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But put the box over the point where the cable exits the wall, after drilling a 10mm hole in the back. Pack around the cable entry with compound: https://www.superlecdirect.com/r391-electrical-weathproof-compound-2x250g/ (At a push, silicone - but I don't like it!) to ensure its sealed against...

No thats it, Disconnect the brown and blue of the flex and remove it and refit the plastic cover on the rose. If you want to be super nice to anyone comming after you, then take the black strain relief clip off the flex and leave it on the inside of the rose cover before putting it back

This all seems a bit muddled up, as the proevious poster says, there is nothing illegal about a looped supply, generally undesirable but illegal no. No longer acceptable for new work but theres many out there that exist just fine, the DNOs are under an opligation to unloop them if you notify...

Looking at a quick job for a family member, bathroom lighting needs replacing as it energy inefficent hallogen and the fittings are going all corroded and manky, existing is 12V with individual transformers on a dimming pullcord. So fittings will come out and get replaced with 240v dimmable LED...

You should get some alternative quotes, the £240 materials cost for 3x starbreaker rcbos seems a bit high. They are just shy of £35 https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/4624072-32a-sp-1-module-6ka-type-b-30ma-rcbo so I would expect somewhere in the region of £130 allowing for approx 25%...

I would say that provided the box terminal is a proper brass terminal that has been attached to the box, then yes it would be acceptable (but somewhat un-prefered*), I wouldn't want to use one of those that are pressed out of the box themselves with another bit of galv for this purpose, they...

Looking at this: https://data2.manualslib.com/pdf7/306/30506/3050504-elkatherm/ett100.pdf?13a07201fe3c3d7e6ea02aba51cf8e01&take=binary It looks like holding both up and down buttons until SP (spart pairing) is shown on the screen puts it in pairing mode

Because the screws arn't strcitly an ECP in their own right and unlikely to come into contact with electrical parts. What they do result in though, is effectly an extension of the metal backbox, (which could come into contact with electrical parts quite easily) which is not considered an ECP due...

I would have thought this: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/electrical-tapes/1347340 would be the type of thing you could use to repair the insulation, though there must be better places to buy than having to pay RS prices.....

Before we all alienate @Dazio eith bickering.... The answer is, yes, whatever happens you'll need to get a cable back to that mains position, whether that be a direct feed to the EVSE, or an uprated garage supply from which it can be supplied. You will also need a separate unit there (either a...

That was my first thought, but the earth appears to be single stranded, whereas 7/029 would have a 3/036. You could order 2.5mm twin as stranded*, which still (at least in teh version I saw) had a solid earth, but like you say, it looks bigger than 2.5mm in the picture, so assuming 4mm *It was...

Going back a few years, when we had switch start fittings, with heavy gear trays with magnetic chokes that got hot, if someone had drilled and screwed the fitting, the heat of the choke would cook the back of the plastic over the years, which would go hard and brittle, and then, especially if...

You'll have no issues with 60A rated connector block, but why don't you just buy a good quality socket and be done with it

NO! You have created a high resistance joint on the ring and the feed to the spur, which will likely generate heat when loaded and may arc and flash depending on how exactly they are. The earth is included as well, so you could have unrealiable earth continuity to the spur socket, and not...

I must admit, that when I first got my car, before I got round to getthing the Zappi bought and installed, the granny charger was in use on a extension lead with a 4 gang rubberised trailling socket, run under the garage door and rather than being in an enclosure, I simply rested it and the...

No connection with these, other than having picked up the recommendation from the speak ev forums: You can also order similar made up from tough leads: https://toughleads.co.uk/products/ev-extension-lead and if you order the Powercon connector with it that will be fitted to it too...

Its the same electrically, just a different way of implimenting it, not often done because generally you dont want the extra cables in the lighting rose. If you think of the conversion method as connecting the switches to one enother like for like, i.e. com to com, L1 to L1, L2 to L2, and then...

Thats what I read the OP as the first time, but I'm not sure thats what he meant to write, perhaps @msheppard36 could confirm, but I eventually parsed it as: There being two outgoing cables on the CU way thats appears to be the issue: Summerhouse and garage sockets He disconnected the garage...

And an extra bacon sarnie shooved into your jakcet pocket for the Journey, don't forget to swipe the tea bags and bickies from the room as well :LOL:

@Harry Bloomfield . If you want to try and maximise the benifiet on the electricty side, you can get a bit of a heads up on which way the price is going next by checking the carbon intensity on : https://www.carbonintensity.org.uk/ Generally the more carbon intense the grid is, the higher the...