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Residential Buildings: How To Choose The Correct Smoke Ventilation Systems

|Date: 21 August, 2018

Residential Buildings: How To Choose The Correct Smoke Ventilation Systems

In this simple step-by-step guide, Dan Foster from Be Safe Direct explains the key factors for choosing t ...

In this simple step-by-step guide, Dan Foster from Be Safe Direct explains the key factors for choosing the correct smoke ventilation system for a residential building. When specifying and installing ...

21 August, 2018
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Periodic Inspection and Testing: Part 2

|Date: 10 August, 2018

Periodic Inspection and Testing: Part 2

The experts at Stroma Certification are back with the second part of this best practice advice col ...

The experts at Stroma Certification are back with the second part of this best practice advice column. In the previous article of this technical guidance series we looked at the objective of pe ...

10 August, 2018
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Additions or Alterations – When/Where Are You Allowed To Make Them?

|Date: 1 August, 2018

Additions or Alterations – When/Where Are You Allowed To Make Them?

Compliance advice from the experts at NICEIC. Most domestic electrical installations will require one or ...

Compliance advice from the experts at NICEIC. Most domestic electrical installations will require one or more additions or alterations during their lifetime. Where such work is proposed, it is importa ...

1 August, 2018
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Getting Real about Fake Goods

|Date: 27 July, 2018

Getting Real about Fake Goods

NAPIT’s Bill Allan uses this month’s column to raise awareness of the problems associated with counterfei ...

NAPIT’s Bill Allan uses this month’s column to raise awareness of the problems associated with counterfeit products. The spectre of counterfeit electrical products has gate crashed into the consciousn ...

27 July, 2018
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Loop Impedance Testing: Have We Seen The End of Uplift?

|Date: 25 July, 2018

Loop Impedance Testing: Have We Seen The End of Uplift?

An uplifting experience is generally considered to be something positive, but not when it comes to loop i ...

An uplifting experience is generally considered to be something positive, but not when it comes to loop impedance testing. But what exactly is uplift, why is it a problem, and what can be done about i ...

25 July, 2018
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Made 2 Measure: Varying Earth Loop Impedance Test Results

|Date: 23 July, 2018

Made 2 Measure: Varying Earth Loop Impedance Test Results

You ask: I’ve noticed that if I repeat an earth loop impedance test several times on the same circuit, th ...

You ask: I’ve noticed that if I repeat an earth loop impedance test several times on the same circuit, the results sometimes vary a lot. Why is this and how do I decide which of the results to record ...

23 July, 2018
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Summer Garden Tips: How To Power The Patio

|Date: 20 July, 2018

Summer Garden Tips: How To Power The Patio

The team at Hamilton Litestat look at the ways that you can bring power and wireless control to your cust ...

The team at Hamilton Litestat look at the ways that you can bring power and wireless control to your customers’ great outdoors. As summer approaches, the homeowner’s focus shifts from the inside to th ...

20 July, 2018
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Distribution Circuits – What Are They And How Do You Record Details?

|Date: 16 July, 2018

Distribution Circuits – What Are They And How Do You Record Details?

The team at ELECSA look at what a distribution circuit is and the recording of circuit details. A distrib ...

The team at ELECSA look at what a distribution circuit is and the recording of circuit details. A distribution circuit is a circuit that supplies a distribution board or other switchgear and does not ...

16 July, 2018
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Periodic Inspection and Testing: What Are The Key Principles?

|Date: 13 July, 2018

Periodic Inspection and Testing: What Are The Key Principles?

Stroma Certification sets out the principles for the periodic inspection and testing of electrical instal ...

Stroma Certification sets out the principles for the periodic inspection and testing of electrical installations to enable contractors to verify standards and ensure statutory requirements are being c ...

13 July, 2018
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Prospective Fault Current: How To Determine Values

|Date: 8 July, 2018

Prospective Fault Current: How To Determine Values

The experts at NICEIC provide us with more critical best practice advice. Either by enquiry, measurement ...

The experts at NICEIC provide us with more critical best practice advice. Either by enquiry, measurement or calculation, prospective fault current (Ipf) should be determined at every relevant point wi ...

8 July, 2018
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