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http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=0&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=1016 Im just working on a similar product myself, the "Super Duper Fuse". it will make white goods use cheaper to run by using less electricity. Shortly available from my website for £49.99 each - a snip. (pre-orders...

No need to shout!

This is an electrics forum of which I am a grateful member: As such - and as I have just demonstrated - the word "sparky" definitely has more than one connotation. I have simply drawn attention to its origin. The word "electrician" means "electrician" and nothing else. if nothing further...

Now that I look again at the photo, the connection to the metal backplate does appear to be an earth.... I no longer have the lumi to hand, but my initial glance seemed to show one of the Bayonet terminals connected directly to the backplate also. That does seem unlikely. thanks all for help...

after a further incredulous look back at a genuine & honest technical enquiry once again derailed by the disaffected, it strikes me that certain of us might do well to remember the amazing gift of bandwidth that we daily abuse at our fingertips. BNC - sorry, mea culpa. I meant Bayonet lamp...

Sorry B-A-S. Misleading username? - no, I cannot let that slip past! origin of the trade, or rank nickname "Sparky" or "Sparks" was (usually seagoing) radio (W/T) operator. Actual (rf) sparks were an inherent, necessary and occasionally spectacular part of the first generation (no pun...

B-A-S, the ring of wire to which I have drawn attention is, I believe, double insulated: that is, the conductor is insulated in the normal manner of wire by a basic PVC(?) plastic jacket. this has then been fed through a supplementary woven textile heatproof(?) tube. Basic+supplementary...

what is the insulated coil of wire in this luminaire? I feel it must be some design of ballast.... it appears to be running very hot, although it looks as if it was designed to be running hot. however, not so hot that it melted the starter cartridge, which it has. I would be eternally...

please explain an "accelerator resistor"?

Can anyone cast any light on what this little silver widget is? pretty sure the things that look like resistors are.... resistors. but the thing in between the resistors....? This was removed from a malfunctioning electric storage heater. it was installed in close physical contact...

Good point.... Butane is blue, right? propane orange? It's orange bottles, standing outside behind the house.

yes, I think I do! I do intend to take this up with the vendors of the house, and quite possibly with the surveyor himself. But - what are the limits of this "home report"? for instance, is the surveyor required to open the lid of the fusebox? as I say, I have previous with this surveyor...

there is no mains gas in the county (that narrows it down!!). this is one of the old 1980's "Total Heating with Total (lack of) Control" installations, with a radio teleswitch that controls one of the CU's which goes to the storage heaters. Yes, that CU is definitely in service. I'm not...

Thanks very much BernardGreen for the forensic analysis. A few years ago, I comissioned this same "surveyor" to do one of these reports on a private-sale house which I now live in. (so I got him in from the other side of a purchase) the result of that was that I lost all confidence in any of...

JohW2 - That is an interesting possibility which may have some validity.... of course I wasnt actually there at the wholesaler's so I don't know. regarding SWA not being strictly necesary when clipped to walls... I installed a run of it last year in exactly this manner when in my view it was...

the cable goes from the main CU which is at the service/cutout position in the middle of the house, into the concrete raft and out under a concrete path to a detached garage where it terminates in a standard "garage" CU. you can just about see the garage swa in this shot, with the white cable...

I recently viewed a house which is on the open market, with a view to purchase. This is one of the fuseboxes in the house: I had read the statutory Home Report before viewing the house. Here are all the parts of the Home Report that make reference to "Electric" Would it be...