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  1. davelx

    Sockets in thin walls 7 cm

    Sticks like S*** or other solvent free grab adhesive works fine. Bolt the back boxes together back to back with a knockout between them for the cable if needed. Use long faceplate screws and some steel or wood straps each side to hold the.boxes in position whilst the adhesive sets. Fill all...
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    Mum Leaving Plusnet

    when it was bought by BT
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    Vodafone Phone Service

    You cannot terminate fibre in a master socket!!! They may have removed the old incoming wiring and used the hole to bring the fibre in, but the master socket itself plays no part in the FTTP connection. If that is what they have done then you just have to find the old internal phone wiring and...
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    Vodafone Phone Service

    The old master socket is redundant and has no role in the FTTP connection. You should have an openreach ONT. The old master socket should be able to be removed and replaced with a normal phone socket with only the internal wires to pins 2 and 5. Any incoming wires from the old BT line can be...
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    Vodafone Phone Service

    Then it does have a standard telephone outlet electrically, the short lead just converts from RJ11 to standard BT style phone socket. That can be then connected to the existing home extension wiring - pins 2 and 5 are all you need. The is a chance that all the existing phones may present too...
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    Vodafone Phone Service

    Does the new router have a normal phone socket, or do they have a dect base station (typically yealink) that plugs into an ethernet port on their new router? If the former then it is quite likely that their existing extension wiring and phones can be used. If the latter then not possible unless...
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    Two Way Lighting - Which way to do it?

    The first method was standard for wiring the 2-way switching for stair/landing lights in older housing stock (1930's housing boom) when there was only one lighting circuit, no RCDs and the lighting wiring was singles in split conduit with no earth. The live feed for the landing light was taken...
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    Sauna logistics

    It'll be happy at 52A whilst someone takes a quick shower. And saunas cycle on thermostat once up to temperature anyway.
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    Sauna logistics

    Have you looked at the trip curves for 40A B curve devices?
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    Plug in solar

    Item on BBC 1 The One Show right now.
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    Garden room electrics - could this have been done more neatly?

    Easily. Also that does not comply with the regs - there are single insulated conductors that are not within an enclosure, the SWA cable has not been correctly terminated, the exposed steel screen could potentially present a hazard - we don't know how it's connected at the other end. I'd be...
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    Plastic Membrane Keyboard

    A homemade streamdeck? Let me guess....Qlab, OBS or SCS? I'm looking into one of these: Streamdeck Neo 8
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    Fibre Broadband - the last 10m...

    True, but you can also go onto the Openreach website and request its removal. There is no charge for this, but the people who do it would then be paid for the job, I would think.
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    Help to identify this please

    Google says: Aritech DR series passive infrared (PIR) sensor, most likely the Aritech DR115 or DR110, which was widely manufactured and installed during the mid-to-late 1980s.
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    Virgin Media, driveway dig up.

    Huh, youngsters! 1992, 300baud dial-up acoustic coupler, demon internet was the isp, homebuilt PC, MSDOS.
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    lighting adapter to 3 pin plug

    And not a 5A fuse in sight.
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    Plug in solar

    It's a quantum circuit!! What happens when you observe it?:giggle:
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    Virgin Media, driveway dig up.

    And the main reason they do that is that VM ties them to time/cost/productivity targets that make it impossible to do anything else!
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    Phone Cable Question

    GPON is a form of WDM. It uses one lamda each way on the "last mile" with up to 1:32 splitters using 1290-1330nm upstream and 1480-1550nm downstream lamdas. Downstream traffic is broadcast to all end points and then filtered at the ONT. In the backbone traditional WDM allows higher muxing...
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    Phone Cable Question

    There are standards governing the wavelengths used, so I would think (I retired just as this technology was being rolled out into provider backbone networks) you could get certain standard combinations and you'd have to plan your architecture accordingly...
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