Recent content by sparky1505

Look gus4778 it doesn`t matter whether or not your board is or isn't big enough or whether or not in some peoples opinion whether it is safe or not. you have had someone ( competent ) look at you board and say that there is a problem with it, I personally would not do any work for you without...

You either have a better memory than me or sadder than me to have the regs to hand on a saturday night. :lol:

Not having the regs to hand i`m sure that Regulation 314.4 states that if an installation has more than one final circuit then every final circuit must be supplied from or connected to a seperate way in the fuse box.

Hi there . on your new stat your permenant live - 1 your load live - 2 your neutral - N without testing you existing wiring i cant say what colour is what, espesialy because your blue is connected to NC. Normaly it would be your red permenant live your...

Sorry but F**K ME that is the messiest fuse box i have ever seen I would definitely let the NICE contractor do what ever he thinks needs doing . I wouldn`t be worried that this guy is going to rip you off, looks like you have been already .

__________________ Think thats HIS Christmas present

Firstly well done with going with an NICE contractor for your own peace of mind on getting it right this time . Secondly Is you current fuse box a 16 ed fuse box ? if so is the NICE contractor wanting to change the fuse box to a 17 ed box to provide rcd protection to the modified circuits...

Thanks for all your posts guys . reading every thing i am confident it is the water. going to do the test next week with different water :idea: (will remember the tea bags)

thats great thanks, sounds like the problem. the water does come from a well so the water could very well be the problem.

Deep hole maybe we are in Wales. and am checking the voltage by plugging in the tester in the same double socket. definetaly a tricky one :?

Hi there i belive that on your sun vic your red is common, 1 your blue is neutral 4 your yellow is demand 3 satisfied 2 not used green/yellow to earth. hope it helps

Any thoughts? One of my customers has a new kettle but every time he plugs it in to boil it always switches off before it boilling. He has changed the kettle and the new one does the same. He changed the kettle for a diffrent make and that does the same . He has tried the kettle in a...

Hi there, if you are testing the inulation resistance live to earth, neutral to earth, live to neutral or combined live + neutral to earth and in each test getting readings >300Mohm then this is a good result. :)

If the cpc`s are indeed just snipped off in the ceiling rose, don`t just trim them back, use them and assume you have a reliable earth as they may be snipped off in all the light fitting in the circuit you will end up with a class 1 fitting which is not eatrhed . :cry:

very good link makes interesting reading thanks, but as Grid-tie inverters are designed to quickly disconnect from the grid if the utility grid goes down. And is an NEC requirement that in the event of a blackout( as Islanding can be dangerous to utility workers, who may not realize that the...