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Hi, Hope everyone is having / had a nice christmas! Im going to be adding a cooker hood to my kitchen afterthe new year but the kitchen is already fully fitted and tiled. Is it acceptable to run a feed from the loft from either the ring final to a single socket or from the lighting circuit to...

Hi, Im having a friend rewire my house for me, he is a fully qualified electrician with his test and inspection certificate but he is not part p registered. Ive read this on a website (http://www.electricalsafetyfirst.org.uk/guides-and-advice/building-regulations/england/) does this mean in...

but its perfecly normal/safe/complient to have a switch like this (even if its outdoors)?

in my industrial unit I have a 2 gang MK outdoor switch powering two sets of lights... the two sets of lights are fed from two different breakers and such are on two different phases.... is this safe? there will be 400v at the switch!!

I might for the hell of it try another C6 I have and see what happens

well I tested with a clamp meter today and was getting about 4.2a startup then 3 or so amps running but still every so often it would trip the C6 MCB. I ended up swapping it out with a C10 MCB and have had no problems since. .... strange. .

I think they are 200w (same as the induction lamp)

I've got 5x low bay induction light fittings on my workshop roof (200w each) that I replaced the old 400w SON ones with... All 5 are wired in to a C6 MCB but every so often when turning them on the breaker trips??? Surely 5x 200w fittings won't make a C6 breaker trip? It's a Eaton Memshieldo...

Thank you to everyone for your replies... there was too much wrong with the old one and it was many years old. I bought a Cropton one yesterday from the local wholesaler and it was pretty much a straight swap. Thanks again.

I have a 3 phase planer in my workshop and recently the star delta starter went faulty so I bought a pre made open frame type like the picture below ready to fit back in to the enclosure.. The problem is this one does not have a start, stop or emergency stop button and so will now need to be on...

We are having to re-label some circuits at work as they have come off and dont know what to put for the three phase ones.... For single phase they go like: DB-A/1L1 How would you do the three phase ones?

A friend has just had 80 solar panels installed on his company roof to produce up to 20kw power that he plans to sell back to the grid... I'm confused though because even though it does say it can produce that much it only outputs a Max of 30.3amp from the invertor and has a 32a 3 pole breaker...

Hi, I know that a new rule has come in regarding the need for none combustible consumer units and just wanted to know if its a requirement to have an existing one changed. I'll be having some testing done next week and wanted to know if it will be flagged as needing to be changed. Thanks

Thanks for your reply. That's makes sense now. Bit if the cable was say 4.0mm protected by a 32amp MCB feeding machine that draws 32 or so amp then is there much point having say a 32 amp switch fuse over a standard isolator?

I see a lot of switch Fuse's in factories etc where a SWA cable will come from the DB to feed a machine but before it hits the machine there will be a switch fuse before it... Why do this when there is a breaker protecting it? Why not just use an isolator as required.. Only asking as I've...