Recent content by gbrown100

Thanks all, got them back in and they have said they will replace all of it again. That was 10 days ago, not heard from them since :)

Here's just a couple of the pics of my "re-glazed" conservatory. They have not sealed the glazing plastic at all and in some cases not re-instated the white edging, glazing bars not clipped down, roofing sheets and inch shorter than the ones next to them, all major glazing bars end caps missing...

OK, so the specs all said A but yet colour denotes AC. OK, so this doesnt make much of a difference in this instance does it?

The button is yellow. Just confirmed, I unplugged the 1600 and 1000 ups and nothing is tripping. Now actually I could just run all of that off the 6000 va anyway and remove the other two. The issue with the RCBO's is that the two I just isolated are also on the same circuit heading back to the...

It say 80A 30ma WRS80/2 which reading up is a type A. Also, I should mention that I have another 3 UPS's ranging from a 1600, 1000 and 750va dotted around (all APC) and my understanding is that UPS's can cause a certain amount of earth leakage. I've also read that the UPS removes rcd...

Hi everyone. Some background first, I have a CU in the house from Wylex that's maybe 15 years old. It's been added to over the years but has always been stable with one exception. We've been having a lot of power issues lately because of some faults in the street, anyone I have spoken to have...

Thanks all, so these printers will be downstream of a 6kva ups, i can control them all the time it is providing power and when it isn't, well.. I won't need to control them as they'll be off :) My router is also ups protected as is the WiFi and these smart controllers do not need cloud to...

Thanks @jj4091 . The concern is that even the 13 amp ones, the terminals don't seem man enough to cope with anything over 13 amps, if wired as part of a 20 amp radial could the terminals get too hot if they're being used to connect between the cable segments for the circuit and its running close...

I have a bunch of smart controllers from Shelly designed to sit in the back of a socket backbox. Some have a rating of 8 amp, some 13. I wanted to use them to switch and monitor consumption of a bunch of 3D printers, one per socket. I have a 6KVA UPS being installed using a 16 amp radial input...

Hi everyone. I've got a 1960's semi with the world's loudest creaking staircase. I have tried many things over the years but ultimately it comes down to the fact that most of the wood is shot. It's got cracks through it where previous occupants have smashed various nails and huge wood screws...

Do you know what? I'm an idiot! There is zero point fixing it to the hot water feed as even if it does stop heating once the incoming hot feed is the right temperature I still will have unnecessarily heated all the water back up the pipe to the boiler. Far simpler to just Tee the cold feed and...

Hi all, We have a Worcester Combi in the loft. On the ground floor we have the kitchen. Whenever I run the hot tap it can take a good 30 seconds to get the water really hot in the sink, we can be wasting half a bowl of water or more every time. I'm not up for installing a separate tap and am...

Thanks @Astra99 , yeah I have a ratchet crimp tool, the Halfords pinch one from the 80's won't cut it! I have heat shrink tube, I just thought the red ones were quite flimsy that's all, the ones on the old cable seemed more substantial. Good point on the solder, I'll make sure I do that...

Hi everyone. I have an old 1980's computer. The power lead appears to be a moulded .75mm flex that feeds into the power supply and is connected on L and N using a female spade connector, the earth is a ring. The computer is fused at the plug with a 3amp fuse. It's damaged and I want to replace...

Hi everyone, thanks for the input just enjoyed catching up! Well, the neighbour has now backed out lol. But to address where we got to: Fibre link using pre terminated armoured fibre from comms express. Someone said "use a switch not router to avoid double nat". A router routes... Nat is a...