Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

I had never heard of it too!

I do it occasionally, find something interesting to study, go into it in detail, could be historical, mechanical, or etc. - trouble is, only a little of it sticks :-)

Well, for decades I have needed some sort of lights up, or it was a matter of feeling my way around outdoors, with a torch. I put the usual TH lights up, with sensors. They leaked, or when the time came to replace the TH lamp, the would be seized, or fall apart. So I gave up on them. I then...

Nowt worth worrying about!

Three, extremely loud ones - external, one in the control panel, then yet a third which has to plug into the control panel. The latter seems unnecessary, as the control panel would wake the dead.

Just keep in mind - that the emptier the vessel, the more noise it makes!

I wonder if The Guardian is aware of the copyright infringements?

If it is only the downstairs lighting circuit tripping, then it is completely pointless unplugging things - things which you plug in, are not on that lighting circuit. Rather you should be doing what I suggested earlier - Turn a light on, on that downstairs lighting circuit, and leave it on, as...

Absolutely, they care nothing for the law.

I'm struggling, with this kit, to understand, the need for no less than three noise-makers... All, very loud - there is the outdoor bell box, the control panel itself, then a siren on the end of a 2.5m cable, which has to be plugged into the control panel. I'm thinking, to not bother installing...

Getting my head around this fancy new burglar alarm system I've bought, testing it, and planning how I intend setting it all up. I was a little concerned that the outdoor box, solar powered, might not be 'up to' the UK weather, but it manages to charge with even slightest glimmer of light, and...

Sorry, my typo - should be SES!

Testing, if you are unable to confirm just what causes it to trip, might involve disconnecting sections of the wiring, at the ceiling roses, to locate the section. Doing that, might identify a fault, or at least a fault localised to one area/one section of cable, if it has been nicked by a...

The lighting circuit, appears to be on an RCBO. OK, but none of that work will be necessary, to at least localise the actual fault and may not even find the fault. Does the trip happen, when you happen to have been up and about upstairs by chance? Leave a low power light on, so you can at...

You need to determine which it is. RCD, or RCBO will have a button, maybe yellow or blue, marked 'test' or 'T'. An MCB will not.