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Hi, we wanted virgin media upstairs in one of the bedrooms, basically we have an unused sky dish which has been there for 20 years as well as the cable which runs from the dish to the living room. The engineer has just cut this cable from the dish and decided to run it to the upstairs room in...

Hi, My biggest concern about rcds is if you were to receive an electric shock between live to neutral which is quite easy to achieve when you are removing a socket or a ceiling rose you would very likely be electrocuted as there will be no imbalance and it will just think you are a normal load...

HI all, as above I had just unplugged a heater there was a loud pop and flash and then all the sockets tripped, the pop and flash was similar to a short circuit but not quite as intense, how could this have happened I just simply removed the plug from the socket which resulted in the above, what...

Hi, I am in the process of remodeling my bathroom, there is an old shaver socket that has not been in use for years since we got rid of the wall units, the wall in question is about to be papered, it will look daft if the blank plate was papered over and unsightly with the blank plate in...

Hi all,I have a scantronic 9651 protecting my shed at the side of the house which houses my motorbike, its just your standard garden shed made of wood, but i have made it all watertight obviously as it does have electric, outside light, alarm panel and socket for charging things. My issue is how...

Hi, just a curious question that has been bugging me, just how tight do electrical connections need to be? whether its anything from lightswitch, socket terminals to choc blocks? Obviously if they are loose you run the risk of arcing and in worst case a house fire, or if they are too tight you...

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...

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...

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 there got bit of a dilemma here. MY parents are getting a new kitchen fitted at some point in january and my dad thinking of getting a new boiler (probably will) because he thinks the old one is inefficient and is in the wrong place and in his on words "too close to the wall" .its located in...

HI all, I am trying to connect a additional sounder to my alarm system. i will give you a quick brief of my alarm system, I have a scantronic 9600 with 2 bells, 2 keypads,1 speech and text dialller,1 internal sounder, 4 pirs, 2 door contacts, 1 panic button, 1 smoke detector and 1 carbon...

hi all, I am trying to get an understanding of how my relay board works. there are no manuals for this obviously because this is obsolete \i believe. can someone please give me a kind brief on how I connect this up before i break something i cannot repair. the 9076 board has the...

hi guys me again. sorry to be a pain the ass, but need pointing in the right direction. I have connected the texecom speech and text dialler to my scantronic 9600 today (time off work). the alarm works as normal triggers the sounders ect. but the speech dialler does nothing. I will explain...

hi there me again. I am looking to install a speech and text dialler to my trusty old scantronic 9600. I am stuck for choice of which dialler to choose. I quite like the texecom dialler but I am unsure if this has a non volatile memory it does not say. my other option is the menvier sd2. I...

hi there, probably not the best site for this question but here goes. I live in an estate with approximately 250 modern houses. there is transformer in our street in a large grey box. so with nothing better to do on the weekend I had a wee peak (obviously I did not go inside it). Anyway I will...

hi guys new post. just in the process of installing another alarm system for a small flat. the system is a scantronic 9651. not really used this system for a while. Anyway I plan to install a flashguard xtra external sounder and an elmdene 400 internal sounder. not too keen on the speaker, I...

hi there, I have recently wired an external bellbox (texecom oddysey 3) for my cousin. I have bought CQR 8 core alarm ( copper clad aluminium) not the pure copper. Anyway the cable run from the panel is approx 20 meters. will using this cable instead the pure copper alarm cable effect the...

Hi there. I am having an issue with the above. my weekend project was connecting a second bellbox (texecom oddysey 3) to my alarm system (scantronic 9600). the current bellbox is also a texecom oddysey 3 btw. I have set the second unit on scb mode and wired it up as it shows in the manual...