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Neutral does carry current and that current will take the easiest rout.

Industrial installations are by nature TN-S unless dispensation is granted. Public supplies can be any mix of TN-S, TN-C-S, PME or TT. Read this. Have a look at this.

Talk to your local fire prevention officer. A UPS is fallible, I’ve had a couple fail on critical systems. In each case they had been sat there for years and never had to kick in until needed, then they fell flat on their face. All we lost was data, you’re talking about life.

Precious metals went berserk but are settling down now. Pity I hadn’t the cash to buy yesterday.

I can just imagine the screw up the DWP would make of this. It would equate to a secondary currency with an even more incompetent treasury.

So would you stop my disability payments? I’ve paid more than my fair share in to the system, to get anything back I had to take the DWP to court twice. I was forced to retire at 56 due to ill health, all I could get was “job seekers allowance”. Three years of fighting made my health worse...

In the 90’s I put a cable installed in the 30’s back in service, it’s still there as far as I know. Harmonics, along with joints and tee offs are the main problem. An old 0.3²in PILC will stand a higher load than its equivalent 195mm² PVC. The down side is the PILC cables will be 3½ core. EV’s...

One classic was the great white chief phoning me, “where are you?” At the time I was balanced on stepladders on top of a 120ft high crane with my left hand fingers in a hunting tooth limit switch. The reply once I’d got the phone out of my pocket using my right hand would get me banned from...

Look at Waitrose for Schneider Brot German vollkornbrot. I’ll admit I took a liking to “black bread”. Just to upset my son I’ve ordered a large jar of sauerkraut for Christmas, he can’t stand the smell but we’ll be fighting over the German sausages and cheeses.

They even had the phone numbers of the pubs I drank in!

My first mobile was in the 90’s, calls cost a small fortune. Someone calling you paid a premium. BT landline call forwarding was daylight robbery. Back then plant maintenance electricians didn’t normally carry a mobile and filofax but I was running two businesses on the side. My big mistake was...

That's going back to before I was born. Is it still going?

I've had the same AOL e-mail account for the last twenty years with no problems.

I hardly eat any bread and have an aversion to brown, a former partner insisted I ate it. Ate it? I hated it, cheap carp from Tesco. Long gone are the days of the local baker, good home made bread, pies and my favourite oat cakes.

I switched from Chrome to FireFox, still the same result. Things are back to normal now so no worries.

120V or 230V to earth is the norm throughout the world. I'm not sure about Outer Mongolia.

It happens in all lines of our work. “I never touched it, it did it on its own.” “It was working OK and then stopped.” “It was in auto so nearly killing that guy wasn’t my fault.”

@ProMbrooke is American, test certificates don't exist.

Opening the top of a furnace over the top of a fitter’s tool bag didn’t make me popular. His bag and screwdrivers were on fire, me laughing didn’t help 😂