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    false alarm

    I reckon dual tec pair is the way forward... as you say sunshine, rapidly changing heat and straight PIRs don't mix too well. The other thing you could try is ... see if the PIR has a pulse count jumper. If it does, put the pulse count jumper on as higher number as they have and see if...
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    standby ring main to save money at night?

    Hi Fellas, Interesting debate. Of course you right, I should just turn the sockets off, but fundamentally I am lazy I guess its also quite hard to figure out what level of experience people have, and to some extent your right about some of the posting, its 20 years since I was a doing...
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    standby ring main to save money at night?

    Guys, let me fill you all in on some background, before I started this little project (that you will see on channel 5 in April) I characterized my power consumption. My family were living in a bog standard link detached, 4 beds nothing special. So I bought a clamp meter just to see what the...
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    standby ring main to save money at night?

    its wales I think you missed the point, I am about to START!! isnt this the perfect time to ask a question?? When do ask questions? ? Building control notified, when we submitted the detailed drawings. but only marking the position of switches/sockets (I thought you would have know...
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    standby ring main to save money at night?

    I am about to start first fit on my conversion. I just putting in the ring mains. downstairs, I would like to put in two rings. 1) Normal ring 2) Switched ring. The idea is that, stuff thats needs to stay on all the time (i.e. the fridge etc) would be on the normal ring as per normal...
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    New Lighting circuits

    I am currently converting a barn, and just starting first fit. I would like to check a few things with you guys.... 1) I have split the light circuit, so that its left and right of the house, rather than upstairs / downstairs is this OK?? 2) Regs say that all wiring has to be accessible...
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