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But every DIYer who dabbles with electrics needs to be aware of it, and they clearly arent. I'm a DIY'er who dabbles with my electrics when and how i feel fit. If i start a topic and someone yells part p at me I wont be taking offence.

Theres a lot of crap LED ones around, there a re a few good ones but the are not cheap, for bright ones its still a bit chicken and egg, in that pepole need to buy them to get the price down and the price needs to come down for people to buy them. again there are a lot of crap CFL's on the...

so what you going to use for your car headlights :wink: as Halogen incandescent lamps have a slightly better efficiency than normal tungsten ones there is a chance they will hang round longer (in terms of house hold lamps, I was only joking about the car thing, they're here to stay for cars...

There are a number of things possible but firstly i would check for a loose connection, the heating ond cooling of connections causes screws to become loose with time (hence why junction boxes etc must be accessible), this is worse on higher power appliances (hence loads of threads where people...

I think you can get isolation transformers that go on the audio lines to avoid earth hum like this, I’m sure theres probably something more appropriate but I think I have seen ones aimed at car audio, you could put these on the audio line and it would isolate the earth there, but still passing...

not by much. a bulb only emits light once there is already a whole load of current going through it. reducing the current through a bulb by a small amount reduces its light output by a large amount (or more to the point reducing the light output by a large amount reduces its energy consumption...

I like DIY projects like this. but before you go any further calculate how much it will cost you to power the lights directly off the mains without the solar. (also another problem with solar leds lights is the way the batteries are charged they dont like it and their capacity reduces rapidly...

it would help to know the wattage of the bulb, but if its from one of them 'big yellow torches' then it could be 10-50W P=IV so I=P/V at 10W I= 10W/6V =1.667A (2000mA) its resistance when running will be V=IR so R=V/I = 6V/1.667A =3.6ohm and a bulb when cold has a much lower...

what is the wattage of the bulb? what is your 6V power source? -maybe is isnt able to supply enough current!

^agreed (although to be pedantic it changes direction 100 times a second, and completes a full cycle (2 directions) 50 times a second)

Ive not checked my bills for a while :oops: , but them prices appear at first glance to be good so you would want to look carefully before changing anything.

http://www.winfieldsmegastore.com/camping_equipment/electrical/sunncamp/mains_hookups/sunncamp_1_plug_socket_mains/ma5052/not_applicable/product.html or...

If your screwdriver is of the type with an LCD and no battery and the screws are on a plastic faceplate screwed into a plastic backbox then I would agree its an erroneous reading. if the screws are such that they should be connected to earth (metal faceplate/ backbox), then as stated above it...

if its a place of work then yes. i thought we were still talking DIY? A multimeter is handy as you can do a number of basic checks with the power off (eg checking rings are rings and switch circuits are switch circuits), but yes a multimeter is only good if the user is confident and...

approved by who and for what? here we are talking about testing a circuit is dead before, for example changing a light fitting, or for testing which is a switch wire etc, not for testing a circuit meet BS.....

most cheap multimeters from my experience have a fuse that is used on the low mA ranges (i think it sometimes/usually uses this when on voltage and resistance -cant remember not blown one in a while) but when on Amp it has a thick piece of resistance wire across the terminals so if you plug the...

to be honest if i was doing work on my own house (I'm not a spark) then I would use it, I would sleeve it (not tape tape is crap), If a professional came round to my house and used old cable I'd slap him for been a cheap skate.

can you post a picture of it up?

BAS's link is to a download site, the file linked to it entitled wind.mp3 so is presumably the sound of wind. I presume this is wind that may accompany a tumbleweed or possibly hot air.[/list]

it often isnt even when they supply a 100amp holder, if your planning on supplying two showers it would be worth checking this sooner rather than later.