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Thanks for the sensible replies ericmark. From April of this year the Government introduced the Feed-In-Tariff (FIT) for renewable energy generators. For a retrofit solar PV installation, the owner of the FIT is paid 41.3p for every kilowatt hour of electricity generated regardless of whether it...

Thanks for the input guys, very useful and informative. A simple' yes that's right because...' or 'no you're wrong because...' would have helped but I suspect you dont know the answer yourselves. You both probably think you're really clever but your rudimentary grasp of grammar and spelling tell...

I was wondering when the first self-righteous smug reply would come. Congratulations 1john, the award goes to you. If you've nothing constructive to add, dont bother.

Here is a pic of a typical pv system. http://www.windandsun.co.uk/images/solar/solar_roofs/solar_roofdiagram2.jpg As you can see the pv system feeds back into the consumer unit via its own MCB. As it is on the load side, all of the other electrical equipment supplied by the same consumer unit...

Hi, I recently took the City & Guilds PV course. I haven't done an install yet but i've been to take a look at some possible jobs. At one of the jobs i noticed there was no spare way in the main consumer unit. There was however a smaller 2 way consumer unit spurred off the supply tails via a...

unforunately its just over 2 years old so out of guarantee

Hi everybody I have a Mira Zest shower which seems to have a temperature regulation problem. It either runs stone cold or boiling hot with no in-between. Does anybody have any clues as to what the problem could be? Thanks.

Thanks guys, a couple of great common sense solutions to save my over-tired brain from having to work-out. I need a holiday.

Hi. I have an open circuit on the neutral conductor when testing ring continuity. I've taken off all the socket fronts i could find but didn't locate the problem. I know i've got to find it but in the meantime what's the worst case scenario if this situation is left as is until i can find the...

hi, I'm testng a ring main and on the Zs 'no trip test' using a Megger the RCD keeps tripping. Anybody have any ideas why this could be? R1, Rn and R2 ring continuity all fine and polarity at all all sockets good. Ring is about 85m long. Thanks

Hi, I'm getting a driveway laid on a piece of my lawn to park my van on. The builder has taken away the top soil and levelled it out and says it's now waiting for the concrete of which there will be 4 inches. I asked about a layer of hardcore but he insisted it was not required. Am i being...

my meters

I have 1 meter and it has a high reading and a low reading and a separate time switch. I say that ALL electric used between midnight and 7am goes on the low reading regardless of the circuit thats used it. My colleague argues that only the electric used by the night storage heaters and immersion...

I believe that as long as the JB's are placed such that they can be easily inspected, then there is nothing to stop you from extending the ring in such a way.

Hi, to settle an argument please... In an economy 7 installation, even though there may be 2 CU's (1 for heaters, immersion etc, 1 for normal everyday circuits) all electrickery used in the off peak time will be at the off peak rate regardless of which circuit is drawing a load. For example if...