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    Ouch (Important warnings to all working around electricity)

    Ok I'll consider myself officially put in my place :-)
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    Hello Fello Sparks

    Unfortunatly working for someone I don't get that choice otherwise I'd do the same, I know my patch as Iv lived here all my life but I don't know how people can work in such grubby houses, I know commercial and industrial can be as dirty if not more but in someone's house it seem so much more...
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    Ouch (Important warnings to all working around electricity)

    I think we have gone off track a little here as I'm aware of what would happen in that situation, I was more suprised that all the other electrics still worked like the PIR's and the stereo and also my battery charger where dc will have been used in its workings. I feel as if your labelling me...
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    Hello Fello Sparks

    I prefer the whole set up in commercial and industrial personally, and yes I know exactly what you mean by cant get out quick enough sometimes, I left one house cleaner than when I entered,
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    Ouch (Important warnings to all working around electricity)

    Im quite aware what alternating current is, but the electrics inside some equipment is converted to dc and uses diodes in one form or another like a battery charger, my fault for assuming they wouldn't work if polarity is reversed.
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    Ouch (Important warnings to all working around electricity)

    it's surprising the fact there was no signs of anything wrong i.e everything working as it should and had been for a number of months, i even think i had my makita charger charging battery's fine from one of the sockets, but yes i can't deny that test and test again is the best and only way...
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    Ouch (Important warnings to all working around electricity)

    i was pulling the cables into the board hadn't even started terminating yet so hadn't the need to test anything, even so i'v never wanted to trust a neon screwdriver, i'v got high and a low voltate fluke pen testers for quick voltage tests when needed, and they have never let me down.
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    Hello Fello Sparks

    hi i'm a sparks working the birmingham area used to be just a commercial sparks working the london area but misses came along and now i'm mainly doing local domestic work, to be honest i hate it but it's not out of town all week and i'm home every night albeit late half the time, been doing this...
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    Ouch (Important warnings to all working around electricity)

    a while back i was working on a massive house round my area, i was having to work on a local board in the garage i was pulling feeds in for the underfloor heating pumps and port heads into the board when i got a proper belt off the neutral bar, wondering why this had happened i got the tester...
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