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A friend and I were volunteering the other day, fixing some sewing machines for a charity. We were checking three machines that had been PAT* tested earlier the same day. We saw that one of the pedal controllers had exposed cores coming out of the plug. So we opened another plug and found that it had a 13 A fuse (for a 90W appliance.) The third was OK with a non-rewireable plug ...

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Hi, I had this extractor fan removed few years ago (stupid i know), and now im reinstalling it. Problem is the wiring... Ive installed a isolation switch and brought 5mm t&e up to the fan and another up to the wago connector blocks. Do I just connect the neutral to the blue/black wire connector, and the brown to the wago with the other Brown wire, guessing thats the switch ...

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Hey everyone, Talk Electrician UK is now available inside the Gather app, and we'd love a handful of members to help us test it. Best part: you don't need to create a brand-new forum account. Just sign up / log in using the same email address you use on Talk Electrician UK and it should link automatically. Download Gather: iPhone (iOS):

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Hey gang do you all ever run across old 240V three phase equipment? What kind of transformers do you use 400 delta to 240 star? Say going from a 400/230 system and creating a 240/139 three phase system. If your connecting say a 10kVA 400V:240V transformer to run a piece of equipment do you always bond PE at the transformer, or do you ever bond to PE at the first circuit breaker?...

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