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Sounds fairly intense tbh! But an interesting potential path. Was your 2365 level 3 enough of a qualification for them?

I don’t quite understand what this means tbh!

Was your 2365 level 3 enough of a qualification for them?

I was CG2360 trained but updating from 16th to current Regs means I'm kosher.

If you've passed part P it still doesn't make much difference until you're paying someone to assess you annually and for that you get to sign off your own work. It's pretty sensible as a system but it does feel like there's always something else the club wants before you're a member.

It just wasn't beneficial enough to me because the few times I run across something that needs to be signed off doesn't cover the hassle of jumping through hoops for a certifying body. If I was younger I'd totally do it though. The money would come if you started doing the stuff only the certified do.

It is buried cable outside.

I don't think anyone would want to advise you just in case. If you know how the cable is earthed and you have proper testing equipment to make sure there is no power then it would be a bad idea to put some wagos on the ends of the cables. Your sparks must have terminated it though? It's not just live lying on the ground and if it's not live it's no use or danger to you.

https://www.cliffuk.co.uk/products/tools/quicktest.htm

Is it to a shed or 'new WFH office'?

You should have the armoured feed terminated into a separate fuse board. Then run into a lighting circuit with proper discrimination and earthing.

Small core armoured cable can't rely on the steel armour to provide an earth return. It still needs a separate CPC for Ze.

The armour is just for physical protection. Then there is now a lot of issues about external earthing that relies on the main house earth.

nice - is it Forbo?

Thanks! And yes. Marmoleum click tiles.

don’t quite understand

This applies to much of the last pages for me but good to know people are passionate about knowing what they’re doing with electrical stuff.

I was kind of hinting at that. In fairness it's a big enough subject to cause me problems and I've passed Installation and Testing and Part P. I was under the impression that the shielding could function as an earth as long as it's within the correct number for the breaker although I've never done it.

The op had been asking about garden lights so they could be wired direct to a circuit in the house couldn't they?

Horrendous. But I’ve used a planer and it seems safer than a table saw to me. Except for the fact perhaps that you can’t easily tell when it’s running.

I used a planer and picked it up before it stopped running. I sliced 3 fingerprints off, lots of blood and lost all sensation in said fingertips for 6 months or so. Luckily it all came back to normal and the fingerprints grew back with virtually no scarring.

Gained a newfound respect/fear for spinny sharp things after that. Don’t use tools when stressed and tired.

They're more dangerous because the blades are attached directly to a heavy flywheel. That accident was unusual because the motor was running when it happened; usually shit goes wrong after the operator hits the off button and the blade is running down. Also worth noting that generally European machines have a different type of guard that does not return automatically - the idea being that as it becomes automatic to return the guard to safe and because it's a process you have to follow you know the machine is returned to a safe state and also once the guard is in place it can't be pushed out of the way accidentally.

It’s lighting recessed into a retaining wall.

I’ve got no doubt the electrician has done it all by the book but I want test the lights without him charging me to come out. I’ll do as was suggested up thread and make myself a little testing rig.

Perfect. Looks just the job thanks.

Are they fairly moppable afterwards? Or not really sealed in that way.

That would be a hand held electric planer. The one we’re talking about here is a shop machine. I’m glad your fingers recovered.

I have no idea comparably, but this just popped up on a blog I follow and enjoyed the vid. The number of lifechanging injuries quoted at the start is rather terrifying...

https://kottke.org/21/02/the-table-saw-that-wont-cut-your-fingers-off

Table saw coming tomorrow... between 6.30am and 8.30am. ON A FUCKING SATURDAY. Animals.

Domestic: the typical householder has no idea what qualifications an Electrician has, nor the range of trade skills needed to do a safe and neat job.
The householder only sees the electrical component on view,
and bases satisfaction upon fairly meaningless aesthetics,
bitd that both screw heads in a newly affixed double socket lined up,
or,
all the debris has been swept up, and disposed of, not just ushered under the floorboards.

Commercial/Industrial, is the conduit/pyro level, are all the screws in the access plates, all the terminals in the Switchboard firmly secured, everything correctly labelled, is it 'Signed off'?

That’s what I assumed! But still wasn’t sure if I had the wrong end of the stick.

If it arrives at 630 I feel bad for your neighbors. You'll have the thing up and running by 7.

both screw heads in a newly affixed double socket lined up

People that care about screwheads and like slotted confuse me. I'd much rather have Torx heads. Although I expect everyone working on them after me would hate it.