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Indeed - the measurements give a guide to the "parish" that might might be your first guessthen the other considerations come in to play, then one or two more probably - such as whats in the alcoves, are there shelves and if so are the glass or solid and like wood and is possible to have wall...

The answer is, what do you consider would look best and in practice illuminate best and be the easiest (or not too difficult ) to be best , you might well get three conflictions and you might have to consider the best over all compromise . The final choice is what suits you unless you favour...

May I just add to that? The short stub of wire on the left hand side to be bent over to help it not fall looser in a downwards direction - I know it will need to have slackend a bit in order to fall dowards in the first place and 10.0 or 16.0 earthwire would not fall out but smaller sizes might...

Yes, with pure DC it does not really (usually) matter if only the negative or only the positive is switched and the opposite pole (+ve or -ve) is always directly connected. In fact if you deem that electricity flows because electrons are deemed to flow then it actually flows from negative to...

ADE, I remember when they first became known to Alarm Installers and I was a little sceptic I must admit. The reason for that is (rightly or wrongly) I viewed them as more of a yesterdays technolgy sort of idea with more use of transitors in their circuits - simple but tried and tested. Don`t...

May I just comment on siting reg 1341.1.1? In many ways perhaps the most powerfull reg in the book or one of them and often overlooked in some respects. However this often get thought of by the statement "Not as the manufacturer intended!" In other words if we use something as it was intended...

"Yet again, I believe that all this speculative discussion is very premature." Yes, I reckon that Mr Milliband came out with a simple one size comment without any caveats. Not a good thing to do except perhaps score imaginary points. We need some rules/regulations then decide how many...

Providing that all the proper rules are applied you could run L E N from the fused spur to the switches then one N & one E and two Switched Line conductors (say in SWA cable) therefore at the end you have a choice of loads for intance a light on Line 1 and a pump on Line 2 and the N (& the E) to...

As one of my customers put it (He was a retired Electrician, I did not know him until he became a customer) I rewired his home. He had some disabilities made worse or caused by his age. "Ebee, old age can be a terrile thing but it`s a lot better than the alternative!" PS - He didn`t call me...

yup i have done that too.

yep that ticks my box in what i would independantly advise folks to do, its a good starter for 10 . I`ve never been keen on doing them myself anyway, but if asked i would point a client in pretty much the same as the above, or lightly suggest (if pressed) the one or two I might actually trust to...

Agreed, Betamax are superior so if only one becomes defacto I hope it`s not VHS, it will never catch on, mark my words!

Hoy. I’ve only just read the op. Is there some time limit on responding to threads?

Most of our services whether gov or retail etc etc offer only this disgusting level of service these days. I blame it a lot of our fault for following the customs and practices of the most uncivilised country on earth. And I’m not referring to the present president known as Von Clownstick or the...

I think that probably the slight change to the coding system was an attempt to clear things up that was a very widely used interpretation that often existed (or was deliberately used by some to save money and not in the best intrests of safety ) . "We fix the code ones very quickly and the fix...

Even so, old habits etc etc and best being on the safe side unneededly than risk forgeting then dash! Belts/braces or/both kind of habit.

No you not boring me, it is interesting and additionally it is interesting that folk have different views and differing terms for the same thing and vice versa too.

Bang on statement and not only in Electrical disciplines. Jobsworth Syndrome at its best :giggle: , what gets me is that some of these people undertaking inspections often seem to completely miss some pretty obvious "transgressions". LOL. too

Ditto

I know that feeling, the next thought is "oh I`ve just wished it upon somebody else" I`ve done that myself a couple of times.