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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...

I did it out of curiosity, I was about to turn items on to load up the board and get a max demand and with no loads on I got 150-170mA on Earth. (I know I don’t need to clamp Earth when doing max demand, I just stuck in on there to see if I was getting anything) What I can’t understand is when...

The NFU aren’t pushing for it but they are more expensive like 3-4 thousand a year more expensive 🙈 however the insurance brokers that are pushing it have told us that anything insured over 1 mil is automatically required to have it so is the NFU under insuring property’s? Or is it because they...

The only thing that I could think of that would have largeish capacitors would be the VFD for the new vacuum pump but it hasn’t been powered up yet.

I have a single phase 80-100A supply with TN-S. Overhead line to transformer then 300mish of underground cable. My Ze is 0.38Ohms I am hoping it’s an external issue as then it’s SP’s problem 😂 No I haven’t yet, but I will clamp my Line and Neutral tails in the morning when I return. If I’m...

Thought that to begin with but it stayed steady over a period of 5-10 minutes

80% of my work is agricultural and it’s a nightmare most times, people just don’t get it and think that just because it’s worked for 30 years then it’ll be fine. 🤦🏻‍♂️ I’m not sure about down across the border but a couple of insurance brokers up here are requiring EICR’s on all farm buildings...

Hi everyone, So today I finished wiring a DB to supply milking robots, turned it on and everything was going swimmingly till I put my Earth leakage clamp on and found I had 150-170mA on the main DB earth, but yet no rcbo’s tripping, so switched the board off and it was still there so I assumed...

Just as a follow up, I contacted Hager and they have advised just to use the standard 3 phase surge 🤷🏻‍♂️ so that’s what I’m getting haha

Hi everyone, Starting a new install today and have picked up a 3phase Hager board but plan on linking to convert it to single phase. Now my question is, how do I fit surge to this? Usually the 3phase Hager surge sits next to the main switch and each phase feeds into its own surge device. Can I...

My go to downlight and I know people’s thoughts on integral units but I used Bell Firestay downlights. Fire rated, dimmable and IP rated, 60-70mm hole I think and comes in white with a magnetic brushed chrome bezel. Also comes with push fit terminals and plug and socket style connector so can be...