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    quick armoured cable question

    Awesome, thanks guys. Will get the proper glands, and earth strands and third core Cheers
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    quick armoured cable question

    HI, thanks. The council came to 'change' the sewer (as it was sinking) that runs up our garden and between our garage and house. Whilst they were filling the hole up i asked them if they would lay some SWA between the house and the garage which they did - didn't cost me more then a few cups...
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    quick armoured cable question

    if i had three core armoured SWA cable, with all white sheeths just labeled core 1, core 2 etc - for single phase use do i use one of the cores for earth, or the metal armoured strands? Seems like using the strands is very fiddley. Cheers chaps :D
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    miele washing machines warning

    if your house insurance does not have accidental damage then DO NOT break off the knob on the front of the machine when moving it through a door. Miele just quited me £380 for a new one!!! not a new washing machine - just the control panel module the switch os moulded into. Silly design...
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    alarm and DEOL and resistors query

    er no, i didn't look closely enough :cry: thanks for all the tips. As for insurance, its down as no alarm so no probs there. Interestingly enough i got an online quite from direct line for my house insurance as it is with no alarm. i then went back and changed the parameters to a...
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    alarm and DEOL and resistors query

    HI, thanks reply DEOL is double end of line, apparently. The reason i used 4 core cable was that i was replacing an old system (about 15yrs) and there was already 4 core cable there and would have been a pain in the butt to change it all as much of it is buried in walls. But anyway...
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    alarm and DEOL and resistors query

    Hi, i installed a ADE captive8-20 alarm with 2 RKP's a few weeks ago. there are a total of 5 zones each zone has one ADE dual tech PIR I used 4 core cable for each zone - 2 wires for + and -, and the other 2 wires i connected one to the tamper terminal, the other to the detector...
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