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Edit: In reply to John, Personally, I'd just push it as far as it would go, and after making sure that a bit more of a shoove won't get it moving, and that the cut end is not digging into the side, I'd put a band of tape on it where it the remaining cable emerged from the duct, then pull it out...

The transformer is located at the top, and it will run warm, how hot are we talking? There could be a failed component on the secondary side thats drawing significantly more current than it should, but I'd expect it'd quite likely not be working right if the secondary was shorted. It could be...

I don't care what anyone else says, thats blatent profiteering when when folk have no other option.

If the tube is at end of life but starter is good, the starter will repeatdly try and start it and it will flash in a very annoying way, this will put a lot of extra wear on the starter which will soon cause it to fail too. If the starter is bad, it will keep the filaments at the end of the...

There are sizes where it is not always solid core though, for instance even though 3c 6mm is often solid core, its also available as stranded in that size. Eland datasheet: https://www.elandcables.com/handlers/downloadpdf.ashx?url=%2Fmedia%2F38379%2Fnyy-j-pvc-0-6-1kv-power-cable.pdf may be...

Wouldn't that increase the risk to at least double rather than reducing it?.... pretty serious commitment too.....

Looking at that, something in the back of my mind is saying Clipsal.....

You can still get them https://www.edwardes.co.uk/products/eaton-mem-3schf-spare-32a-exel-plastic-fuse-carrier-with-hrc-fuse . However one needs to bear in mind the likely presence of asbestos flash pads behind the rewire-able carriers and ensure that they are dealt with in a suitable manner

We have a strange hybrid of imperial and metric systems.... Pipes for water are metric sized these days, but threaded BSP threads in imperial sizes are used Pipes for air conditioning and refrigertion are imperial sized if you buy a sheet of plywood its 2440x1220 as thats 8x4 in old money...

I can remember when I was just qualified, I was swapping over some pieces of fixed equipment connected to RCD spurs throughout a building, one of them was faulty and wouldn't trip, wholesaler right around the corner, so grabbed a new one, but dis board was devoid of labeling and as the RCD...

I still haven't worked out whether he was a genuine idiot that happened to come across this place, or whether it was someone on the wind-up!

Even if both switch drops have earth continuity back to the main earth terminal then its still normal/good practice to connect them together at the switch, because A) There is simply no good reason not to B) Sometimes the connection at the switch is the only way continuity to a section of...

I don't understand why they have become so prevelent over the last few years... surely there can't be that many installations with pre 14th edition unearthed lighting circuits to justify them, of course there are some, but there were a lot more in the years before these things existed. I Wonder...

It'll probably be labeled up on the manufacturer's sticker as a "Constant Voltage (CV) LED driver", Bernard, and while we know thats just a regulated power supply and not a an LED driver in its true sense which usually gets described as "Constant Current (CC)", that seems to how they are...

Thats more or less right, but the loading on the supply side will be slightly more, the power supply will not be 100% efficient so will pull in slightly more than 80w, with some of it lost as heat. However, if your mains voltage is higher than 230v the current may be a little less than...

So the other two switches have their desired functionality with everything open at this point, only four conductors in use, one shows as being live and it reads 240v to each of the three others as if there is some sort of path back to neutral through a load.... Well I'm guessing then that its...

Yes, personnaly I'd probably use a 32mm earthing nut on the inside, But nothing to stop you taking a banjo out the pack of a 32mm gland and using that and a 32mm locknut, or even just making sure you scrape the paint off inside the enclosure where the locknut tightens down on it. Sometimes you...

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And what should should we call the thing that burns gas to heat the water for your radiators? Because it certainly doesn't boil the water - it would explode if it it did.... What about the area that contains the instrumentation for your car's engine?, because it certainly doesn't exist to...

No one would think thats the correct way to make them off, surely? More likely its been tightened down and then classed as done, where as I'd have tightened it down, flexed the cable a bit to cause the strands to settle, re-checked tightness, visually inspected it it, then given it another check...