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Is your phone an option? Data plan permitting.. I use the BBC iplayer radio app.  Can listen to live or download the programmes after broadcast. 

Just a short post to say thank you to forum sponsor Megger Mark for sorting us out with 2 new multi function testers. Particularly happy with the price and the service. .  :signthankspin: :signthankspin: Phil

One step at a time.   You are making changes... You are getting treatment that will help you... You took the brave step to talk about it on here.  All of this is really positive.  Yes.. You will have set backs along the way... Everyone does... But things are improving for you. You are making...

You know you know your job. And you know you can perform the tasks in the trade test out in the field.  You are worrying about imaginary things that could go wrong in the test that haven't happened and are unlikely to happen. This might sound really daft. Give it a try. Imagine yourself taking...

Interesting...Thank you

Plastic enclosure distorting under the strain of incoming swa. 2.5mm cables protected by 63a fuse. And that was just the starting point

Thank you. I've caused a bit of stress over the last couple of days by telling a client that the panel as built and installed wasn't appropriate or safe for use. It was built on the continent and shipped here as part of a portable building.

I'm sorry..tta?

So does this mean if someone has built a low voltage switch panel (think of it as a TPN board with some added contactors in the enclosure) that it should have been tested during the design and build by the panel builder and there should be some sort of conformance certificate with it?

Sadly, it may well have done

Hi all, A customer of mine has had a distribution board built, using a 4 rail din enclosure.  mcb's and rcd's on one rail. main switch on another. Is there any regulation about the building and testing that should have been done during construction or am I imagining there is?? Thanks

Domestic CU change today. I used an Eaton 10 way Dual RCD board Initial thoughts Thought the board looked good. Crisp white in colour, rounded profile.  Very modern looking. Supplied with 1 x 80A RCD and 1 x 63A RCD + 10 x MCB.  I was charged £75 +  No grommit tape included Fitting The...

C2. Not dangerous as is, but dangerous under 1st fault conditions. That would be my view.

Wonder if expanding foam would do the job. Supporting it whilst the foam sets might be the problem though...hmmm I've also used stixall (i think it's called) It's a bit like gripfil, but it has a very high initial grab... It's about £7-8 a tube

Which road is that? Hope it's on the north of the city

Probably because people kept being electrocuted...

I've been thinking about that. No idea how old the installation is, but assume it's didn't require rcd protection when installed. Cables may have been buried in plastic conduit. Adequate protection?? The electrician would have no idea anything would be drilled into the floor at some time in the...

I know...

Met a friend today who told me about an incident that happened at the school she teaches at this week. Picture a school cafeteria with those chrome barriers that they use to divide the queues up between the tills.  A pupil decided to swing his feet of the ground by holding on to two of the...

I suppose you could argue that they are not fixed wiring.