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Lectrician, when you say all the same to him, I was imagining what the consequences could have been if he had ended up picking lots of, say, 40A MCBs of the shelf and fitted them to everything including lighting circuits with thin cable!

Since last weekend I have been having some problems with the TV I have in the bedroom. When I first switch it on it is a greenish colour on the screen but after a while everything goes back to normal. The set has not been close to anything magnetic and anything on the picture that is red is...

A friend of mine is having some problems with her washing machine, it is a Hotpoint Aquarius 5000, about 3-6 years old. It is washes and is therefore drawing water in from the hot and cold water supplies but it wont go to the rinse cycle after the wash because it will not release the water...

Has anybody ever noticed nobody is ever around or available when you want them nowadays? Everytime you want to get hold of somebody depending whether you ring them on their mobile or house or workplace phone its either Voicemail, their phone is switched off or it's a tape that comes on. My...

I have an idea what is meant by the term 'Backfeed' but I would like it if somebody could try and explain it more so I could understand properly /see if I'm correct. I looked in a plumbing book before which had a glossary of electrical terms in it and under the term 'Single Pole Switch' it...

Quite a long while ago, (about 10-15 years back) I was given a few bits and pieces of cable etc and come across a cable with a 'blue' sheath and three conductors on the inside all the same size coloured brown, black and blue. The cable appears to be slightly more flexible than standard twin and...

I might have asked a similar question like this before. With all this talk about harmonised colours for cables, which have been used in flex for many years, when exactly did flex adopt these colours?

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Richardp, when you say prime ministers use words like B*****d these days I remember seeing John Prescott on TVs naughtiest Blunders. He was in an interview with Trevor Macdonald (all this I think might have been before Labour came to power) and he was talking about something that was not his...

Yes, the house was a farm once and so I think were the other two houses that I mentioned earlier on supplied by the same transformer, my house is a fairly isolated cottage.

All these words that some may find offensive I have been heard been used in all kinds of places. When I eas doing an electronics course in college, one of our lecturers was looking at a past exam multiple choice paper, one question was asking what the component in the circuit diagram was, one...

Lectrician, when you said this was a common setup for farms in the 60s, it has just jogged my memory. I think I remember been told that the poles were installed in about 1952 but stood there for over 10 years with no wires on as the house did not have electricity installed in it until about...

Sorry, I am unable to post any pictures in as I dont have my own computer or any camera, I am only using a computer in the public library which you cannot load your own software onto. Anyway, The transformer is supplied by two cables on an overhead line horizontally with grey insulators. From...

Sorry, perhaps I didn't explain it clear enough as I was in a rush when posting in this topic. The line comes from a transformer which has three wires coming from it which supply two houses fairly close to the transformer pole and my house quite a distance away. The poles supplying my house...

I know you get many questions on earthing systems, but I would like some comments/suggestions on the following. My house electrical installation has always relied on a TT system with an earth electrode. Wylex consumer unit with 30ma rcd for all sockets, shed and outdoor lights and 100ma Time...

Sorry, I forgot to mention I have a city and guilds 6958 level 2 and level 3 certificate, it's just that I havent actually done very much with TVs before. What I did is remove the back of the set and switch it on so I can be fairly sure the EHT cap is where the noise is coming from. I was...

Four years back my father applied for planning permission for an extension on the side of the house. However, for a start he is a bit doubtful of it now as he is concerned about the stability of the house as it is very old and made of stone. My father had a chat with a friend of his who is an...

I have just been given another TV!. The set is a toshiba set (could be around 25 years old) and when I turn it on it makes a buzzing sound, sounds as though it is coming from the EHT cap on the CRT. What I am also asking is how do I degausse it if I havent got a special hand held degaussier...

If by any chance you get a Wylex Time Delay RCD, whether you put it in a Wylex consumer unit or in a seperate enclosure before the consumer unit if the consumer unit is another brand, then the part number for the Wylex T/D RCD is WRMT100/2 and not WRM100/2. The reason I am telling everybody...

Breezer, I can undertand binning the TV but why the certificate as well?