Recent content by tcs200

Hello all, I am having a Part P inspection of a new ring main and new lighting circuit carried out towards the end of next week. Because I now have the lucky task of finishing the decoration of the property myself, and some time on my hands before the inspection, I wanted to find out want...

Thanks for the input. I'm pretty sure that the voltage drop would be ok given the calcs in my original post, but hadn't thought about the brightness issue. I'm going to do a "dry run" with my initially intended cable lengths, and if the realtive birghtness looks silly, I'll replace the whole...

Thanks for the advice and kind words. I'll try the baffle first (as I can do it this morning), and then the compact valve if I'm not satisfied. Watch this space for a progress report. Thanks again.

Hi everyone, My new flat has an Elson combined hot and cold water storage tank, which is about 15 years old. It's big box that sits neatly in a cupboard in the bathroom, with a ballvalve fed cold water tank on one side and a indirectly heated hot water storage tank beneath small hot water...

Hello Everyone, I'm in the process of installing a SELV downlighter kit, that has a pre-wired cable to connect to 3x12V, 20W bulbs on the ELV side of the transformer. The maximum distance to the end of the chain of bulbs allowed by this cable isn't quite long enough and I would like to...