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It’s 100% single phase, kinda sad that I’m not going back to get more involved

So since it looks like I won’t be getting any more pictures of this starter and motor, my question has now changed to What could it have been? There was 5 wires to the motor, 3 black - 6mm² ish size and 2 Red - 1.5mm² ones. The system is old, pre Brooke Crompton 2000 series I’m told, no...

I’ll try get more pictures but it currently seems it’s being passed onto a motor rewind company to sort it out

Hi all, so I came across a motor starter today on a farm. It’s attached to a 5.5kw single phase motor for brushing barley. Now the starter is causing issues but trying to source a replacement is becoming an issue. Now, and this is where I need help, to me it works and looks like a Star/Delta...

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Evening all, currently working on a main intake refurb on a farm. 200A Single phase supply incoming which I need to split at the changeover switch to feed a DB and a separate supply to the dairy unit outside. My question is, can I use a TP mccb and run live and neutral through it as I need to go...

So over the years I’ve heard and seen people complaining in the Englandshire region of people becoming “electricians” from 5 week courses etc. etc. Now being form North of the border in sunny Scotland, I’ve always looked over the fence and thought god I’m glad we don’t have that up here…maybe...

Freeeeee electricity for eveerrr 😂😂

We had this issue before, customer was convinced she had a wiring problem in her upstairs lighting, couldn’t find anything wrong but her LED lamps were failing after a day, or flickering off and on. Tested the voltage, 248V (Farm fed off its own pole mounted transformer). Checked the lamps that...

Sadly not, so I ended up at the job and learned that the drives were in built to the motors which I’d never seen before. The motor/drives were sat on a pallet and the guy came a few days later to collect. I’ll see if I can find out anything as it would be good to know

Spoke to the fan supplier today and they’re coming out Monday to find out what’s happened. I’ll see if there’s any info in said 14 language manual 😂 I wouldn’t like to think that they were switched off and on several times but it might have been. Our other guy who turned them off has been told...

Hi everyone Fitted some big agricultural fans this week and one of the guys when back to adjust the louvres to direct the air. Both fans are controlled by VSD’s and one controller, instead of turning them off at the controller he just switch them off whilst running, which to me is always a bad...

So, I was thinking again today (dangerous,I know😂) If your 2.5/1 didn’t meet the max Zs value, could you then get past this by fitting an RCBO and using it as fault protection as well as additional?

You are right, it’s hard not to continue to use the laymen’s terms lol

You are absolutely right, I have no issue with asking questions that might seem obvious for some but totally alien to others. “He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever”. Again it doesn’t help when others are passing on information...

Well…..that answers that then….thanks everyone 😃

I was under the impression that it didn’t comply and there for had to be rewired? Which equals a sad day for the customer who now needs to pay for such things to happen

Hi everyone So I had a thought the other day. The old style T+E which had 2.5mm² conductors and a 1mm² Earth which doesn’t satisfy the Earth size etc. and I know that if you find it on an EICR it’s a sad day for the customer etc etc. However, my question is, If you fitted an RCBO to the...

It would indeed….farmer has already bought, fitted and is using his winch so sadly that can’t be done lol

Hi everyone, So farmer has bought himself a winch from toolstation and created his own lifting gate so he’ll hold cows in a pen to be put through the robot to be milked…..anywhooo it had a hand controller attached to it and it dangles down in the middle of the gate. He wants a set of controls...