electric

Hi all, Just moved into a house with an old dimmer switch in it, that requires a BS646 3A fuse to work. The fuse has gone, so was thinking I'd just put in a modern 1G1W switch. The front of the existing dimmer looks like this. The wiring at the back (this house has the old UK wiring...

I recently bought a 12V Halogen light fixture that takes upto 5 20W G4 lamps. Inside this fixture is an electronic transformer that supplies 12V AC current to 35W-105W load. Looking for LED bulbs, I see most of the 12V AC LED G4s are 3-5W, which combined together wouldn't exceed the minimum 35W...

Can any one help me what the hell some one were thinking! I'm wanting to hang a new light up at my new house and the old tenants have took there old light and left me with this, I'm quite handy but I've no idea why it's like this?

If I Shower for over 5 minutes it trips the fuse box. I can reset it, the shower switch and half my houses plug sockets, the other half however trips out over and over. I have unplugged and turned off every socket connected to this second fuse and try again but it still won't stay on. Usually...