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    Wiring in air compressor

    40A, 80A and 100A? I've never seen or heard of these. BS EN 60309 certainly makes no reference to 40A or 80A variants. North American versions are sometimes rated differently, but are functionally identical. They use 20A, 30A, 60A and 100A for what we call 16A, 32A, 63A and 125A.
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    Power for an Island Cooker Hood?

    Taste? Fashion? Styling? You might not agree, but everyone's opinion is different. Some people would be happy with wiring in trunking if it makes the job cheaper, others wouldn't even contemplate the idea. At the end of the day, she knew the look / quality of finish she wanted, and was...
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    5 amp socket on a 6 amp circuit

    Blimey, that picture brings back some memories - one of the schools I went to had 36 channels of Furse dimmers just like that hardwired to pairs of 5a sockets (mirrored SL / SR about the centreline). Are those the ones which have the control input on something that looks like a 9 pin D type...
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    Why ?

    Or maybe cut one shorter than he should have, ending up having to use them in a different way to planned? Maybe he's just trying to keep people on their toes? :P It might not be the normal way of doing it, but it's not like brown is really any more of a phase colour than black or grey as far...
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    Thick Wall - Drilling

    Hello all, Your advice please: I need to create a number of holes for cables through some pretty substantial bits of building as follows: 1) ~1m horizontally through solid stone 2) ~1m horizontally through brick (possible loose infill) 3) ~1m vertically though a brick arch Each...
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