Recent content by trey

I bought one of these and they are useless. Then I searched the net and found this video, which confirms the fact- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c55cxwNH01E I sold mine on a car boot for £40 :wink:

I employed a homeserve decorator once, he made a right mess!

Sorry for being thick, but what is a PM?

Nice transformation. I love the new sink :wink:

My wooden gutter is leaking badly, Do I need to replace it or can I repair it possibly?

Fixed the heating in my room, now I can afford to eat this monnth. Been a hard month, what with the credit crunch. Just started a undergrad at the LSE. Not a good month for starting a law degree. Only did it cause my mom told me too. She says "do a law degree, you will never have any...

My 12kW (max) electric boiler pulls 45A when configured as "10kW", so in 12kW mode I would expect 54A. Unlike the Amptec my boiler scales the power, so I've never seen it pull 45A for more than 30 mins and in this time the 16mm2 cable never gets warm.

Sound like your double switch was 1 one-way and 1 two-way. If you undo the other light switch and see what the setup in the back of that is,it might shed some light on the way it is all wired. Have you got a test meter, or a way of checking continuity. It could be that one red is the...

I have something similar. A 45A electric flow boiler and a 37A electric shower. I solved the problem using a contactor that cuts out the boiler like a thermostat would. In your clients case you could do something similar, but you'll have to find a contactor that can take the current for 9kW...

Or use the two hinges. Put one wire to top hinge, other to bottom. Bridge the door using the hinges to carry the current.

Yes you did used to be able to do clever things with the joystick ports. But I'm after something a bit simpler than a few hours homebrew. Either a clamp designed to record current history in hourly chunks for 12 hours or somesuch. EDIT: I suppose it wasn't clear. I'm recording mains usage of...

Anyone recommend a cheap data logger. I need to record usage vs time for hours I'm not in or awake. Rather than dragging down some homebrew data logger and patching it into a clamp meter, I'm after some simple solution. My plan B is a webcam watching the meter and recording every hour.

So does that mean about 1 in every 6 things you do will be wrong? And you lot are allowed to charge members of the public!!

How much was it (the 10mm cable). I just bought 14m of 10mm and 12 of 16mm for £60. Copper seems to be coming down a bit.

I had 6mm on a 10m run to a 9.5kw shower. It also had a join (at a 30A junction box) and ran in insulated stud wall for 2m. It never caught fire, but you could feel the cable get warm. It obviously never worried the previous owner, but after first RCD protecting it I eventually had the whole...