Electrical Advice

Hi, my Dad has a two way switch which has a light in the hallway and a light on the landing, the other night I heard a dull bell sound and all the lights went off. The rcd tripped and now the light in the hallway is not working, upstairs switch and downstairs switch won't turn on the hallway light. The light on the landing works with both switches the upstairs and downstair switches. I know it's a big ask and I don't have anymore information as it's in my Dad's house and I can't get down to...

 

This is in the level 3 science material handout. I know how a contactor work and asked my tutor what the link is, he looked at it and said he doesn’t know. Can someone please explain what it is please.

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I mentioned this a while back as a thread on another forum which has 3k+ posts, it may work here it may not so let's see. Someone puts up a song with a link from YouTube and the next puts up another using one word from the previous song title and so on, for example;
Name Of The Game - ABBA followed by Swords "Of" A Thousand Men - Tenpole Tudor, hope that's clear so I will start.
Into The Valley - The Skids (someone now uses Into, The or Valley in their title).
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Thought I'd start a thread and get our resident eurovision superfan help us all understand the entries and things. @littlespark

(Excuse me if there is one already, close this and move the other thread to here for me)

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The forum should look like this.

(Or similar)

If the forum is colourless, please scroll all the way down to the bottom of the forum and there's a tiny paint brush on the left. Use that to change the style, try a couple, one or two should work.

Still getting the odd report about this via email and PM.

Will setup a notice.

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Anyone notice? Not the best photo but quite a spectacular sight.

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Alright I can't find the other one. So made a new one.

Been watching 3 body problem on netflix and its right up my street. Fictional space related thing.

I'm half way through and it's mint. No spoilers please (at a guess, everybody dies lol).

Any other suggestions?

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Just linking us to it.

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Just gauging the collective intelligence here on perils and pitfalls of renovating a possible house my middle daughter (19yp) wants to buy with her own money. She pays the bills, daddy does all the donkey work.

The market around here is slow at this time, so there’s not a huge choice of properties in driving distance to both our house, and her place of work.

I’ll show you all what we viewed last Friday… and possible plans...

 

As in the title 🙂

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View: https://youtu.be/P1hOAtnjO0M?si=6ZttEG19QdNgTylt

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Seasons greetings to you and yours.

Come on then, show us what you got from Old St Nick…..

I’ll post mine later…. Still building it!

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I've been tracking Santa on Flightradar24 and on the Norad sight. The thing that's confusing me is they are showing him in different places. How?

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I've had a tiny problem with little spots of black mould around my bath. The guys who fitted out the bathroom were ----.
Cheap Silicon sealer will always yellow, and black spots are always a hassle.
I intended to redo it all, but time passes by...suddenly, I have a couple of visitors coming to stay, so I set about stripping out all the old sealant and applying new stuff.
No...I cheated!
It took me less than 5 minutes, it lasts a couple of months...
Life's too short guys and girls...

 

Let’s try and lighten the mood a bit. Please add your favourite quotes.

Must add whom orginally said it.

“Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosy does not try it on as a hat”

Billy Connolly.

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Not everyone’s cup of tea, but as you see from my profile, I like a bit of science fiction and Lego.... so I’m starting a thread. One official Lego set from my collection per day... should take about 6 months!


In no particular order.... I’ll start with a recent eBay purchase. Missing a few very small parts, but I’ll get them replaced soon enough.

Set 21306, starring John, Paul, George and Ringo..... and Jeremy...

 

I mentioned it a couple of times on other threads, and will link to here from those....

I found this diagram on t'internet showing how my roof has been constructed... closest anyway.

In my situation, the cavity wall on the left there has been removed, with a steel beam holding it up. Modern timber frame house with external rendered brick.

Our lead flashing isnt chased into the render.... fixed with a timber beam...

 

Just loading a film into one of my cameras and came across some of my father's old stuff.
A metal self loading cassette with a label saying what it is loaded with and an unused Kodachrome film with it's metal can. The film in those days was bought process paid I wonder if Kodak will still process it for me?

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Just had a email from E-on to say my yearly bill is going up £81 from £103 - £184.
Now this has got me wondering how they can justify this ---

Firstly it is for a spare feeder pillar in a field that uses 0 kWh per year , so the increase from 19p to 29p per kWh should not effect the end bill.
Added to that , even if It was using power , they make a big song and dance about only supplying 100% renewable , so how does the cost of oil suddenly make this more expensive to produce !???

Then the...