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  1. K

    Hager Recall

    Well, done my checks only four boards all on one site, no breakers to report. Submitted bill and been paid, works for me... all good
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    Talking about apprenticeships

    I have one, was a lot harder to find the right candidate for my type of business than I expected. So if the colleges are struggling to find places for apprentices and businesses (like mine at least) struggle to find the right candidate, something must be seriously wrong. All I wanted was. 1...
  3. K

    1/10,000th

    Cat has never been the same since I shorted the cap in the lounge when he was fast asleep. Pure Kurt.
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    1/10,000th

    Thought so.... BTW its P&S have changed my name. If its industrial and (not ideal conditions) , I measure the IR simply to make sure it does not go bang. I like the idea of 1/10000 though as its at least a guide. Did I tell you the story where I IRd a new drum of cable just before install...
  5. K

    1/10,000th

    as in   measuring leakage as a fraction of load current ?
  6. K

    Hager Recall

    https://www.hager.co.uk/forms
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    Second year apprentice looking for a new employer - Plymouth

    mmm, see your point, well if you are getting plenty on jobs for write up for NVQ, maybe sleeping dogs etc, however  I  received £1500 from the training provider for the support of an  apprentice in my company. He would need a good reason to let you go and would probably have to cough the £1500...
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    Second year apprentice looking for a new employer - Plymouth

    No harm in writing to said employer and stating the facts wrt wage rates, sorry I missed your age bit. When I was your age I was always correcting my employer wrt the pay as they were not very good at it. In the end whilst still an apprentice, I was invited to help out in the wages office...
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    Second year apprentice looking for a new employer - Plymouth

    Apprentice rates are £3.40/hr from this month was previously £3.30. They are a different rate than age related minimum wage because of the going to college factor etc. See if your college can help find another employer, although I think they may well be a bit reluctant as they are so hard to...
  10. K

    Electronic circuit issue.

    what about clipping the ac, if the waveform is lettuced anyway, then it cannot hurt anymore. ..lol
  11. K

    Electronic circuit issue.

    Can you not just crowbar the ac ?
  12. K

    RAKO advice for extension / renovation

    Depends how you want to do it, I,m not attempting to provide a design, just throwing thoughts out of my head.. you will know what load you want to put on each cct out of the Rak4 and you may want some basic elelctrical separation for upstairs and downstairs or east and west. If you really want 8...
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    RAKO advice for extension / renovation

    If you have not done this before. Buy a roll of T&E, assume you want to use 1.0mm or 1.5mm and cut 32 lengths say a foot long. This will give you some idea of the volume of cable involved and the issues you need to address in getting them to a common point (your rako rack) and plan out the...
  14. K

    Just wondering ......

    can you stick 500V on the legs, if not - another pain when testing. Only fitted two as I have managed so far to talk clients out of using them as they were bulky. However I have noticed they are slimming down and have already been asked to fit some on a new build.......
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     Engineering Industry Training Boards (EITB)

    Hi Tony, I was 16 years old and spent a year in an on-site training centre for a company that made gas cylinders and extruded pipe. It was nirvana for me. We did bench fitting, welding, turning, including grinding and shaping but the electrical stuff was not as impressive (basically a board with...
  16. K

    Testing circuits that use containment as CPC

    Be interesting to know what CSA gets put down for 20mm conduit drops out of 50mm trunking, lol
  17. K

    Hi!

    great stuff, sounds like you have cracked the fire issues, now just need to sort the "not killing anyone" bit.... lol
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    Plenty of Hot water - new pump - but slow, slow heat to radiators

    Yes it could be blockages or trapped air in the pipework, I work with a plumber who is ace at fixing these types of problems, there is a skill to it, where we mere mortals spend ages chasing our tails....
  19. K

    Eu Vote

    is there a parrot whoosh gif available?
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    Eu Vote

    The whole point of the EU is to normalise all EU citizens to the same standard of living. In effect a united states of Europe. Its the pesky Brits that keep messing up the works by not joining the Euro and now heaven forbid want to hold a vote on the whole project. The economics are not rocket...
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