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Hmm not sure. I got one a few years back it was one of those "when its gone its gone!" things from Aldi and I got it for one specific job at the time, thinking it might be useful another two or three times in my working life, Unfortunately I sort of started windin down to retirement not long...

Yes perhaps but you can envisage why they were termed Curren or Voltage operated due to the way they effectively (almost) could be caused via either voltage or current differences although the coil actually operated via current in the coil so I reckon it is fair if not strictly true otherwise...

Blimey - Either a con man or totally thick!

Just to add, you still need to avoid splashes of water getting into the fan heater itself but that is almost always taken care of by the design of the fan heater itself and the vanity unit. In other words if you were just adding a bog standard fan heater itself you`d have to ensure you mount it...

With a slightly better endoscope/boroscope type thingy (you can get them quite cheap if it`s worthwhile) you might be able to better determine exactly what is what). Those of us who are old enough did not have such things, not even something resembling a dental mirror until quite later on just...

I suppose that those of you with long fingernails would not find it impossible to remove push in types in all cases. so a C3 might be justified. My preference would be a spare MCB/RCBO as a usual option

Well finding the joint would be the first priority, then doing L to L then N to N then E to E (example you might find that SWA is E to E on Both so continuiy righ thru or you might not - are both the third conductor and the armour connected together anywhere. Therefore disconnect both ends...

If the ceiling is plasterboard and space allows then if it feaseable to cut in for a dry lining box (perhaps a circular one and put the wagos in before popping the luminaire back in place)? Keeps it in a back box that is only exposed once the light fitting is removed

Agreed John, however there are those (including some very technical engineers who insisted it should have a test before deliberately freeing the switch whether by test button or manually) who insist it should be failed and replaced. Myself I prefer to test then test again and see what shows - I...

I`ll go along with that, but I would prefer everyone to press test every 3 months or so, but they never do! In my mind the "Stiction" is the most important as failures are usually failure to trp within parameters rather than failure to trip at all (although sometimes they do fail completely) and...

Yes - the "ordinary person" those without RCD testers etc have no way of knowing if an RCD is working to any extent. A simple test button performs a simple function, it tests that the RCD will trip (or not trip) under some condition. It will not tell us if it trips within the correct time or at...

Yes John, in essence, that`s pretty much what I was intending to say but you have put it far more eloquently than I.

It would be nice to know how you acheived it and how advice on here might have helped

OK, as you said you got a few ideas now, and more importatly what ideas you might need to consider as 1/ what you actually want now an 2/ what you might actually want in future, the relavant costs ans the will you total plan be reduced or will you indeed think of more but before all of that you...

So are we thinking that "otherwise normal in electronics" idea that a resistor would be designed to be capapable of taking any conceivable current in "normal" usage and also any heating of an intensity able to damage nearby electronics was avoided by heatsinks or spacing dimensions, could be...

In our Wiring Regs, in our everyday lives too, a lot of questions are not always yes everytime or no everytime ut more of a sometimes it depends sort of answer, 50 shades of greyRule/regulationscan notcover everything every time in every single instance. And of course you ask a few different...

I know that scenario very well Eric. Tidy up is obsesive in comparison for ease of use. Everything is moved from its handy place and moved to an obscure place. Even things that have been in certain places for years and we all know where they "always are" get moved to another place and when I get...

Most folk do not have a "sink" in a bathroom, some might have a basin (a.k.a a Lavatory Hand Basin) in though. I suppose a Bath or a Shower or both might be enough to qualify it actually being called a Bathroom though if we not too strict on the semantics.

Probably best to designate it to a Greek leter or three then we can all know what it is and the differences in definitions, hopefully theres still a Greek letter or two left for us to use in this situation. Our Tutor on my first C&G Wiring Regs course course did comment that as Electricians we...

LOL yes me too :whistle: