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What is neutral current diversion (NCD) and where is it most likely to occur?

|Date: 11 June, 2025

What is neutral current diversion (NCD) and where is it most likely to occur?

What is neutral current diversion (NCD) and where is it most likely to occur? This article, delivered col ...

What is neutral current diversion (NCD) and where is it most likely to occur? This article, delivered collectively by some of the industry’s leading authorities, aims to provide some of the answers. N ...

11 June, 2025
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How to ensure tenant safety and legal adherence with the PRS electrical safety check requirements

|Date: 10 June, 2025

How to ensure tenant safety and legal adherence with the PRS electrical safety check requirements

As the 2025 deadline for electrical safety checks in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) fast approaches, Fra ...

As the 2025 deadline for electrical safety checks in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) fast approaches, Frank Bertie, Managing Director at NAPIT, outlines the key responsibilities to ensure tenant safet ...

10 June, 2025
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Discussing the concept of parasitic capacitance in solar PV installations

|Date: 28 May, 2025

Discussing the concept of parasitic capacitance in solar PV installations

Steve Humphreys, Technical Commercial Manager at NAPIT, discusses the concept of parasitic capacitance in ...

Steve Humphreys, Technical Commercial Manager at NAPIT, discusses the concept of parasitic capacitance in solar PV installations. Parasitic capacitance might not be a term most electricians know or ha ...

28 May, 2025
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Codebreakers #98

|Date: 27 May, 2025

Codebreakers #98

Need help with cracking those EICR codes? The technical team at NAPIT, with the help of the 18th Edition ...

Need help with cracking those EICR codes? The technical team at NAPIT, with the help of the 18th Edition Codebreakers publication, answer your latest coding queries. Click on the photos for a closer l ...

27 May, 2025
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Made 2 Measure: Can you recommend a tester that can reliably prove that circuits are dead before starting work on them?

|Date: 26 May, 2025

Made 2 Measure: Can you recommend a tester that can reliably prove that circuits are dead before starting work on them?

Working on your own? Need some technical advice? Don’t know where to turn? The technical team at Megger a ...

Working on your own? Need some technical advice? Don’t know where to turn? The technical team at Megger answers the latest technical query from end users. YOU ASK: I WANT A ROBUST AND COMPACT TESTER T ...

26 May, 2025
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Coordinated overvoltage protection of domestic properties

|Date: 21 May, 2025

Coordinated overvoltage protection of domestic properties

This article from the experts at NICEIC looks at the factors to be considered when providing protection a ...

This article from the experts at NICEIC looks at the factors to be considered when providing protection against overvoltage in a domestic premises having a service fuse of rating not exceeding 100 A p ...

21 May, 2025
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Ask Ovia: What CCT do you recommend for health care environments?

|Date: 16 May, 2025

Ask Ovia: What CCT do you recommend for health care environments?

The column where you get to put your lighting questions to the head of the Ovia lighting business, Mike C ...

The column where you get to put your lighting questions to the head of the Ovia lighting business, Mike Collins, and his team of technical experts. Q. WHAT CCT DO YOU RECOMMEND FOR HEALTH CARE ENVIRON ...

16 May, 2025
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The selection and use of ventilation equipment

|Date: 14 May, 2025

The selection and use of ventilation equipment

The team at Envirovent advises on the considerations professionals need to make when sourcing appropriate ...

The team at Envirovent advises on the considerations professionals need to make when sourcing appropriate ventilation equipment for the application/environment in question. There have been significant ...

14 May, 2025
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NICEIC FAQs: NICEIC answer key questions from the industry

|Date: 12 May, 2025

NICEIC FAQs: NICEIC answer key questions from the industry

In every other edition, the NICEIC's team of expert technical engineers will address crucial questions th ...

In every other edition, the NICEIC's team of expert technical engineers will address crucial questions they've received. Here are some of the most recent enquiries. Q. For compliance with BS 7671, can ...

12 May, 2025
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How to ensure you are carrying out Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) correctly

|Date: 8 May, 2025

How to ensure you are carrying out Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) correctly

Steve Dunning, Managing Director of Martindale Electric, advises on how to ensure you are carrying out Po ...

Steve Dunning, Managing Director of Martindale Electric, advises on how to ensure you are carrying out Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) correctly. Every year, a significant number of electrical accide ...

8 May, 2025
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