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Yes, that's the part that concerns me. I'm not sure though what circumstances would cause a person to be shocked. Would they have to be touching a metal part of the system, which is only the pump? How can someone receive a shock by touching a handrail as in the example above? The handrail is...

I really should stop reading articles on the internet. We have an in-ground liner swimming pool installed around 1980, which has a pump and 12v underwater light, no other electrics. In 1997 we had a new house consumer unit fitted and at that time the installation was changed from TT to PME. The...

Yes, that's spot on. I'll remove them and possibly power up tomorrow.

The two wires are very thin, a few mm in diameter - with an even thinner copper core. They are not what anyone would use to connect an appliance to the mains. They are connected to the power in side of the choc-block's two end terminals, so if they were left in place they would be live. They go...

Thanks for that. I was planning to discard the two 'spare' wires. They couldn't be left live and exposed, and I can't see any use for them.

Can anyone help? There are the two thin black wires coming from T1 and T2 that go nowhere And this is the connection label. Do I just connect to T1 and T2 as in the l/h side diagram?

I am replacing our swimming pool pump and I am a little confused with the electrical connections. It is a single phase 0.33 HP 230 v motor sold through a UK retailer but made in Spain. The connection box has a choc-box connector with three terminals. On the pump side the connections are...

In our kitchen are a large and small electric oven and two microwaves. All four have digital clocks: when we have a power outage (which is occasional) they have to be reset manually. We had an outage last Monday afternoon, and I reset them on Tuesday morning. I am quite nerdy about setting them...

I was commenting on the insane price of the refurbishment kits, which go from £270 to £482. Yes, I am going for a new pump. Yeah, I've had trouble with the seals before. Oh yes, the pump just blew the main fuse, so something electrical. I haven't dared trying it again as it's a pain resetting...

Out of curiosity, when an electrical appliance is advertised as so many watts, be it a vacuum cleaner, drill or food mixer, is that the P1 or P2 rating for the motor? Pool pumps seem to be rated by the horse power equivalent to the P2 watts.

Thanks for the replies. The inground pool is about 48,000 litres. The reasons why I am considering replacing the old pump with a similarly powered one are: 1) The old pump (P2 = 250W) has worked fine in our rather unsophistcated setup for around 20 years. It circulates, it vacuums. 2) Pool...

My existing pump is an ITT Marlow MC71. I can get a refurbishmant kit for £365, just the same price as a new Sta-Rite pump, which has a good reputation. The Marlow is speed 2880 rpm, P1 0.45 kw and P2 0.25 kw. The Sta-Rite is speed 2850 rpm, P1 0.4 kw and P2 0.25 kw. I guess I need reassurance...

When we moved to our house some 30 years ago, we were blessed (and cursed financially) with a swimming pool. The circulation pump has failed after twenty years or so and I'm replacing it like for like. The old pump label says P1 is 0.45 kw, and P2 is 0.25 kw. I understand that P1 is the wattage...

It appears that Sony only offer two 32" TVs now, the WE613 and the RE403, both from 2017. I don't think that the RE has wifi, so that's out. The 1080p 2016 models are still available, but I'm beginning to wonder whether they are worth it.

I realsise that this might have been gone over before.... After 12 years with a Sony Bravia KDL-20S2000 20" 720p HD ready TV, it's time for my tired eyes to move up a size or two. (Our viewing distance is about 6 feet, the room does not lend itself to huge TV screens, and nor do we). The...

I can live with it, it's just a curiosity I'm er, curious about. Thanks for all the replies.

We have had the radio some time and it has always behaved like this. As far as I know there are no internal batteries. Last night the radio was turned off around 6 pm as the TV took over. I turned the radio back on at midnight and it was still tuned to Radio 4. I turned the radio off and turned...

Well, irrespective of the pedigree of the set, I am curious what causes this behaviour, and why only overnight?. We also have a Pure Elite Series 2 Stereo DAB portable, at an eye-watering £85, which has none of the faults of the Zennox but has the plummiest sound you could imagine, and then the...

Some time ago our faithful FM portable radio finally broke apart, so it was time for a new kitchen radio. Welcome to the world of DAB, where sets cost twice as much, use three times as much electricity, and reception is four times worse (I know that doesn’t really make sense, but you get the...

And to muse a little on my original problem, it seems that one can have a signal strong enough on all channels to watch any program on FreeView through the Humax. When watching on one channel and recording on another (the Humax has two tuners), or recording on two channels, it appears to be the...