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    My first Distribution Board

    ^^ Exactly, and I have seen way too many times people have accidentally nicked the insulation when trying to cut off a cable tie. Solid core cables are pretty rigid and stay where you put them anyway.
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    My first Distribution Board

    Cable ties - arrgh!
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    CE equipment*

    See these all the time lately. We had some expensive peristaltic pumps from a market leader recently having IEC leads delivered with these unfused plugs fitted!
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    DNO ignores colour codes.

    The meter monkey should do a polarity test and mark them with L1 and N tape
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    Few pics of new jobs

    I have them the other side, so they illuminate the stairs but aren't generally visible.
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    300w inverter 12dc to 230vac

    The pure sine wave inverters will drive anything so long as they are correctly rated. They are however considerably more expensive. The majority of inverters out there are 'modified sine wave' inverters - basically outputting a square wave, and should only really be used for things that aren't...
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    Clamp Meter to measure voltage

    That isn't a clamp, it's just a plunger action hooked test probe piercing the insulation. :)
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    Danger Crap Wiring

    I do hope you labelled the board with the official lettering - "Danger, crap wiring" :)
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    Multiroom Audio

    If you're on a budget there's always the Logitech Squeezebox stuff. You can wander round with the remote (which you can also plug headphones into) and synch the players together or in groups if you want the same stuff on in different rooms. You can also get windows clients which make the...
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    instant water heaters

    ^^ Good post. I agree that stored hot water is the only way to go if electrically heating bath water. We have a 9.5kW instantaneous heater for the sink in the garage and downstairs WC (on other side of the wall) where it wasn't possible to get DHW from the boiler without going all the way round...
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    tncs ot tns

    It may well have a PME sticker since it has the provision for PME, but might still be a TN-S supply from earlier days. Best ask the DNO, or report a high Ze.
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    miniture LED's on tinternet??

    What about fibre optic lighting kits? Easier to install, and only one light source to go wrong.
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    Decent headphones

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    todays cctv job

    Are Disney TV's standard on your installs? :D
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    christmas lights 2010 :-)

    Need more cars.
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    Ideal Twister Wire Connectors

    Do you have some evidence of this? AFAIK they just went out of fashion when we started using solid core cable. If they bear a suitable BS number or CE mark they should be ok to use.
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    Cable cutters

    What's your point?
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    Cable cutters

    What's your point?
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    How to mend SWA? ( Using self amalgamating tape )

    Screwfix stock self amalgamating tape again for anyone that needs it: http://www.screwfix.com Quote No: 61749
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    iPhone or HTC Desire?

    Hardly... My iPhone 3G got repaired under warranty 3 times, despite me babying it the whole time! Towards the end of my contract it freezing or dropping calls.
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