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    Armed Forces Answering Machine

    British Army answering machine message Thank you for calling the British Army. I'm sorry, but all our units are out at the moment, or are otherwise engaged. Please leave a message with your country, name of organisation, the region, the specific crisis and a number at which we can call you. As...
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    Coughing Cavalier

    Charlie is now nine and has been diagnosed with a heart murmur, but seems fine in himself. Recently though he started coughing. It's as though he has something stuck in his throat, but nothing comes up. My daughter has taken him to the vets three times and three times he has been diagnosed with...
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    Conduit factors

    Good afternoon Gentlemen. I'm in the process of rewiring my garage so that I can join one of those fantastic schemes for my Part P. Question is this. looking at the OSG about conduit factors (Table 5D), it says about bends. Is this just bends in the actual conduit or does this include such...
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    Kitchen Cabinet Lighting

    Hi guys. Just want some advice please. Kitchen due to be plastered in next seven days, and customer has kitchen arriving on the 20th June (Lights arriving with kitchen) Lights are 12v. My question is, how do I wire in these lights and transformers after ceiling is up and plasteed along with...
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    Potentially Dangerous job

    Just been asked to look at a couple of circuits in local pub. First one was fed from 32A mcb to a 40 circuit breaker which fed a single socket in the kitchen of the pub. First thought was Why have the 40A CB there in the first place. Also both CB and socket were screwed to metal backboard...
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    ID Fraud

    Just thought I'd make you all aware to be vigilant about this subject, as I'm a victim of these scumbags. They wanted to transfer a couple of grand out of my account (wish I had it). Don't know where they got all my info from, but the bank said they passed all security questions, but the girl...
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    Lighting circuit tripping RCD

    Just carried out CU change in a property, and put downstairs lights on one side and upstairs lights on other. Upstairs lights tripped all the time, so put it on same RCD as downstairs. Now ok. Is there a crossover of neutrals somewhere in the circuit, and if so whats the best plan of attack...
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    Part P Doctor Second Fix

    Hi all Just purchased this book: Fantastic!!! Anyway, On page 47, bottom diagram, it states that the garage DB has a rating of 32A, and a 16mm2 line. in the OSG table 7.1 the highest cable size for a 32A mcb is 10mm2, and for 16mm2 cable a 40A mcb is stated. My question is, what am I missing...
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    Qualifications Required

    Hi all. Just joined forum, quite good so far. Anyway, question is this. Looking at other threads noticed a varying degree of qualifications. I have completed C&G 2381 with C&G 2382 upgrade and those "very good organisations" like NAPIT, NICEIC Etc say that is all I need to be...
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    Earth Fault Loop Impendance

    Hi there. I'm new to this forums lark, so pleasde bear with me. here goes! My question is: In chap 4, table 41.2 to 41.4. of the 7671 it gives a list of pre determined figures for Max Zs, but in appendix 14 it gives a formula to work it out. The formula gives completely different measurements...
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