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Most aircraft cables are terminated br crimping

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I am trying to find the definitive answer to how to correctly terminate twin and earth cable. Should cables be doubled back before termination or left as a single strand? When would you use one method and not the other? Does the size of cable make a difference? Does the number of conductors...

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As this is a DIY section could we have a list of abbreviations, sometimes reading some answers is a bit like me using aircraft talk to someone who dose not fully understand aerodynamics i.e.

On checking resistance between hot & cold pipes and radator, found very high. Did a physical check of central heating system and found that although pipes where bonded going into combi boiler I found that the cental heating pipes leaving the combi passed through ceiling, two plastic...

I have just replaced the radiator in bathroom and noticed there is no bonding on pipework. Hot and cold water pipes and metal bath are all bonded. As the bathroom is protected by RCD, if the resistance between the radiator and the cpc is less then 1667 ohms then no supplementary bonding is...

I have swaped RCD with one on the supply to my workshop, fault transfered to workshop. Bathroom now fine, faulty RCD replaced free of charge by supplier.

The fan has built in sensor & timer so not dependant on lights being on. The curcuit has been working fine for about a week then then last night lights and fan not working but RCD not tripped! Manually tripped and reset RCD Lights working again. checked cuircuit for lose connections all OK...

1. Not to 17th addition spec 2. No 3. PVC rewired in last 10 years. 4. New LED down lighters. 5. Not known 6. Approx 10 years MCB's 7. Yes 8. No

I have recently replaced the fused spur suppling power to my bathroon lights & extracter fa with a saftysure RCD. The rcd tripped when the fan cut in so I disconected fan which fixed the problem. I have now replaced extracter fan and all was well for a week, but RCD has now tripped a couple...