Recent content by Adam_151

No, you need an intermediate switch

Yes, You want to connect all the three reds together, but to nothing on your light fitting. So you'll need a piece of connector block, or a wago, etc The Black on its own to left side of the image, is the switch wire and wants identifying with red or brown sleeve and goes to live on your...

I've never come across anything that suggests that white vs. grey pvc twin has different lifespans from one another. Since colours were harmonised with the EU (2004), white twin is always LSF and grey PVC, before then, there was no scheme to it and PVC was available in both colours. Up here in...

Nothing wrong with your plan to use a metal clad accessory, however I'm not so sure that the standard unswitched spur, ideally something like this would be better https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/507112-13a-dp-key-operated-fused-spur-with-neon-metal-clad The problem with standard spurs...

Sometimes its not perfect but as long as cables are not in danger of being crushed against metal parts and creating a fault then its fine :) SOmetimes if you are struggling one handed with connecting the fitting and dressing eveyrthing into it, you can use a scrap bit of cable through one of...

There ins't really anyway to create more room, other than to either as suggested put the connections in a joint box in the ceiling (which can be a little bit of a nuisence if you need to fault find at some point and someone has put half a lorry load of rockwool on top) or cutting a circular...

They do exist, generally refered to as single pole-switched neutral (SPSN). Its much more common in RCBOs than MCBs, with many makes of the 'compact' MCBs such as Wylex, Fusebox and Niglon being SPSN, but often erroniously refered to as 'Double Pole' even sometimes on the manufacturers marketing...

Sum is used to find the sum of figures in a given range of cells with the references of the diagonal corners separated by a colon, e.g. =Sum(A1:A10) or =Sum(A1:B:10) or Sum=($A$1:C10) for example. It seemed to make no sense in your example, so I opened excel and tried a few things, and it seems...

That looks like MEM SPECTRA to me probably 20-25 years old, its been discontinued, it looks like these people have new old stock 3 gang cover plates for it: https://www.radwell.co.uk/Buy/EATON%20CORPORATION/MEM/M803 at a slight premium, but TBH changing the whole grid arrangement is not going to...

And personally, I wouldn't try and get three earths and two neutrals into that cheapo connector block thats fixed close to the edge, while holding it close to the ceiling and being constrained by the length of the cables from the ceiling (which admittedly in your case in not too bad) I'd fit...

If clipping the cables to the masonary behind keeps them clear of the insulation, and running them through the studs would not, then the former is the thing to do. As to plasterboard boxes on insulated plasterboard, you'll find you'd struggle to open the clips, youd have to hack out the...

Can we have a picture?

From here: https://www.lampshoponline.com/series-starter-4-22w.html I'm assuming his flyzapper has two tubes because what he has certainly appears to be a series starter and the part code FLS-2 would seem to suggest its an FS2 type as would the wattage of 4-22w which they all seem to be...

Because the plug is rated at 16A... same as if you put a UK plug on, it'll say 13A...