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I know this forum is full of electricians, but I'm hoping one of you guys is also an expert in electronics and can help me with a project.. if so, keep reading! I am trying to run a 56V Ego leaf blower on a timer, using a remote momentary switch. The timer relay I am using is a Tele E1ZM10...

Hi, Just a couple of questions on EV chargers. We already have a 7kW EV charger installed, the ENA form was used and SSEN upgraded the supply fuse to 100A. Now after a change of car, we need to change the charger for a different brand, still 7kW. Do we need to go through the whole process again...

Here is the scenario. EICR has been done on a flat. The bathroom doesn't have its lighting circuit protected by RCD. Other circuits in the flat are RCD protected. There is supplementary bonding in place in the bathroom with good continuity between metal pipes and from metal pipes to earth...

Hi all, I'm looking for a metal oval bulkhead that has two entry points (or suitable edges) for 20mm metal conduit to be connected from both ends. They will be horizontally mounted in line with horizontal galvanised conduit. The sort of thing you'd get in an industrial unit. I can find...

Hi all, I have a standard vented copper hot water cylinder, less than a year old, with one immersion for hot water only, no boiler. The immersion heater has a cut out in the body of the immersion and a separate thermostat. The cut out keeps tripping for no apparent reason. The thermostat...

Just a quick question.. At which point on a light fitting do you measure its height to the floor? I have a light fitting outside the shower enclosure but within 600mm of it. It is fixed to the ceiling at 2.4m The 3 adjustable spotlights on the light fitting are 2.2m from the floor when...

Hi all, This may be an easy one to answer, but might be hard to explain... I maintain a residential property which relies on three flood water pumps to avoid being flooded when the water table is high. The electrician has fitted an ATS generator. As the building is remote from the main house...

I hope this is posted in the right category. I live in an 1890s detached house, next to a similarly aged detached house. Our roof water goes down a gully into a manhole on our neighbour's side of our house. Imagine an alley way between the two houses, that's where it is, although it now forms...

Hi all, I'm looking at fitting an unvented electric water heater in a ground floor cupboard to replace an old immersion tank. Might fit a Hyco Powerflow or an Eldom if they're any good. ? Anyway, as the cupboard is in the centre of the house there is no way to run a discharge pipe other than...

Hi everyone. I have a resistor I'm struggling to identify. The four bands are either Brown - Black - Brown - Black, or Black - Brown - Black - Brown. I think I'm right that Black can't be a tolerance figure as it is zero. So this would make the resistor 1 ohm with 1% tolerance. Reading it...

Hi everyone, I have a 350mA 18W supply going to a wine cabinet in my house. I also have a couple of 3W 700mA LED fixtures I would like to fit. Would I be able to run them in series on that driver at half brightness or is that not recommended? 1.5W per lamp of light would be fine. Or should I...

Hi there, just hoping someone has had this specific problem... A friend of mine has a Zanussi Lindo 1000 washer dryer. It stopped working and wouldn't drain. Apparently it displayed code E6h, but I have not been able to replicate this. Anyway, I popped round, drained the water, opened the...

I have a PME system. Is it ok to fit a fused spur to a circuit in the house and run cable to a pond pump in the garden, or do I have to fit a rod?

We have a house on three phases, the main house on phase one and the guest house on phase two. TP Link socket adapters are used to send ethernet from the upstairs router to the ground floor. In order to get a data connection to the guest house we can fit two single sockets in the meter...