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EF: Reflections on Transitioning from Plumbing to Electrical Work
Reflections on Transitioning from Plumbing to Electrical Work After working as a plumber and gas engineer for nearly 12 years, I decided two years ago to retrain as an electrician. It’s been a challenging but rewarding journey, and I’m on track to be fully qualified by May/June 2025. Along the...
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How to drive manually HT1621B LCD driver IC? Im trying to figure out how to drive (manually-bitbang) a HT1621B LCD driver IC. It is capable of driving multiplexed LCDs. They are very cheap, but only in smd form, which is a bit of a challenge to solder all its tiny 48 pins. See...
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EF: Help identifying these diodes
Help identifying these diodes Hello everyone! Im trying to fix a device and upon looking into the diodes, I noticed something odd. Even though they are all marked the same, the flower like symbol and "MG", the values on the multimeter vary quite a bit between the diodes. Also, even if the...
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EF: Extending ring final - any potential gotchas?
Extending ring final - any potential gotchas? Hello again, been a while. I'm wanting to extend a ring final and I'm at the 1st fix stage as part of some building work to open up our ground floor. Following demolition, a 2 gang socket is redundant in place, so my plan is to extend the ring and...
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TT or PME Just been to look at a job and found this. It's an overhead supply so could be pme at the post but no earth back to the cutout and (although admittedly i didn't have much time to have a proper look) I didn't spot a rod. I'm thinking advise the customer to get the dno to come and...
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EF: What's My Next Big Move? Help Me Decide!
What's My Next Big Move? Help Me Decide! Hi everyone, I’m looking for a bit of advice as to what courses to take to become fully qualified (having been out of the trade for around 14 years). From 2000 – 2010 I worked in the electrical trade, so I have a decade or so of experience. In 2005...
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EF: Ajax Smoke Alarms
Ajax Smoke Alarms Hi all, We’ve been doing several Part 6 jobs regularly, and I just came across ajax mains powered alarms: FireProtect 2 receives BSI Kitemark Certification | Blog Ajax - https://ajax.systems/blog/fireprotect-2-receives-bsi-certification/. They’re claiming full compliance...
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Board to summer house Hi guys, so I’ve just installed a new board into a summer house. I was wondering do i just do a eic for the install and an eic for the new board? Or do I have to test eicr the whole of the old board? Board to summer house to Continue reading... ElectriciansForums.net...
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EF: Kitchen sockets not working anymore
Kitchen sockets not working anymore Hi, I was wondering if someone may be able to assist please. Recently all the kitchen wall sockets have stopped working so no power in the sockets except the oven but the oven has its own dedicated circuit breaker in fuse box. The kitchen sockets also has...
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EF: Average price for an EICR? Another poll! Please read post before voting.
Average price for an EICR? Another poll! Please read post before voting. I'm going a bit poll crazy at the moment. I love polls! This one is just a bit of fun. It's obviously very inaccurate and there will be many variations on price, but... Lets just ask 'What price would you charge for an...
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EF: just need this to pass the nvq
just need this to pass the nvq nvq Incorrect phase rotation i do understand this just need to get some pictures of me is there any electricians based Wickford or Basildon Essex who could possibly help me with this i need to have pictures of me fault finding with phase tester pictures showing...
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EF: Easy cert users ive been thinking!
Easy cert users ive been thinking! Hello all easy cert users, ive been using easy cert since 2001 with no yearly subscription. and also found other people looking for older versions of easy cert. Ive emailed brian at support and they do not give out or keep old versions of the software. but it...
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EF: Ballast for low pressure sodium street light bulbs
Ballast for low pressure sodium street light bulbs I have a customer that had an older street light with a 30W Phillips Sox bulb in in. It's an absolute pain to get to as it's mounted on a building very high with obstacles preventing easy ladder access and steps / ramps at ground level all...
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EF: Megger 1720 probe socket assembly replacement
Megger 1720 probe socket assembly replacement Hi I wondered if anyone knows where I can get a replacement probe socket assembly for a Megger 1720. One of the test lead pins has snapped off and I can't get it out 😪 Thanks Megger 1720 probe socket assembly replacement to Continue reading...
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EF: Issues with megger mft1720
Issues with megger mft1720 Hi I've got a megger mft 1720 that I was hoping any one can shed any light on When performing continuity tests (even when nulling the leads) and earth loop tests I seem to get higher readings than normal. After a while of testing the tester seems to settle...
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