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You could *try* connecting it to one of those B16s and see what happens, be sure to change it back though - then you'll know whether the suggestion above would work.

Leatherman and maglite, regardless of what kind of job I'm tackling. For day to day work, BT issue long nosed pliers, and a long screwdriver.

That's much better and safer than my idea in the post above, why on earth did I not think of that - the basic principle remains the same, you want the breaker not to go when the light is switched on, but retain adequate overload protection for the cable - no technical reason why you couldn't 4mm...

Or spur the feed for the fitting off a switched fused spur on the ring main marked up as such?

:lol: 8) :twisted:

That's a CT100 sized cable, good stuff too, nice and thick with a good dielectric - you need CT100 sized F connectors.

WTF is it with some people on here???

If you're really keen you can fit a separate NTE5 for PSTN only elsewhere (if you have quite a few sockets) or change everything for capacitor sockets thus eliminating the ringer wire from the whole installation, and make up a twisted pair flylead for the connection to the router - check what...

Is it an electric soakaway, wired to UK standards? :lol: :roll:

Walkie talkie? Baby monitor? Mobile phone?

So you're going to keep arguing, even though I've stopped and admitted I may be wrong because I didn't have the time to analyse everything said in the thread so far. I'd like to stop this argument, because I can't be bothered with it anymore, it's not helping the op now is it. If you want to...

However it's not recommended to run unfiltered pstn carrying broadband and ethernet data down the same cable, as it can affect the broadband sync and error rate - so I'm told, haven't verified it myself. You can also run ethernet down telephone cable for about 20-30 metres (but probably not...

OP - leave the blue pair off completely, and use the orange pair (this is important, you must use a pair and not a wire from each colour pair) to take the signal to 2 and 5 upstairs - the microfilter should make your phone ring upstairs so no need for the other wire (number 3, the bell wire)...

Don't try and punch cat 5 cable into the krone connectors on telephone gear, it doesn't go in properly (although it looks like it has)

It's not the line, it's your cordless....

Any extension bell will work, connect it between terminals 2 and 3 of your master socket faceplate or a socket with a capacitor in it. You should be aware however that these play havoc with broadband and can render your broadband connection almost unusable - the solution to this is to fit a...

Not some additional work, just doing the same job slightly differently and then doing some additional work if time allowed - we'll have to agree to disagree on this one if that's ok, I don't see the point in bickering - I think the point that we are both separately trying to make has gotten...

You're not putting a socket above the hob are you? Or is it an isolator for the extractor? Answer to the question you have asked is in Spark123s post anyway....

If at first you don't succeed: Go back to the workshop and get a bigger hammer.....

They are, it's the badly whited out bit on the photo right in the centre, the two bars are joined by a link at 90 degrees to the plane of the socket.