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Hi, All I propose to do is downsize the mcb to allow me to take the feed from the spur to the attic as well as comply with wiring regs, keep it all above board, I know some people wouldn't give this a second thought and carry on regardless without giving a rats arse about regs. I like to do...

will this elmdene sounder be enough to scare someone off? cheers

Thank you:), I will downsize the breaker to 20A. Its much easier than messing around with fcus. thanks again(y)

Hi, sorry to bring this back up, this time it is totally related to the addition spur, the substation and everything was just me trying to make a point and was rather annoyed at time., I realize the regs are the regs and if one wishes to comply then they must be followed whether we like them or...

Hi, I had a look at the suggested series and found the elmdene INT402S, is this one of the sounders you were talking about? Looks like a nice design very similar to my old AS256 but more white and shiny. I imagine 120db indoors will be more than enough to scare someone out the property?. cheers

Hi, Can you guys recommend from experience an extremely loud and effective 12v internal sounder siren with a backup battery if possible, I want something that will really batter your ears and drive someone insane enough for them to leave the property, I have seen the masterblaster which sounds...

I see, I will buy another oddysey if the opal lens on novagard doesn't make a difference. I was reading other posts and apparently sounder failure was a common thing with texecom, but I trust they have fixed them by now. The texecom strobe was definitely much brighter than the novagard I can...

Hi sorry for late reply long day yesterday and was ****ing knackered, do you mean like a separate strobe unit or beacon? (those round things with xenon tubes) mounted next to bellbox? thanks

Hi all, just so you understand, loudness wise the novagard is more than adequate for me,it really hammers your ears, I think it is actually louder than my older sounder(odyssey 1) when that was working properly and it difinitely did before however I tested it a while back and it wasn't it...

ironically that's the very sounder I just removed and replaced, it was a odyssey 1, I ended up removing it because it wasn't sounding properly the tone was very quiet for the most part with random louder chirps like it was trying to go but it couldn't, the strobe on the oddy 1 was better than...

thanks iggifer that explains alot, so its basically all about diversity, getting over the fact that nothing will be switched on all at once. worst case if the sub and distribution cables were overloaded nothing bad happens straight away, I guess the weather helps the situation providing the...

Hi, thanks I will give the opal a go see how that goes, failing that is there a decent bellbox out there? one thats loud with bright strobe, I have seen a lot of deltabells round my area with their backlights, I might try one out mind you it will probably look daft having backlit on without a...

thanks guys, I probably got a bit carried away, I will do it by the book, I'll use erics idea. Out of curiosity how has the substation and the distribution main I mentioned never ever caught fire or failed for 20 odd years without problems? surely 60 houses loaded on single 4 core 185mm waveform...

Hi all, I have fitted a gardtec novagard 2 bellbox just recently, its extremely loud and comfort leds are outstanding but the only issue is the strobe, well its not really a strobe as in a xenon tube its more of a big led in the middle of the comfort leds, I find this to be very dim I can barely...

Hi, I am struggling to understand why you cannot spur of a spur on a ring final? I know you are technically not allowed to do according to wiring regulations, but in reality how likely is there to be a consequence? I understand 2.5mm is rated at 26amps max if clipped direct,(it can probably take...

Unless you fancy your chances against a substation fuse probably rated at around 800amps! i'd leave it well alone. Most substation fuses do not operate(unless they are very old and suffered abuse in the past) when the service cable gets damaged but it will have fun rearranging your face and body...

thanks for the replies, so it is run in a radial finishing at a either pot end or at a linkbox ready to be backfed by another substation. Just one thing though I am going a bit off topic here but I was wondering, I have read on the news few years back about a lv substation getting damaged either...

Hi all, I have the above question. Lets say there is a estate with 300 houses all with gas boilers fed by a 11kv substation.Lets say there is lv 3 phase and neutral cable coming out the substation supplying 100 houses, I know the main cable runs past the houses then each house gets jointed...

hi guys, good news for you well for me cenrtainly. parents decided to keep the boiler and accept that if it ain't broken don't fix it. I explained and they eventually understood. thanks again for all the advice. cheers:)

thanks for your replies, I will do my best to save this old girl. There was a problem infact the only problem I can ever remember a few years back and that was the fan seizing, the engineer came out put a bit of wd40 gave it a few spins and BINGO its working again and has worked fine ever since...