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So how do I go about doing notifiable work on his house or can I simply not? Surely as a member of Select (I know it’s Scotland only) but surely it carries some for of sign of competence?

Hi everyone, So good friend of mine has bought a house in Berinsfield and has asked if I can help with any electrical issues. Now I live in Scotland, did my apprenticeship here etc etc. Now my question is, can I go down and work on his house etc. not entirely sure of the extent of the work yet...

I’ll take a couple of photos of the set up

The VSD and drive motors are all supplied from the parlour company and have been fitted before so I assume they are all compatible. What I have also learned is they go through motor overloads first which I haven’t seen before, usually it’s drive to motor with nothing in between. I also assumed...

I said that to the guy that in a few years time your SY braiding will be rotting away whislt your armour will be good for the lifespan of the parlour lol

After speaking with one of the parlour fitters technical guys we’ve agreed on leaving the armour in, Earth at both ends (which it would have been anyway) and using foil wrapped SY from drive to overload box and from isolator to motor lol I’ve used armour and SY before in the same combination...

Afternoon all, Currently fitting electrical items along side rotary milking parlour fitters and we’ve came to a disagreement. The 3 drive motors are in the centre and require power to them. It’s all fed from a VSD now I didn’t know this at the time and have run 3 x SWA cables from Plant room...

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Each phase has 3 x 2kw elements attached to it so in my mind it was simple P=I/V I = P/V 6000/230 = 26.08A Which then let to me thinking each phase passing it’s current back through a common neutral which left me with 78.26A to return down the neutral line, but now that it all works out as a...

Aw so is it basically like a Star point

Yeah they all come on together. I assumed since it was effectively 3 x 2kw elements lumped together you’d get neutral current

Hi guys, So I do a lot of work in agricultural settings and currently doing a new large dairy unit. 50 or 54 point rotary with everything from cooling compressors to vacuum pumps and beyond. Now my question comes in the form of this The plant water heater is huge, it contains 3 x 6kw elements...

I was trying to be funny……obviously didn’t come across that way 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

So in a nutshell……Codebreakers is ok if you’re starting out……as long as you don’t edit the original post……

Are you actually serious?! You’re correcting the fact that he called it “a hoover”. I bet your a rare laugh down the “public house” For the fact that, from the OP it sounds like it’s been a socket fitted out in the hall it’s not likely to have heavy loaded appliances plugged into then it...

That’ll be a no to buying it then 😂😂 I agree, you need years of experience to do EICR’s. Especially to deal with older installations, but how do you gain experience without a guide?

Evening all, having a look through the lovely Amazon today and Napit’s codebreakers was a suggested purchase for me. Now my question is, is it worth it or is it not?

Why does the customer need to learn? Yes you are correct, the customer expects us to be experts however I’ve never came across someone who didn’t think I knew what I was doing simply because I called it a fuseboard instead of a consumer unit. I’m there to install circuits, fault find or...

I still come across lots of fuse boards in continued use and will likely continue to do so for some time. I also find it easier to ask customers about their “fuse board, fuse box, trip box, breaker board” because that’s what people understand. Why do you need to correct people about it?