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Electric Shock - Never should happen, or occupational hazard?
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Hi Rob, as mentioned above there should be a bleed resistor in parallel with the capacitor, this should be a high value perhaps a few...
Thursday at 6:17 PM
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Been doing voluntary work 1 day a week for over a year and playing golf once per week - now have a 5 day membership so golf will be...
May 12, 2024
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normal-ish. you'll always get a spark when making / breaking a load like that but its not usually that visible. if you get any burning /...
May 6, 2024
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Sparking emersion heating switch
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Agree with above comments pretty normal . Light switches will do the same under load.
May 6, 2024
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BT Open Reach - rant time
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I even got caught out when my phone line dropped out, called Talk Talk who then contacted BT . They called to the house , put their test...
Apr 11, 2024
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Whats the strangest place you had a tingle - electric that is
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Tell that to the gas fitters after they service a gas boiler and the next day the there is an explosion, who do you think gets...
Apr 1, 2024
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Whats the strangest place you had a tingle - electric that is
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Should replied earlier, the strangest place would have to be in the middle of a horse paddock whilst walking an HV line looking for a...
Mar 30, 2024
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Whats the strangest place you had a tingle - electric that is
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This came from the fiscals office ( Scotland ) , as an electrician if you come across anything unsafe and you fail to do something to...
Mar 30, 2024
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Dry knuckle test
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Wow pubs ! brings back memories , like cleaning fluorescent light diffusers that were orange with nicotine or that drip of nicotine...
Mar 29, 2024
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Would the following change technically work? Or will I blow my house up if power it returned to the system?!
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Looks to me as if you don't have a neutral at the switch so no it won't work. If you connect the neutral to the earth you'll trip the RCD
Mar 29, 2024
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HNC question
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Hi John Your HNC project will be easier if you pick something that is in your field of work just now, by that I mean something you can...
Mar 28, 2024
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Upgrading home service from 60Amp to 100Amp
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correct
Mar 18, 2024
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Upgrading home service from 60Amp to 100Amp
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Agree here in central Scotland it was either 16mm copper, lead sheathed or 25mm aluminium concentric underground mains supply...
Mar 17, 2024
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Electric mains meter puzzle
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At one time RED = Disconnected supply until the revenue protection guys called 🤓
Mar 14, 2024
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ShinePhone Flummoxed!
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Hi , you can configure the shinephone app to charge the battery overnight and then if the suns shining next day it will top up the...
Mar 13, 2024
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