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I make no claim to be an expert electrician, merely a practising one, so be aware that I might demonstrate my ineptitude. Feel free to politely pick me up on mistakes as I value good feedback. I have years of experience in the field and my qualifications are listed on my website, but I don't claim to know all there is to know about the IET Wiring Regulations and anyone who does is probably not the kind of person you'd want to go down the pub with.
i too was upset, just settling down with a bottle of lambrini and a box of the finest mansize tissues, excellent i thought something from davids full on smut collection. deeply annoyed to find two electricians going about some technical investigation. tsk.... had to get the city electrical monthly newsletter out instead 🤪
The Dobbie McInnes engine indicator. I used one of these at Tec back at the begining of the 1980's. You connect the pressure port to the engine cylinder and the pressure drives a stylus up and down. You connect a cord to the engine connecting rod and that pulls the cylinder on the indicator round, against a return spring. The stylus scratches through a white layer on the indicator chart that is wrapped around the cylinder on the Indicator. The stylus then plots the engine cylinder pressure Vs crank position. When you have the indicator diagram you can use it to work out things like burn rate, brake mean effective pressure and gas exchange processes. Very old technology, originally designed for use on steam engines but, upto the 1980's still used on large engines (big, marine diesels). Since about 1985 the job has been done with Piezo transducers, optical shaft encoders, high speed data acquisition units and a shed load of computer processing. Same results but easier and faster to get. The downside is that it now takes £100k worth of kit (not including the cost of the engine testbed).
@@dsesuk the hardest part, when we used it on a small, single cylinder, Loughborough Gas Engine, was hooking the string onto the moving connecting rod. It took a bit of getting used to having to move both arms left to right at the same time whilst bringing them together to hook the two ends together. The other piece of really clever kit was a pantagraph arrangement with two thimble wheels on it. You positioned the fixed end of the pantograph on the origin of the indicator diagram and traced round the line left by the stylus. Once you'd traced the whole line you read of the numbers on the thimble wheels, multiplied them together, and got tge area enclosed by the line. I think the device was called a mechanical integrator. Invented by some fiendishly clever soul, like they did back then.
The meter fitted on the 15-01-1999 was indeed a reconditioned meter the start readings on the card verify this as there is already 22605 units on the low register and 07609 on the normal register. We were still reconditioning meters from the probably until digital meters came in round 1990.
Your inclusion of Wohler inspection kit reminded me of my Colonoscopy, except afterwards I was given a slice of toast and a cup of tea by a very attractive Filipino nurse.
Scottish Power were doing the same with us. We finally got the smart meter fitted last year because of the pending teleswitch shut-down. If your keeping the storage heaters make sure they put a meter with the off peak terminal or a contactor or your heaters end up on all day or not working at all if the meter fitter doesn't realise.
Another interesting video you guys, and Linda... Nice little hobby room going in there, should be good. Ow and yer i agree with David on the view.. thats a cracking Lady Garden.
Crikey, Fultons must have got about a bit. Until retirement and buyout 7 years ago, they were one of the 'trusted' local medium-sized players based a mile from me
11:00 isn't there an argument that because the single-insulated cables are in an enclosure (the meter box) requiring a "tool" to open, they're OK? I'm not a big fan, because obviously unskilled people are meant to open the enclosure to read the meter etc, but from a regs point of view are you sure it's actually a no-no?
Hm.. I guess one could make that argument if push came to shove although, as you say, access is required for the unwary. It's also in a communal space rather than within the security of the property and can be opened by anyone with a common key. It's not how I would do it.
Thing is, even if there were such a reg, it wouldn't stop DIY'ers and iffy builders/fitters who ignore much of what the regs say anyway. It would just make things more awkward and expensive for those of us who try to follow the rules.
Electrical archeology is always interesting and is good for teaching younger electricians about the development of electrical installation and its wiring and accessories.
Due to almost all of the northern isles of Scotland being storage and a lot of the Highlands the satellite switch end date will be continually kicked down the road as nobody will pay to change the heating system.
For an installation that used to have storage heaters on Economy 7 where they've been removed and the sockets moved over to the "normal" CU, is The RadioTeleSwitch (RTS) still required?
No, the RTS would be redundant. Those who don't want a smart meter can move their off-peak circuits to the peak board and apply Eco7 as a tariff applicable to the installation as a whole. This was how my installation worked - I paid peak pricing for 17 hours on all my circuits, off-peak for seven hours on all my circuits; the switchover being applied as a tariff rather than on physical hardware.
David tell Linda to look at new provider! had a shite load of hassle from s power, tried to charge me £1000 BACK USEAGE but i wasnt even in this house then. Still keep getting letters from them saying i owe it. Took photo date stamped when i moved in but they say its not their fault! ars3holes
Unless I'm missing something, singles are only compliant today if run through the same containment, otherwise you have live wiring with no accompanying CPC and rogue electric fields. Where and how are you using them??
We use double insulated singles with or without a combined cpc. For lighting within schools, usually installed within cable basket and surface Mount pvc conduit. Each point on the circuit will be assured to have a cpc via the combined brown with cpc, you can also get blue with earth. The cable is called 6241Y
@@tomorichard Ah, I see. Sorry, I meant singles aren't compliant in this format - i.e., no CPC and buried in walls at less than 50mm. It was more the installation method than the cable that was the problem.
Hiya SAVO... I've got a list of 'Sparky prices' around the UK. Its a summary of several national surveys. Tells you who is charging what, by the hour, and per job etc. I offered it SAM (Fat) and sent it (email) to YOU already, but blanko blanko..! So.. do you want it.. and shall I send it to you.. again.. Cheers.. Oh.. and great Vid as always.. loved it...
#1 Linda is a legend. Love seeing her on the channel #2 It is interesting, you keep saying that, then you say that nobody else will find it interesting. We all do! #3 Around 30 mins in you cut a single that may or may not be a current carrying neutral. You could have used a clamp meter to determine if it was or wasn't. #4 Love the videos.
It is a very good job that the whole list of invitees/ to the Manor House party were a load of "Pissheads" were and you faded into the ether. I take it the Lady of the Manor let you stay in the servants quaters? Apart from that nonsense David, you showed how to approach "a crcock of sh1T"..... I have the Depstech so not wishing to burst your ad bubble, it is really good foir what you did. I love this DSES vlogging BTW. Keep it up ,....if you can!
Spot on about the radio teleswitch, There's going to be a mad rush to change all these out. It doesn't affect all 2 rate meters though, some are controlled by a mechanical clock instead. And of course some others are all digital.
That had to be either an old AutoTrader or Exchange & Mart stuffed in the wall as they were available in all good (and dodgy) newsagents every Thursday
That's true for builders knocking in extensions and thinking they can do the wiring themselves, but new builds are usually to a costed plan, and not one that involves the expense and fiddliness of putting in junctions. Badly terminated screw boxes like these smell more of DIY than being part of the original wiring design.
