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Just make sure you can see how the job is gonna take shape, height access is always slower especially moving scaffold or trying to run beam clips and cable if your working alone.

it was a few years ago now, i wasnt sure how long it would take so i agreed an hourly rate plus materials. If you can see how you can do the job and allow for any problems then put a price that your happy with, i was happier with an hourly rate as i wasnt gonna loose out.. :^O

I have done a couple of stables, As dave said, nothing in where the horses are kept and lighting high up out the way as posible as horses sometimes like to rear up on their hind legs. i ran mine in swa and used mk masterseal sockets and switches. all out of horsey reach. also if you suffer...

some photo cells will operate by switching the power off and on again quickly, so although there may not be an intentional overide switch, if the power to the photocell has been interupted, it could leve the light perm on untill it is switched off again. To try this just kill the power to the...

http://i983.photobucket.com/albums/ae312/ian-speirs/DSC00408.jpg No fancy camera, just mobile and the boy. :^O

Not trying to start this going again but in the electrical safety councils booklet for periodic inspection codes, it says if you find "circuits with ineffective over current protection ( Due, for example, to oversized fusewire in rewireable fuses)" These should be given a code 1. So if you find...

Cheers guys, thats how i want to do it, just seems i have to invent a main DB i.e. call it meter db before it splits to others, Maybe speak to the boss about easy cert. :Salute

Hi, does anyone use the nic software to fill in pir results. I was asked to take the laptop on site and fill it in the other day, it was the first time i had used it and was only shown briefley how to build the report up. I was testing in a very small church with a 3 phase tn-s supply, tails...

The circut is rcd protected, i wondered why it didnt trip either at first but realised that i touched both live and neutral. So in effect my finger became the load for a split second, there was no fault to earth so rcd wont trip and no overload fault either cos 3A plugtop fuse was still healthy...

Ha, felt like it could have been, More a fright than anything else. That reminds me, i never picked up my screwdriver from behind the chair when i threw it in the air. :^O

I unscrewed the cover at the end and pulled the connector out, cant be done without unscrewing. It was just me not being very safe and not unplugging the damn thing.

i cant see any problem with the design. just the person who forgot to unplug before taking it apart! I totally agree andy, the point i was trying to emphisize was in the comfort of my own home i wasn't paying attention like i would in my working environment. When elictricity is involved you...

My partner asked me to have a look at her GHD hair straightners this morning as they kept cutting out when she was using them. So with my morning cuppa:coffee and tv on i sat on the sofa to have a look. First i switched them on and wiggled the cord and sure enough, the power inicator flickered...

A fry up now needs bacon, sausage, beans, mushrooms, fried/scrambled egg, toast, black pudding, lambs kidney and a slice of fried breads if I'm feeling naughty. If I discover any more requirements I'll need some bigger plates. mmm - I'm masticating thinking about it. haggis is always a welcome...

Hi, my name is Ian. Started life out in this industry as a P.A.T tester 13 years ago. I got more involved on the tools side of things as an electricians mate and decided enough was enough, so sat my 2330 level 2 and 3 and 17th edition. also the 2391 test and inspect last week. think i,ve passed...

nope, it will not trip mate,

If you are putting one probe of your voltage tester on the live conductor at the light switch and the other probe on the switched live in the light switch, then there will be virtually no differance in potential as you are testing the same conductor. your tester measures the potential voltage...

if the earth is not connected to the earthing system, i.e. the twin and earth is exposed at the light switch, but say is broken in the jb or light pendant. if you test between the live in the switch and the earth cable then dependeing on the length of the cable your reading will differ to that...

Hi paul, sometimes when you test for voltage and your reference, usually the earth wire in the back box, might not actually be connected at the other end which will give you false readings. :coffee

:yellow card :yellow card :red card well, someone must have seen this coming.. :good night: