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On a less technical note, I have a small stock of filament lamps especially for use in my anglepoise lamp as the weight of any larger LED lamp is way too heavy and I have to add extra springs to stop it flopping down all the time. It would end up being a angle lamp without any poise!

It’s just a simple switch. You can put your two wires in either way round. It makes no difference they just get connected together on Call for Heat.

Tell them you have a pacemaker and forcing you to have an induction hob will put your life in danger. See what they say. I know!

Thanks, not bad as it’s been 20 years since I did one last !!!!

From memory: looking at the terminals from camera angle, put the green cabled one in the centre,3. Put the double blue on 1, Put the blue/white on 2, Put the Red on 4, Put the White on 5, If the grill inner and outer elements are the wrong way round when heated, swap the Red and White over...

Looks like it’s only using 1 phase anyway.

For info for others.. Usually two fuses inside, one will intentionally blow if the door mechanism or micro switch fails. I have known it to blow if the door is slammed, the door micro switch then “beats” the safety switch opening. The fuse is then across the mains. As has been said NEVER operate...

More likely someone who's too lazy to get a replacement battery when it starts beeping because it needs replacing! Or they burn toast a lot.

For what it's worth, Iv'e replaced mine with optical throughout. Any's better than none or ones with the battery removed! Fit Heat detector in kitchen.

Check this out. Check this out. Ionisation smoke alarms (stairwells, landings, offices): Designed to react quickly to fast flaming fires, ionisation smoke alarms are most sensitive to small particles. When fires produce little or no smoke but the fuel is subject to rapid combustion, the...

That appears to be a Sangamo Teleswitch to the right. There is a small red lever behind the glass which shows the on/off state of the off peak. Also the red indicator near the 1/10th indicator on the meter shows which set of dials are active at the time.

As the new stat is battery operated you don’t need the blue neutral wire so put it in a separate connector out the way. Same for the green earth. Then connect the red live to the A terminal and yellow switch wire to B. Job done.

Tumbler switches were either Underslung or Overslung, AFAICR the intermediate was both! Might be wrong it was a long ,long time ago.

Yes, that’s the ones Flameport. Used to reverse the polarity of a battery when I was about 8 playing with batteries and bulbs.. £2 for a dozen phew. Did we have purchase tax to be added then?

I used to have a tumbler switch from the 50s that ‘‘twas intermediate.

"Once the boiler tripped for the first time, I rigged it up via an extension lead to the utility room ring main.....and it popped that too" Now I'm confused. This 10mA RCBO I presume is in a new consumer unit feeding the boiler only circuit? So are you saying when plugged into a extension lead...

Just a thought, could the 5A sockets be on a non RCD lighting circuit and bedroom sockets RCDd? Or have I read through too fast ??

And don’t forget to extend earth to new switch earth terminal.

The incoming cable will most likely be 2.5mm2. The flex poss. 1.5mm2. 1.5mm2 will be fine for a 1.5kw heater. The sizes are the square area of the conductors not measured diameter. If replacing flex best to use heat resisting type, sometimes called butyl.

Thats the neutral cable and yes the problem was overheating of the connection or contacts. Buy a new quality DP 20A switch, cut the cables back to good copper and re fit. Make sure your screws are tight!