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  1. J

    Bollard light replacements

    Hi, I'm a fairly newly qualified electrician and have had a callout to a car park with a number of the bollard LED lights not working. I've looked fairly extensively on the internet I can't find anything in stock, would anyone know where to get replacements for the lights in the pictures, or at...
  2. J

    swa garden lights

    I'm newly qualified and I'm going to install some garden lights for a client.  I asked another NICEIC electrician with some years behing him regarding the best way to go about it and he recommended terminating 4core swa cable straight into nylon stuffing glands and then just twisting and...
  3. J

    Insulation Resistance Testing of downlights

    I'm testing my own house and am just wanting to learn. Are insulation resistance tests ok to run on LED downlights or any types of downlights for that matter?  Am I right in thinking that I can just test my whole installation regardless of ELV devices if I carry out a COMBINED L+N to earth...
  4. J

    cooker off ring main

    My cooker is 2.95kw and is off of a 13a socket.   So according to my amazing mathematical genius mind  2950watts/240v = 12.29amps yippee it works But is this ok?  Bad workmanship?  Should I re-run this from it's own MCB off from the consumer unit, say maybe on an 16amp MCB for example. I...
  5. J

    Secondary consumer unit

    TL;DR is at the bottom of the page Hi thanks for reading I want to install a secondary consumer unit out to my garden shed.  I want a couple of double plug sockets, a shed light and some garden lights. I have a spare way in my current consumer unit. I plan to install an a2 radial circuit in...
  6. J

    Electric shock from kettle

    My girlfriend got a an electric shock off of the kettle the other day when she simultaneously came into contact with it's metal lid and the metal sink at the same time. Just to give some context I am a heating engineer so have alimited understanding of how electrical installations work.  So...
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