Recent content by tim01

Staggering story Qedelec. Makes we wonder whats been done to my own home in the past. I'm just a bit bugged by regs everywhere, specially having been told just yesterday that I couldn't climb three steps up a ladder to look closer at something until the site foremen returned to grant me...

Hi Qedelec I don't deny that safety is of course important. utmost important and I support anything that genuinely improves safety for us all but it is a worthwhile point that keeping some basic electrics within the public domain is a GOOD THING and is important for public safety. Banning...

Thanks all, and I will go and get the White! Qedelec: Good point. JohnD: I take your point. In this case a separate pvc housing is outside the metal casing and away from any real heat but I can see the sense in replacing like-for-like for good measure and avoiding the unforeseen.

It would appear then, I can connect an appliance by wiring a plug and inserting my fuse, but I cannot wire a simple fused spur (much the same thing) without... "measuring Continuity, R1 & R2, Insulation Resistance between conductors, Earth loop impedance (and knowing the maximum Zs for the...

Hi. I want to replace a flex feeding a quartz heater lamp on my patio wall. The lamp is 1.3kw which, using your chart above, I would consider a 1.0mm flex more than adequate (I have some 1.0mm kicking around). The original flex fitted by the manufacturer is 1.5mm and the label states...

Hi, hope you can help. I have read much conflicting text about when you may or may not add a fused spur to power an appliance. I have read here that I can take more than one fused spur any one socket on the ring. Is that correct? What if that socket outlet is already a spur itself (just...