Recent content by ebee

Certainly some folk do that, you can trick some of the people some of the time and that amounts to loadsa money so the ad industry has loadsa money. If you look back at some things sold as the best 20,30,40 or more years ago and that every so often the made a new improved one then that must...

A nice "Fudge" of notation of nominal declared voltage!

Eric, just to clarify, with the lead I mentioned the E from the circuit being utilised fro the installtion itself is not connected to anything in the lead at all. A "Fake Earth" is employed from the household N in the socket. The RCD under test sees an N and an L and another N at its earth...

All valid points. When the Tungsten Halogen tubes were the normal on some I would try and make the ON time 3mins minimum to assist longevity of the lamps, similarly the old bog standard filament lamps did not enjoy the stress. much either, in fact fluorescents did not appreciate lots of...

Named after someone named Michael but not sure what his last name was.

Originally some were British made apparently and had a decent arm length and good adjustment. Then came along combined/closely coupled cheap units and the prices raced down. Personally if using PIR switching I prefer seperate sensor an lighting - Why? because you usually need the light to light...

I`ve just edited post number #14 - hopefully I`ve finally cleared it up!

The N at the socket is derived from N at the plugtop. The E at the socket is derived from the N at the plugtop. The L at the socket is derived from the L at the plugtop. Therefore any fault at the socket is seen as a N L current at the extension plugtop only and will not trip the circuit RCD ...

Well would a one in one out socket/plug need a fuse - some of those two way splitter type death cubes have no fuse. The esy way to test it on an RCD socket is to get a plug and wire N on plug to both N & E on a test extenion type socket outlet and the L plug to L socket - sometimes known as...

Depending upon age it might be better than a lot of modern stuff.

The reason I mentioned a formula and perhaps an app or something is a slight mod on one of my modes of thinking after many years of being self employed. In brief, one of my main inclinations would be - will it save me work/money/both and to what extent? Simply put as a quick rule of thumb the...

not really true then.sometimes does but sometimes doesn`,?

yes indeed Eric so another facet of the change of the numerics in the equation too so once the rules have reasonably settled some way then the initial cost of purchase and the costs of the tarrifs are two main items in actual quantity that may vary in the equation. writing a short computer...

Hiya Eric = no sign of a test button? What I might have been tempted to have tried is the old tried and tested "Bang Bang 240 Test" as we used to call it . a 8200 ohm resistor of highest wattage to hand wired across L & E pins of a spare plugtop including a 1A fuse as a Go/No Go test...

So it`s not looking portable and cheap but more like portable and expensive for a kick off. Probably perceivable that some might still save though but it`s up to the individual to calculate before buying, Some might still rush in without calculating though and look at the adverts thru rose...