client hasn't picked the exact lights yet so no I haven't,  I was assuming a 6amp breaker was going to suffice,  may I be...

I'm newly qualified and I'm going to install some garden lights for a client.  I asked another NICEIC electrician with some years behing him regarding the best way to go about it and he recommended terminating 4core swa cable straight into nylon stuffing glands and then just twisting and...

I'm testing my own house and am just wanting to learn. Are insulation resistance tests ok to run on LED downlights or any types of downlights for that matter?  Am I right in thinking that I can just test my whole installation regardless of ELV devices if I carry out a COMBINED L+N to earth...

I would have thought this is a c3?   Assuming the installation is correctly installed I don't quite see the danger.  

I am not qualified.  My bad if I posted this in the wrong place.  All 4 of them.  The plan was to message a whole bunch of electricians since obviously most of them are going to say no, then pay them to come before the installation and after the installation to discuss anything they want done. ...

thank you for your reply.   I am planning to get someone qualified to sign it off.   I'm just wondering how you would go about sizing the MCB on the original consumer unit that feeds the secondary.    Would you prefer 40amps or 50amp?  I think 63amp is too big due the cable being only 6mm SWA...

thank you for the reply, sorry for irrelevant information. 421.1.7 reccommends AFDD for additional protection in CA2 locations. It's a wooden shed. TNCS, and probably about 8metres away.  Some power tools, work shed, storage and stuff, general use.  thanks

Could I feed a consumer unit with 10, 30amp MCBs with 1 32amp MCB?  What regulation would this break?

My cooker is 2.95kw and is off of a 13a socket.   So according to my amazing mathematical genius mind  2950watts/240v = 12.29amps yippee it works But is this ok?  Bad workmanship?  Should I re-run this from it's own MCB off from the consumer unit, say maybe on an 16amp MCB for example. I...

TL;DR is at the bottom of the page Hi thanks for reading I want to install a secondary consumer unit out to my garden shed.  I want a couple of double plug sockets, a shed light and some garden lights. I have a spare way in my current consumer unit. I plan to install an a2 radial circuit in...