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I have a garage CU with three ways, next to the garage door where the light switch is. I've got into the habit, when leaving the garage, of switching the lights off and flicking the MCBs for the welder and sockets off "just in case*" (I leave the lights MCB on in case the Mrs heads into the...

Perfect - cheers, mate. Off to the TLC website for me :lol:

Ordered some metal sockets for the garage from TLC; http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/GU3356.html Is there a single "standard" size of conduit that is typically used with these? 20mm or 25mm? If the answer is "it could be either", that's fine and I'll wait till they pitch up...

I do find that this often helps :mrgreen:

Cool - thanks guys. Think I'll go with b-a-s' option as that will be neater, given the layout in the garage.

Having a bit of brain fade on this, so appreciate any guidance. Last year, the builders' electrician wired up my garage - put in a CU with one circuit for the 32amp welder, lights on another circuit, then four metal-clad sockets on a ring on another circuit. All above board, tested and...

The waters were calm until 6:51pm :( How's the doorbell, ajsdoc?

Indeed. I hadn't read this thread before tonight and wondered how a discussion on bell transformers could run to three pages. Now I know :roll: It's not just Winston who keeps rising to the bait, folks...

I reckon it's one of these; http://www.heatandplumb.com/acatalog/Trianco_Aztec_Classic_Electric_Boiler_-_12kW.html Manual (including electrical ratings, which do state 51A); http://www.gotogasdocs.co.uk/f/m/Trianco%20Oil%20Boilers/Electric%20Boiler/Aztec%20Classic%20UISM.pdf

Merry xmas, b-a-s :D Can I also say, in the spirit of the season, that your posts have been a joy over the last few weeks - very measured and helpful. All the best!

Happy xmas all! Santa brought me a plasma cutter, but I'm not allowed out to the garage to try it out :D Maybe I'll try it on the turkey :twisted:

Result! Glad you got it sorted, and that you didn't get fleeced, especially at xmas!

Nah - I think that's his impression (that I don't share) of the people on here who have spent their valuable time trying to help him. However, I agree that he would be far more likely to attain his degree in proctology by looking in the mirror.

Sigh - nobody else got it? He means he spends all day looking at a**eholes :mrgreen:

Hmmmm... I wonder when they'll start telling landlords about this. I have to pay a mandatory £55 "Landlord registration fee" every year for which I get precisely nowt in return - no guidance or updated legislation. Oh well, I grumpily accept that getting an EICR done on the flat isn't a...

Not sure if this helps for electrical cables(*) but in computing circles, we use Time/Domain Reflectometers to tell us the distance to an open or short circuit on a cable; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain_reflectometer (* the caveat is that we tend to do this on known-faulty / dead...

I find it fascinating that my original rant was about OPs and their questions, yet most of the debate has centred on the responses to these posts! I wonder, then, if people are re-asking the same questions because of the protracted responses to many questions. I guess that, in hindsight, I...

On a lighter note, this is the sort of response I was expecting; :mrgreen:

Took me a while but I figured where you were going with that :D I've got a fair amount of posts on here but I'm also active on other forums with several thousand posts on a couple of them, so this is a general rant. Appreciate the responses on the thread so far, and I definitely want to...

Huh? You're not mistaking me for b-a-s, are you (it does look like something he would write :D )