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We've actually had some good news. An electrician we know popped by. The trays of elements are actually three individual elements in series. When one pops the three stop. basically we've grouped the good ones together and bad ones together, and it's kicking out a fair bit of heat. Nowhere...

It's a group/consortium deal I believe

thanks, yeah we are aware of that and the filters were one of the first things we checked (and replaced with spares that were lying by the unit). We'll definitely be looking at our options to heat the place safely. Thanks for all your help.

well, rough calcs - approx 5p kw @ 30ky = £1.50 per hour on full (which it ain't working anywhere near at the moment!) For background, the unit is being used for painting scenery for stage productions, so it's basically needed to heat the unit to dry the paint in low temperatures and would only...

Hey, thanks for the reply. Yeah we know it's 3 phase and isolated it locally, at the CU and the isolator by the DNOs cutout just to be safe! We wouldn't repair it ourselves either, just trying to do some of the legwork to see if it's worth repairing at all. Thanks again

Hi, long shot but wonder of anyone can point me in the right direction. A voluntary group I'm involved in recently acquired an old (unused for 10 plus years) shop unit to use as a workshop. The unit is heated by a 30Kw forced air ducting system which we've tried to bring back into commission...

Indeed that was the experience we had, it needs this, this, this and this.... Extremely unlikely and alarming for a new appliance! In the end, they gave in and gave us the 'model up' for the same price, and lo and behold, no issues!

I have a friend who had a phone call from an overseas call centre, asking for him, he replied "this is actually pc inspector ABC, mr xyz was murdered and you are now part of the investigation, do not hang up the phone, we have traced your call..." Never heard a sales person panick so much in my...

Had the problem multiple times in the last few months with both one of my own PIR halogen floodlights and a relatives, on closer inspection one of the springy contacts at an end looses its tension, presumably due to wear over the years inserting/removing lamps. WITH THE POWER OFF, a quick...

The answer was "it's fine the other two fixings are ok" ok, we'll worry over the safety chains/bonds, but who cares about the actual bar. I wasn't bothered, the desk was on a 20m extension cable so I could sit up the back of the hall, so it wouldn't bother me if it fell [/selfish] :mrgreen:

Well these were a bit better! steel, or aluminium, whatever metal, internally wired and bolted to the ceiling, but it was a leak that weakened the area around one of the fixings, and caused it to fail, but they couldn't refix them as the ceiling was full of asbestos :shock: So the whole...

The first installation I spoke about with the martin mac was a medium sized theatre, relatively new (2008) The dodgy install was my secondary school, in school hall with a medium sized stage, install 'upgraded' to the strand setup approx early nineties, but never maintained so in awful state...

yeah, it was a neglected setup. (Strand Tempus dimmers, 12 channels over 2 dimmers) by the time I got involved in operating it, there was only 8 channels operational (not fused, burned out I assume), and the bulbs were popping on the profiles on the 20odd ft high ceiling, but the council just...

also, people assume that the safety bonds are the be all and end all of the problems. When I was at school we had a similar issue, It was two safety chains holding up a group of 4 coda's for the cyc (three gorups). I was aware of the fact chains were not "politically correct" anymore, but...

Well the theatre only had the one type of bonds on all of the fittings in the building, the larger ones, suppose it's one way of making sure the bond will support the weight! edit: They just didn't have enough of them!

I have an interest in lighting and help with the technical side in a local theatrical group. We were recently in the theatre for the lighting setup and were short of safety bonds for a Martin Mac moving light which is fairly heavy. We suggested swapping a bond from from a relatively light...

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I got it, either the the camera, or switch is upside down! lol

I wasn't too sure, the OP stated that one of the lights were not working until he removed the supply, but he wasn't to bothered. I don't know if he means it's not working as in "off" or not working as in broken!

How is the light controlled when it works normally? Is it on a timer, pir, or photocell that may have failed, but the emergency function is still working due to the perm. live still being present?