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The house with the most failures is not high voltage also the house had a new re-wire and is all on point. When they have failed it has been one fitting go at a time over the space of a few months and weeks in some cases. The latest ones installed have been in a month before Christmas tops and...

The quality of the fitting is good. Just the reliability of them in my case. The odd few have failed in more than one house I have fitted them in. And the fact they changed the inline connector was a bit of a nuisance aswell as in one house where a few failed in different rooms needed the inline...

Been a while since I have posted on the forum. Just curious if anyone has installed any luxna led downlights. Only because over the past year or so I have fitted probably around 50 plus in various homes and in one case one home has had about 8 of them burn out. Latest ones I have put in over...

Hi,  recently I had installed a 25mm swa of a 80amp isolation switch which was terminated into an adaptable box then into a Henley block.  Of my Henley block I was going to be distributing to 2 cu's. At the moment I was going to use 25mm tails but after thinking about this I was wondering...

That's why I'd use some chunky trunking to contain the cable or I would end up using a metal box to take the swa and then glands to take cables singly to kmf.  Just thought if trunking was butted up to the kmf it would look neater

Was thinking to have a big enough trunking that will be between the swa and switch, therefore have a gland on the swa attached to trunking and cable to go through another drilled hole in trunking to the switch. 

Hi haven't made a post in a long time but this issue has got me thinking. This is the 1st time I have had the consumer unit quite a distance from the meter. Needed some advice in making sure I am making the right decision. currently I have been working in a house that did have three cu's, two...

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Yes, 18 gu10 mains dimmable leds.

Standard dimmer. Ive realised now i need an led dimmer. Found out tlc direct do the modules for a tenner so hopefully it will solve the problem

Hi I have a problem with dimmable leds. Currently i have 18 dimmable leds on a dimmer switch that is ment to handle the minimum load and max load. They still flicker when turned on. Does anybody k ow what would be the cause of this?

Cheers sharpend. 20a double poles it will be.

thanks again. I will be supplying the outlet plate with a 6mm cable, the two outlets i will run into two switched fused spurs which will then go to each cooker so i can isolate them individually. That's my plan for the morning :D

I was thinking that to Andy. It would be good to know if anybody else has done this. Even though the calculations add up and nothing in the regs says you cant I haven't done it this way before and in the back of my mind it feels as though I am taking a chance. I don't really want to take a...

Hi I need some advice on this one. In a kitchen that I am working on there is a siemens 7 kw hob and two siemens 3.6kw ovens. There are two 6mm cables that are run to the area of the ovens and hob. one of the cables I am going to use for the hob on a 32amp mcb. With the other 6mm cable I was...

Im trying at the moment to look at installing freeview hd and sky hd through out a house in 6 - 8 rooms. all I know so far is to use wp100 cable for the sky and coax for freeview. I would still like some advice on if I am to use powered amplifiers, splitters etc.

Thanks Deke.

Hi everyone. I just needed a bit of advice if I was doing the right thing. Bathroom extractor fan - I have run of the lighting in the bathroom with an isolation switch outside the bathroom. I heard something about if there is a window in the bathroom there was no need for an Isolation switch...

 I would usually run the smoke alarms from the nearest lighting circuit. And usually in a standard size home for power and lighting I would have on one rcd ground floor lighting, kitchen power and 1st floor power and another rcd would have 1st floor lighting and ground floor power.  This would...

Thanks Andy, much appreciated,  just registered for the electrical contractors handybook :D