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    To be earth or not-that is the question

    Mrs smith says she wants new spots fitted, they are double insulated, on inspecting her loop there is no earth. However all existing lights are 6" pendants (no earth needed) and the switched are mounted in plasterboard with plastic fascias (no earth needed). There is no requirement for earth...
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    The old garage q's and SWA

    Right here goes just completed a new reqire for customer. But now they want the shed included in their budget it used to be a 3/4 mm 3 core on a plug, plugged in the kitchen no RCD. I have a TN-S with a split load 32RCD, 2 q's Having read the reg I thought only pvc cables had to clear 3m in...
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    House Rewire

    tn-s is earch supplied with your suppliers neutral and TN-CS is supplied by your supplier but through a seperate cable, there is also TT which is no earth you need an earth rod. The sparky should be able to tell you from one look at your suppliers fuse area, you ca tell from the area where your...
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    Multicored armoured p.v.c. insulated cable

    some of the brian scadden books have the said drawing in if this helps
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    Kitchen Downlighters

    When you do find this transformer which you should start by looking where you feed originates from, one way is to trace your switch wire from the socket/switch if possible, you will eventually discover the transformer. When you do find it look on the transformer for the rating some start from...
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