Recent content by davelx

Nothing to stop you using a 3rd party VOIP provider - it doesn't care that you're accessing the internet over a mobile network. A club I belong to has 3 5G broadband internet access (having be totally let down by Openreach) and is running a Phonely VOIP service over it perfectly well.

But the brick's much higher thermal capacity would more than offset that, I would think. There are so many variables that the only way to know for sure would be to experiment with the specific conditions of your case.

If there's a "lot more of it" then it will absorb a lot more heat for a given temperature rise. It's a bigger heat sink! Also the thermal conductivity of normal bricks at about 0.6W/m/K is a lot better than plasterboard at about 0.038W/m/K and their specific heat capacity is also a lot higher so...

You can use Wrap around heat shrink to repair that.

Sticks like S*** or other solvent free grab adhesive works fine. Bolt the back boxes together back to back with a knockout between them for the cable if needed. Use long faceplate screws and some steel or wood straps each side to hold the.boxes in position whilst the adhesive sets. Fill all...

when it was bought by BT

You cannot terminate fibre in a master socket!!! They may have removed the old incoming wiring and used the hole to bring the fibre in, but the master socket itself plays no part in the FTTP connection. If that is what they have done then you just have to find the old internal phone wiring and...

The old master socket is redundant and has no role in the FTTP connection. You should have an openreach ONT. The old master socket should be able to be removed and replaced with a normal phone socket with only the internal wires to pins 2 and 5. Any incoming wires from the old BT line can be...

Then it does have a standard telephone outlet electrically, the short lead just converts from RJ11 to standard BT style phone socket. That can be then connected to the existing home extension wiring - pins 2 and 5 are all you need. The is a chance that all the existing phones may present too...

Does the new router have a normal phone socket, or do they have a dect base station (typically yealink) that plugs into an ethernet port on their new router? If the former then it is quite likely that their existing extension wiring and phones can be used. If the latter then not possible unless...

The first method was standard for wiring the 2-way switching for stair/landing lights in older housing stock (1930's housing boom) when there was only one lighting circuit, no RCDs and the lighting wiring was singles in split conduit with no earth. The live feed for the landing light was taken...

It'll be happy at 52A whilst someone takes a quick shower. And saunas cycle on thermostat once up to temperature anyway.

Have you looked at the trip curves for 40A B curve devices?

Item on BBC 1 The One Show right now.

Easily. Also that does not comply with the regs - there are single insulated conductors that are not within an enclosure, the SWA cable has not been correctly terminated, the exposed steel screen could potentially present a hazard - we don't know how it's connected at the other end. I'd be...