Some people will have learnt the very important fact that Winston1 should be ignored.
Electric Garage Door not opening
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Some people will have learnt the very important fact that Winston1 should be ignored.
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Because it was wrong. Correct terms are important especially withsomething as dangerous as electricity.
But there no harm and a lot of good in correcting him.
Have you ascertained that?
Someone who has used a term for decades is highly unlikely to change the name they use just as the wrong words you use and are told about.
Wylex STANDARD fuseboxes were still made in 2008 and many were fitted with mcbs
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Thank you everyone for all of your help & support.
I emailed the original fitters yesterday & they came out today as apparently when the light bulb in the unit blows, it can blow the internal fast blow glass fuses. It was the 1.25A which was under one of the covers that someone mentioned
They charged £85 + Vat and changed the fuse, changed the bulb, checked & adjusted the chain track and made sure it was closing level etc etc.
Many thanks
Mrs Bling
I emailed the original fitters yesterday & they came out today as apparently when the light bulb in the unit blows, it can blow the internal fast blow glass fuses. It was the 1.25A which was under one of the covers that someone mentioned
They charged £85 + Vat and changed the fuse, changed the bulb, checked & adjusted the chain track and made sure it was closing level etc etc.
Many thanks
Mrs Bling
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Is winston an altnick of banal_sheds?
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There's two answers to that.
1. He learned a number of dubious discussion techniques from BAS and then got BAS banned/wanting to leave, so he could ply his tedious trade here, unfettered by BAS. But he is by no means as intelligent as BAS, which is being polite, so no is isn't him.
2. He then, for reasons that are probably unhealthy to speculate on, decided to pretend to be BAS on the Screwfix forum.
Thank you for the update and outcome.
My apologies for the incorrect posts from one particular member w and the resulting mess he creates.
BAS chose to leave probably due to the bullying he got on here. Nothing to do with me.
What do you know about intelligence?
Wrong. Where ever did you get that from?
Well strangely I wondered if BAS on this site and you were one and the same and it seems this has been discussed several times, such as; https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/what-a-strange-coincidence.557249/#post-4784057
Reading some of your posts... it seems more than you.
If you're not BAS on the other site, why do you plagiarize his posts, or alternatively complain he is plagiarizing yours.
Since Post #14 there has been little information which might be of assistance to Bling, concerning his Garage Door Opener !
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
It is "interesting" that the term "Consumer Unit" does not really convey much "information", unless one is "in the know".
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) defines a consumer unit, also known as a consumer control unit or electricity control unit, as
"a particular type of distribution board comprising a type-tested co-ordinated assembly for the control and distribution of electrical energy, principally in domestic premises, incorporating manual means of double-pole isolation on the incoming circuit(s) and
an assembly of one or more fuses, circuit breakers, residual current operated devices or signalling and other devices proven during the type-test of the assembly as suitable for use.”
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_unit )
Hence, a “Consumer Electricity Control Unit” could contain “fuses”.
If one searches for “Consumer Unit”, the sites for both RS Components and Screwfix come up with Consumer Unit and Fuse Board “bracketed together” and each site has an “explanation”
RS Components state
Consumer Units. A consumer unit, also known as a fuse board or fuse box is an essential device found in homes and commercial buildings.
ScrewFix states
A consumer unit, also known as a fuse board or electrical fuse box, distributes electricity from the mains supply to individual circuits around a property.
In Australia, such “installations” (again, usually using DIN-rail MCBs, RCBOs and RCDs) are termed “Switchboards”,
although the only “switch” usually found on these is the “Main (Isolation) Switch”.
In AS/NZS 3000, at (1.4.91) ,“Switchboard” is defined as
“An assembly of circuit protective devices, with or without switchgear, instruments or connecting devices, suitably arranged and mounted for distribution to, and protection of, one or more submains or final sub-circuits or a combination of both”
In North America, the equivalent (but markedly different) installation is termed a “Panel”
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
It is "interesting" that the term "Consumer Unit" does not really convey much "information", unless one is "in the know".
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) defines a consumer unit, also known as a consumer control unit or electricity control unit, as
"a particular type of distribution board comprising a type-tested co-ordinated assembly for the control and distribution of electrical energy, principally in domestic premises, incorporating manual means of double-pole isolation on the incoming circuit(s) and
an assembly of one or more fuses, circuit breakers, residual current operated devices or signalling and other devices proven during the type-test of the assembly as suitable for use.”
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_unit )
Hence, a “Consumer Electricity Control Unit” could contain “fuses”.
If one searches for “Consumer Unit”, the sites for both RS Components and Screwfix come up with Consumer Unit and Fuse Board “bracketed together” and each site has an “explanation”
RS Components state
Consumer Units. A consumer unit, also known as a fuse board or fuse box is an essential device found in homes and commercial buildings.
ScrewFix states
A consumer unit, also known as a fuse board or electrical fuse box, distributes electricity from the mains supply to individual circuits around a property.
In Australia, such “installations” (again, usually using DIN-rail MCBs, RCBOs and RCDs) are termed “Switchboards”,
although the only “switch” usually found on these is the “Main (Isolation) Switch”.
In AS/NZS 3000, at (1.4.91) ,“Switchboard” is defined as
“An assembly of circuit protective devices, with or without switchgear, instruments or connecting devices, suitably arranged and mounted for distribution to, and protection of, one or more submains or final sub-circuits or a combination of both”
In North America, the equivalent (but markedly different) installation is termed a “Panel”
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