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    Meter Reading Change for our Freehold

    The Electricity Act 1898 required that meters are certified for a finite lifetime and in domestic premises must be replaced when that time has expired. Induction meters like your are generally certified for 10 years, after which they must be replaced. It may appear to be working OK, but it's the...
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    198 kHz qrt

    The second set has a mixer oscillator that runs 465kHz (the IF) offset from the frequency being received, to create the IF signal which is then filtered, amplified and demodulated. That Oscillator radiates and some of that is received by the set receiving the SSB signal. Tune the second set...
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    198 kHz qrt

    My dad and I used to listen in to SSB transmissions placing a second, superhet receiver close to the main receiver, tuned so that it's IF oscillator acted as the BFO.
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    Plug in balcony solar UK , just a Lidl question

    Some interesting info here: https://www.victronenergy.com/upload/documents/Datasheet-MultiPlus-48V-20k-EN-.pdf I believe Erik is familiar with some Victron products. I've used them on a narrow boat and a yacht.
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    Community Hall

    Yes, me too!
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    connect BT Orange and Blue cable to socket RBGW cable

    Opps is mistaken. 2 and 5 are line. 3 is bell and not required by modern phones. https://telephonesuk.org.uk/wiring-info/
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    Lane Assist

    When I first had my ID4 the lane assist was vicious and couldn't tell the difference between the centre line and a bus stop marking. On one occasion it tried to pull me to the right into oncoming traffic. Fortunately much more gentle and easier to overrule now after a software update. It still...
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    Non-bidirectional RCD/RCBO feeding sockets, should they get a code C2 with EICR?

    GP practices are not owned or run by the NHS. They are independent organisations working under various contracts to provide NHS funded services to their registered patients.
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    Where and which relays to buy

    And note that functionally, DPDT relays will meet both your requirements. Just don't connect the contacts you don't need.
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    EICR, CU Fire Board - What Rules are Retrospective?

    On offer at £108 at the moment
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    Bidirectional and data sheets.

    Could it be something to do with how the electronics are powered?
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    Bidirectional and data sheets.

    Ask the manufacturers. However, if the data sheet doesn't state that it is bidirectional, I'd bet there's a 99.99% probability that it isn't! MK bidirectionals have it printed on the body (and also on the box):
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    Microsoft subscription

    Final documents, i.e.those which the recipient should not be editing, should always be sent in PDF format, not in docx or odf format. Then you avoid the above problems and your clients are not required to have MS Office, or indeed any WP software at all. MS Word, OpenOffice and Libre Office can...
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    Air con unit question

    Not if the aircon is running, it condenses out and drains away. Aircon will DEmist the windows in a car, that's one of its major benefits
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    Is it just me

    I was at UCL from '73 to '76 and we had our own computer centre with an IBM 360 running HASP on OS360. We learnt Fortran ( I later taught myself PL/1 and used that for coursework) and we had a couple of 029 card punch machines to prepare our own decks, which we then took to the basement of the...
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    Cheap easy way to make stairs look good

    What's there at the moment? Photos please.
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    I broke the main fuse seal

    Breach of what contract? The consumer's contract is with their supplier, not the DNO.
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    Wago snapping

    Just tried it - I couldn't push fit a Wago 221, but I could the Ideal.
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    How do I wire this a socket?

    As with just about every other topic in this forum.
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