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    Solar panel usage

    By comparing the generation meter with the import meter, or for a real time display buy a suitable meter with sensors on import and export cables, and you can have an instantaneous net import figure. I use the Wattson, but that is unfortunately no longer available.
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    Appropriate power feed for burglar alarm

    Just interested, nothing more, but do you happen to know which part of BS EN 50131 covers this requirement? { Part 1 System requirements Part 2-2 Requirements for passive infrared detectors Part 2-3 Requirements for microwave detectors Part 2-4 Requirements for combined passive infrared and...
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    New ovens in kitchen

    By the way, if you live in Llw******y, it might be an idea to also hide any QR codes you post on-line.
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    Small sized plug socket

    It was hard going finding it but I think it's BS 4662:1970 Specification for boxes for the enclosure of electrical accessories. The date doesn't make much sense - maybe there was an earlier one. Trying to access the spec on my file server but it's playing up.
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    Landing and Bathroom Switch Question

    But he also said: which is simply not true - unless you don't have a light in the room.
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    Landing and Bathroom Switch Question

    I must have one of those very few. And your edict did not allow for exceptions.
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    Landing and Bathroom Switch Question

    Surely it depends on the bathroom?
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    Hi Fi front panel bulbs

    LEDs use MUCH less current today than the early ones. You can light a modern LED by holding one lead and touching the other lead on a random piece of metal. Every time we buy a new batch of LEDs we have to raise the resistor values in the circuit to avoid burning out the customers eyes.
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    Hi Fi front panel bulbs

    With the 300k resistor, the breakdown current will be limited to well below a damaging one, so you are safe on that score. Breakdown voltage is how zener diodes work in their normal mode of operation.
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    Ugly kitchen switch panel

    Yeah, we know.
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    bathroom extractor flat roof installation for loft conversion

    My son has a new old house. As the toilet ceiling fan didn't seem effective they decided to put a new fan in. On taking out the old fan they found it went into a duct , ran a meter towards the other end of the ceiling, and came down through a vent again.
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    Bathroom extractor fan keeps dying

    Where on earth (in your case, flat earth) do you get that from.
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    Led security light feed from existing light circuit

    It was a dangerous joke.
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    Henry motor

    Citation needed!
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    40W drawn on lighting circuit even when everything is off

    Well, I guess that can only measure current, and the 40W assumes 230/240V (174mA). It doesn't take into account power factor. So something like a permanently connected power supply with no load connected may be able to give this, but usually lighting 'transformers' are switched at the input so...
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    Standard 6AMP Pull Cord Switch as Fan Isolator?

    I disagree with your tortuous logic.
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    Bathroom extractor fan keeps dying

    I think it was meant as a joke...
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    A cracked plug socket which I use a lot for fan-heater.

    Both the socket and the plug now need replacing...
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    A cracked plug socket which I use a lot for fan-heater.

    When this happens you must change the plug at the same time.
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    Standard 6AMP Pull Cord Switch as Fan Isolator?

    That is essentially for building consumer units out of parts from different vendors. It has nothing to do with whether you must use an isolation switch.
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