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This made me laugh, I remember some years ago when they started producing fireproof boards, I was at an elex and a manufacturer was showing me a board it had glands for the holes in the top of the board but nothing for the large knockout in the rear. When I asked about sealing this I was told it...

when testing anything you will always have a degree of capacitance, this will cause the light to flash momentarily, on the last video where it's showing a voltage thats just an induced from a nearby cable. all cables have some degree of magnetic field around them, more if the cable is carrying a...

One of the biggest problems with diy electrics for me is the way people do things, they seem to buy exactly the length they need, or think they need, and no more. So they decide lets say that they're going to spur off a socket to feed another one and measure the length they need and they buy it...

On the subject of induced voltages,or capacitive coupling, I remember a long time ago in my early days I was doing some alterations at my mothers house. I had a cable that I knew was totally disconnected at the mains end yet whilst removing the other end from its connections at an isolator, the...

Well I've just about had enough of it all now, I think it's time we all grabbed our pitchforks and flaming torches and marched on downing street! Boris the knob has totally ballsed it up over the weekend, he's going to play mix and match with vaccines, against the makers advice, he wants all the...

I have several at work in our fields, you get that a lot on a farm, lol, anyway we had a run of 11kv overhead alongside the field by the house and to be honest it got to be a pain in the arse. However I was building some new stores and needed a new feeder so I decided to see how far I could push...

I,d just like to wish all my dear friends on here a very very happy new year and I genuinely mean that, in these difficult times we face we must do our best and make the best of the situation and just be glad we are still here, you never know what is around the next corner. A year ago we had...

So finally the truth is out, Kerching is a Tory MP, well it had to come out eventually, lol. In the meantime our local force have set up roadblocks tonight checking everybody going in and out of the city (Liverpool), as a lot of others have said it's a pity it wasn't over the last few weeks...

Best one is to contact the manufacturer, they are pretty helpful normally, I do have an idea about how it would be wired using the cable you describe but I won't say anything without seeing it, as I said it can get very expensive if it all goes wrong, good luck with it anyway.

The problem is a lot of us know about 3 phase but without a schematic drawing or pictures of the isolator etc we haven't much of an idea, normally using that cable you could take a stab at the colours but as I said it could get very expensive if you get it wrong, a 3 phase 4 core flex is...

Oh Andy, don't! I van see it now, give it a couple of weeks and we'll be innundated with questions about how to terminate the string into a cat 5 socket, lol. Anyway mate, all the best for the new year, I hope you have some kind of a deccent one.

We're going back into tier 3 and I must admit the wholething is starting to badly affect me mentally at the moment I'm ashamed to say, recently I have taken to sleeping as much as possible, it gets the day over, I have almost no work coming in, I an't get my head around the benefits system, and...

Agree with a lot of the other comments made on here, if you are not experienced with 3 phase electrics you could end up doing a lot of damage, I've known certain types of machine 'written off' by getting the direction of phase roatation wrong, I assume you have saved a few quid by buying the...

The funny thing was Andy, that as soon as I mentioned cable, his first comment was "yeah, they should be wired in 10mm shouldn't they", that made me laugh,now ok I knew it wasn't a cooker that required a 10mm, but the hilarious thing was that even though the guy thought it should have been wired...

I had an interesting conversation regarding cookers this morning, my neighbour had purchased a new cooker from a well known retailer of domestic appliances and computers, he'd also paid the £50 installation fee. The van arrived with the cooker in it and the men to fit it, a young lad in his...

Had a real heartbreaker just before Christmas, a young man came to the hospital my wife works at, one of those small community hospitals, his elderly mother (95) was on the ward here, it's called the 'respite' ward, but most people on there are dying, as we used to say, they're on their last...

Ok so as you know I won those holesaws in the Armeg competion, so having given them a try I thought it was time to do a bit of a review of them.overall they are very good, it's a bit strange when you look at the cutting edge and then send it into a piece of steel trunking, it really doesn't look...

Binky, I have come up with something that may solve that problem, as some of you (my close friends) will know, apart from electrics my only other work has been as a dog handler and this is where it gets interesting, excuse me if I drift a little, but I'm not too well at the minute, mentally, but...

so that's it then guys, we are all in agreement for once, shock horror, I never thought I'd live to see that day, lol. so the final conclusion agreed unanimously by a panel of highly skilled and very experienced electricians is this, the rest of the world is a set of absolute chunts, placed on...

Yes, I have one of those new led martindales, that adds the load when you press the buttons,one way or another I always like to see an RCD trip at an actual point of use, I've always thought what the reaction of a coroner would be if someone did get a scenario where when tested at the DB a...