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better off to connect it to the other power source as its a lot to put on a lighting circuit, think its time to get someone in to do a proper job so get 3 quotes and chose the best quote

any markings on the lights such as 110-240 or something similar as if so it should be ok to use but don't forget the yanks use different wiring colours should you be wiring them in permanently so don't just connect colours together a make/model of the offending item would be nice as well as...

You need to consider that you lose a certain number of volts per meter and you need to have enough of them to be able to use your equipment and the smaller the size of cable the more your lose per meter so a fatter cable is better generally and if you decide to slap even more gear you wont have...

While you have the hole dug lay some waterproof trunking and run some cat 5/6 cables so you can have network/phone access should you need them (you can run normal phones over network cables using modtaps) and most electricians can pull and terminate the stuff and any money you save will...

Is someone swapping their dead bulbs for your good ones in between matches?

The DNO will charge and it won't be a small number, the best thing to do is to ring them up and get them to give you a quote which will probably involve a site visit and don't go messing with it yourself as its their property I'm sure Westie will be able to give some ideas of the technical...

Extend the cable to the wall and put in a new socket or a FCU in the bedroom? it seems like these days there's never enough sockets etc and since you have the floor up its a perfect time to add one Main thing to worry is that once you've seen one piece of cowboy work whats the rest of it like

It'll probably be easier to just wire them up using cat 6 cable to a central point and with homeplugs you never know if the site electrician knows that they're on the electrical supply and may just change something and you'll have to then work out how to bypass his latest change, wireless can be...

This some sort of re-branded Chinese crap that will probably last about 2 weeks before you have to rip it out and start again? Anyone got a few spare quid and a test rig to give one some abuse?

I assume these are homeplugs, a quick and easy way to test is to turn everything off at the fuse board except for the circuit and plug in a lamp etc at the required socket and see if there is power and in theory they should be on the same circuit and you have done that turn all the other...

I doubt that there's any regulations and Virgin would prefer it that way as you can imagine how many problems they'd have to sort out should they have to start running cables to the CU and what happens when they find a potentially dangerous fault and the extra training/gear required before their...

Our VM cable modem has an isolator screwed onto the wall in a little white box so it should be isolated from the rest of the world once its passed that but i suppose its the 6 inches of cable poking through the wall that's the concern but ours has another one outside on the wall in a brown box...

Have a word with the owner as they may sort it out for you as they may have an electrician so all you need to do is to pay for the work needed and everyones happy

The cutout and meter look rather new and the guy doing the install certainly wasn't short on phase labels, probably done just before the room was converted as would the DNO even supply a cutout to a point above a bath with just some painted wood to protect it? Personally i'd want it moving as...

Theres nothing to stop you using whatever colours you want this side of the plug socket and if you're an electrical engineer designing your own stuff you may like to use pink and orange cabling with white earth and while it'll confuse anyone else it doesn't matter and since its ebay they'll be...

My thoughts as well, and if you want to make a few bob i'm sure any local steampunk fans would love to pay a few bob for something like that to give some item a genuine vintage look and i'm sure with some work you could make it safe to use

Also don't forget once your local scrotes realise you have a source of free fuel outside the building they'll be there all the time filling up their tanks and if the genny is worth a few bob they'll take that as well

If they want to make volt sticks useful they should include a temperature mode so that it'll tell you if your cuppa's too cold then at least it'll have a definite use and will be worth the space in a tool box :D

Given you got a shock from the overhead cable which sounds a bit suspect to me i'd give the DNO a call and while you're waiting trace the earth cable and see where it goes as well as it should go to a nice spike or two in the ground but could be to a gas/water pipe as was the way in the good old...

or stir a cup of tea :D