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    Generator Transfer Switch?

    Definitely sounds like NAFFI standard. Often wondered how they make it. Sack of tea, couple of squaddie socks for flavour and boil for 24hrs. None of peppermint flavour decaf muck here! This mornings storm shenanigans and subsequent power cut provided the perfect opportunity to test things out...
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    Generator Transfer Switch?

    Hi Chaps, According to the neighbours the road used to get half a dozen powercuts a year, often lasting for hours at a time.  So there would have been some sense in having a generator hookup. This would almost certainly have been done in the early eighties. The guy who owned it then was not...
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    Generator Transfer Switch?

    Dunno about the sink but I'm sure it'd give your intestines a darn good scouring. Someone keeps giving me the stuff - `i gave the last bottle to a tree surgeon - figured it'd help him him get up and down the tree faster. He thought it was 2-stroke mix 'till he opened it. Then he thought I'd...
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    Generator Transfer Switch?

    Well I have an evil bottle of home brew tomato wine that my wife won't even use in the cooking.....
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    Generator Transfer Switch?

    Hi M107,  very many thanks for the offer. I'm not sure it's fair to waste any of your time yet. As I said it's only curiosity rather than a problem.  We will need a load of stuff doing at some stage in the future, so if it is Ok I'll PM you when we get to that point. I know Thatcham well, more...
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    Generator Transfer Switch?

    "only if they are 13a plugs"  When I was 11 or 12 - far too many moons ago - I picked up the end of one of leads that a builder had left plugged into a live socket. (In fairness this was in deepest Cornwall where electricity was a new fangled invention - still is in some places). It b****y...
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    Generator Transfer Switch?

    Thanks Technician. Mind you this box is the same width and height as a 16-way CU and twice as deep, and the SWA is 25mm. I sure wouldn't like to get in the way of any door it was powering!  Mind you I do live less than a mile from Aldermaston - so perhaps there is a nuclear bunker round here...
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    Generator Transfer Switch?

    Thanks Andy, looks like I need 5 posts to attach images - so three more to go. (The whole house is odd, Three CUs in the meter cupboard. Five more in various outside locations, ten light switches in the lounge. It all looks to have been done professionally but it sure looks like someone got a...
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    Generator Transfer Switch?

    Hi, In our meter cupboard we have a large switch box labelled B&P Controls BPDC 102PC. The switch has labelled positions Off, and 2. The switch is set to a third unlabelled position (meant to be 1?). Switchbox cabling consists of a pair of cables from the meter, a pair of cables to an...
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