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    Is wattage rating of a VFD split between 3 phases?

    I would say that 21A sounds about right, that would equate to an apparent power of 14.5kw (4.83kw on each phase) Of course if not fully mechanically loaded, you'dd draw less power and you could follow marvo's advice to look at the data from the VFD. It all depeneds on what you want to know and...
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    Setting digital timer on electric wall mounted heaters

    Normally fit these: https://www.manrose.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/doc/cataloguepage/Panel_Heater_Datasheet.pdf as thats what the wholesaler I use gnerally carries, now there is some setting up to do, but I don't find it too bad, you get a representation of a clock face on the LCD and you go...
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    RIP Sidewinder

    Very sorry to hear this, he always seemed to be the one that could provide the answers when no one else knew, and helped me out a good few times. I knew he was very ill, but didn't realise he was this close to the end, thought he was still struggling on, although, to him I imagine it was...
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    Any telephone bods on here?

    A normal BT / Uk style telephone plug will have the A and B pair on 2 and 5, think its B on 2 and A on 5 but don't quite me on that. I'm uessing you are probably best buying a couple of BT to RJ11 leads...
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    New member

    I'm always reminded of the commericial EICR where the clients staff assisted with things like ensuring all equipment was plugged back in afterwards, any moved furniture pushed back, etc on the weekend we had a shutdown. We'd just finished in the canteen area, and the H&S chap was keen to get...
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    Maximum Demand exceeded

    2kw for a 4 bed home with gas heating was the figure I remembered. of course EV charging changes the profile quite a bit which is why you are supposed to notify them. Bear in mind these are across whole housing estates and theres quite a long integration period involved in that average, and...
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    Maximum Demand exceeded

    I always liked phase uttered by the chairman of the association of structural engineers many years ago, which I think fits quite well here (as it does to a lot of things in the engineering world) I can show you a complex with 50/60 retirement flats (each with electric cooker, water heating...
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    Connecting Machine to 3 phase isolator switch

    If its a plastic cassed isolator, then whoever fitted it, ought to have fitted a link to the earth terminal off the banjo tag https://www.electricpoint.com/media/catalog/product/cache/d4899413b50b1a3a0f3f4e7fe5351c12/e/a/earth-tag-25mm-brass-spare-banjos-for-swa-gland-kits.jpg or they might...
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    Western Digital Personal Cloud Devices Hack Attack....

    Always amuses me when I see a van with a gmail or hotmail address on the side of it, the lastest one was a pizza restaurant the missues went to on friday with friends, found the receipt with the left overs she brought back and printed under the address was [email protected]...
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    Western Digital Personal Cloud Devices Hack Attack....

    I've just seen in the news that the microsoft outlook cloud email service used to give people 15gb for emails and attachments, but has now decided to amalgamate outlook and open drive (which gives 5gb) services thats all well and good, but apparently attachements now come out of the 5gb one...
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    Western Digital Personal Cloud Devices Hack Attack....

    https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_cloud.png
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    When is £200 less than £184 ? 🤔

    I suspect that whats happening is that the system is looking at what is going onto the account in total, so DD + £67 from energy support scheme, so £184.01+£67.00=£251.01. And expecting that this does not get decreased, but now we have reached the last month in the scheme* its now looking at...
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    Armeg - British Manufacturer

    The thing is, theres not a whole lot of the manufacturing left, after it all got sold down the river in the 80's and then in 90s the other side decided anyone who can count ought to go straight into uni after finishing school..... and then we wonder why the Germans seem to do much better in the...
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    No Earth

    I would suspect that the service had is SNE / or has been configured for SNE when its not a SNE service. Chances are PME is available and it needs setting up as CNE. WT henley site says the series 8 cutout is suitable for SNE and CNE supplies, but has a different order code for CNE and SNE...
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    No Earth

    What exactly has been done? Has the intake been moved (in which case the DNO will be upset when they find out), or have the tails simply been run through the house to a remote DB location (in which case, what about overcurrent protection, routing in prescribed zones and RCD protetcion for...
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    Wanted Wylex 30 amp type 2 fuses

    I can only see HB30s in that box, the HB breakers being for the three phase boards, if you put them in a domestic board they go, but look stupid and the plastic *** rests on the breaker switch, you see the mix up the other way around more ofte though with the NBs put in a three phase board of...
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    Wanted Wylex 30 amp type 2 fuses

    Nice to meet a fellow hoarder, Its only occasionly that I need something from the all the old stuff ive got stored, but I definatly couldn't get rid of it, because there will definatly be ones that I will use eventually, even if most of it just sits for 20 years....
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    EV Charger Installation

    Bearing in mind the building regs (part p) completeion cert is issued by the scheme he is registered with, he owes you the notification to them, and the EIC but once that is done, the actual issuing is out of his hands and will be as fast or slow as they work. The EIC I would expect he would...
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    EICR

    Yeah I think the adibatic comes out at about 1.15mm² In reality it won't fail as such (only fail to meet the requirements), just that the copper in your 70Deg PVC sheath might exceed the 160 degree its allowed to reach by the end of the fault, of course we are assuming its running at 70Deg to...
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