Recent content by ericmark

I remember while still at home so likely around 1964 my dad buying a fluorescent lamp which plugged into the BA22d lamp socket. However latter when looking for a class II light fitting around 2006 I could not find any straight class II fluorescent fittings, however did find a 2D fitting which...

A bollard would have been a better option.

Yes but to charge at 7 kW in 5 hours that means maximum charge at cheap rate is 35 kWh, I would have thought the Nissan Leaf is rather a small car. this is going to take at 7 kW some 13 hours to recharge. Now if the tariff was marketed as simple off peak charging then you get what is offered...

I have found out why my bills did not tally, seems low rate until 5 am not 8 am, it is an EV rate, did not realise EV's could re-charge in 5 hours. Thought EV batteries were larger than 35 kWh seems I was wrong.

Thank you, I have seen so many people telling me to get Octopus, saying how much better to British Gas, it seems they are all a much of a muchness, at least I have a IHD, and it does show import/export in kWh although not so good with £ display, same with app, very much behind with readings, at...

I know my light switches can be worked with a push button and are battery powered, how ever it would stay on or off, not momentary, I am sure as @stem says there are Sonoff, or other relays which will work, this says so seems likely will work. link to advert is here but I have never used one...

@JohnD idea is good, my dad had this fitted at the door of his kitchen fed with steel wire armoured cable from main consumer unit to supply his new kitchen so only kitchen was rewired. Some times one has to think out of the box.

The ring final can have spurs (unfused and fused) and to find out which needs some testing, in the main looking is not good enough, as some one in the past may have not followed the rules, so we have to test. The regulations say we don't need to upgrade, but any new install must comply, and...

Yes possible, but as to if worth while is some thing else, I have looked at the idea of fitting a thermostat on my domestic hot water storage tank, and cost was silly, odd but a few years back and there were relays as used one in my dads house, so I found another way around the problem. Quick...

It is reaching a crisis here with bikes, e-bikes, mobility scooters, and pedestrians all competing with wider and wider cars, many parked taking up pavement space so not 28" needed for mobility scooters which are then forced onto the roads, plus inconsiderate parking next to drop pavements, or...

@jurassic sparkk is correct, in the main ring finals are 30 or 32 amp, you can get a 32 amp radial, but in the main they are less, in 1966 the rules changed on earths to lights, at about the same time we went from rubber to plastic insulation on wires, so if no earth on some lights you need an...

There was when seat belts came out a problem with some cars, the Reliant had the seats bolted to the fibre glass shell, and the seat belts to take the load specified were connected to the chassis, so in an accident the seat belt could cut one in half, as body and seats when forward by seat belt...

On the Falklands all chest freezers and power 9 - 11 am and 6 - 10 pm only, and no problem, so yes non auto defrost no problem with a power cut for around 12 hours, and even with auto defrost items below where the air is blown out by the fan, are OK it is only stuff at the very top where the...

When a fuse is pulled, if there is current flowing, one can get ionisation of the atmosphere. So isolator should be turned off first, and one should wear PPE in the main this means no nylon clothes, and wear glasses, gloves etc. In theroy with a smart meter the DNO will know, and should send...

I was rather surprised at how short the time can be, I was in the kitchen when I heard a freezer fail, lucky I had a spare in the garage used for brewing beer, so turned this on and waited ½ hour to allow it to cool, the contents then swapped between the two, the upper 6 inches to foot had...