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Kendor, your comments about free enterprise are correct, but why is the British Government the only one on the planet that actually sticks to this doctrine. All other nations look after their industry and use public funds to support them by buying their products, and they do this openly...

Call me old fashioned, but I always use 6mm for cross bonding, it is what i learnt my trade using. Yes I know this has been downgraded by the changes made to BD7671, but hey, old habits die hard. You may have a point, but to be honest I cannot say i have given that much consideration, simply...

Freddie, with respect I think you are being slightly nieve. I will agree that perhaps there are other things that 500 million of any money could be spent on, however i think there is something fundermental about ascertaining whether or not life exists on Mars. I say this not for the sake of life...

The Government is partly to blame, they always state we should "Buy British", yet they have never insisted that all public service vehicle be manufactured in the UK. How different would Rovers fortunes have been if the Government had insisted that all marked Police cars and NON-CID cars be...

Fireman22, putting lighting circuits on an RCD is stupid, dangerous and insane. If people are dumb enough to mess with a supply then putting lights onan RCD will not stop this. I know you will say it makes it safer, but having no lights on a communal staircase is asking for a prosecution and...

I don't make the rules Guys, so please do not shoot the messenger. I personally think it irrelevent, but they say it is required. I believe they are interpreting Regulation 544-01-01 in order to state what they do. I can't see a flaw in thier reasoning except it flies in the face of common...

Is it really, then I suggest you take this up with the IEE and the NICEIC. We just had an inspection on some Domestic new builds we have completed, the NHBC got independent inspectors in to verify a percentage of our test results for the Guarantees. The spec for the job called for a 300mA Time...

Incorrect Information. The enclosure of the switch will still have an Earth Terminal, and this must be connected to the common earth terminal for the installation to comply with BS7671:2004

Mapj1, the comments that you call waffle should not be ignored, that is the whole point of them being there in the first place. With regards your comments about the currents etc involved, your comments are very misleading. Further, when was the last time you saw a Transformer fed 220V Halogen?

Ban-all-sheds, the lighting is rated at 300W, if you do the clculation for this, then you relaise you need a dimmer rated at at about 490W to ensure that it will not be damaged by the loading from the lamps. Now as far as I have ever seen, the rating of dimmers tends to be 250W, 300W, 350W...

The fact that you posted this in the first place??? :lol:

Howard, that will still be in an enclosure that has an earthing terminal and so will need an Earth link.

I apologise, that is a typo on my part, it should be 32A maximum rating. The table used is the correct one for T&E and is Table 4D5A -> 70C thermoplastic (PVC) Insulated and sheathed flat cable with protective conductor (Copper Conductors)

As I am new to this forum I have no wish to get into an argument with you Ban-all-sheds, however the reference method you use is not applicable in a domestic setting and therefore not applicable to this discussion. This being the case leads me to the conclusion that you are simply trying to be...

As there was no problem with other lights on the circuit, and a "popping" sound was clearly identified as coming from the switch, it would appear that the light switch has given up the ghost. The most likely reason for this is loading being incorrect for the switch in question. From the...

There should be a point in the Installation where the main equipotential bond from the Earth stake is terminated, it is from this point that a bond should be attached to the Isolator Earth Terminal. If this main termination point happens to be in the Consumer Unit, then the Bond for the Isolator...

The size of the cable is dependent on several things Scotsman, and one of these is distance from the consumer unit to the shower. However no matter which way you work this out, 6mm is far too small fr what you want to do. The current pulled by the 10.5kW shower is over 45A and if you check the...

Hi, you should get a full PIR done on the installation, but having no earth is not necessarilly dangerous, just make sure you do not install any metal switches or light fittings. The rewire will be your only recourse I am afraid and you should get in several quotes prior to appointing anyone to...

But is not the reasonn Rovers don't sell is more to do with the public still thinking of Rover as the old British Leyland trash that ws made in the 70s and early 80? Could some of this all be due to narrow minded apathy by the public? I don't know, I never considered Rover when I bought my new...