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Unpolarised electolytics are just made up from back to back polarised electrolytics in one can, one of them is always reversed biased so...

Right, sorry for the delay. It's time to announce the winner of our latest competition. The random number generator has spoken and the...

Thanks Trailer Boy..comprehensive reply brilliant. Very grateful. Your assumptions are all correct. M Electrician with me now will post...

I'm not an Electrician. Turns out the bathroom fitter had Incorrectly wired at least one of the 21 wires coming through the ceiling...

Thanks for the update and glad you got it sorted... I think most of the other electricians on here like myself see far too many botched...

These are very valid points that seened to be overlooked during training these days, back in my days at college hours were spent on...

Self employed doing electrics for over 10 years...???? How have you provided Part P compliance notifications for rewires? What...

Given you are checking earth leakage on a live installation it is possible that earth leakage could fluctuate depending on the...

I have a relatively cheap one and it’s help narrow down 2 fault today at a park lodge site… one was water in a wiska box for some trace...

Lets assume you have spent mega-bucks and now have a 100% accurate meter that gives you earth leakage readings around the tails to two...

Welcome to the forum.. A timer fan has 3 wiring connections A permanent live.. (to keep the timer function working) A switched live...

E17 is used for some microwave oven lamps...

Try it with just a manual switch instead of the timer for a while see if the problem persists..

Why wouldn't you be conducting a 5x RCD test 9 years ago???? :oops::eek: The BS7671 I was working to around the 2016 to 2017 era...

Why would you be conducting a 5 x (RCD) Residual Current Device test?