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Ensuring installations are fully compliant | Marshall-Tufflex

|Date: 5 March, 2020

Ensuring installations are fully compliant | Marshall-Tufflex

Ensuring that cable management installations are fully compliant goes beyond a product’s size and compart ...

Ensuring that cable management installations are fully compliant goes beyond a product’s size and compartments. Here, Nick Hayler, Technical and Product QA Manager at Marshall-Tufflex discusses what s ...

5 March, 2020
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Temporary electrical installations on construction and demolition sites

|Date: 27 February, 2020

Temporary electrical installations on construction and demolition sites

NAPIT’s Don Holmes offers clarification and advice for contractors. Every year, the use of electricity on ...

NAPIT’s Don Holmes offers clarification and advice for contractors. Every year, the use of electricity on construction sites results in accidents from electric shock and burns which can be serious or ...

27 February, 2020
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Ask the expert: Design an MVHR system

|Date: 26 February, 2020

Ask the expert: Design an MVHR system

There is now a growing demand for whole house ventilation systems with Mechanical Ventilation with Heat R ...

There is now a growing demand for whole house ventilation systems with Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR). Christian Rehn, National Design & Project Manager at National Ventilation, ...

26 February, 2020
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EV Installation Guide – ABB Terra DC Wallbox

|Date: 25 February, 2020

EV Installation Guide – ABB Terra DC Wallbox

The team at ABB talk us through how to install an ABB Terra DC Wallbox. Preparing the site The first job ...

The team at ABB talk us through how to install an ABB Terra DC Wallbox. Preparing the site The first job in any project is planning and preparation of the site. That starts with a site visit to confir ...

25 February, 2020
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Automatic disconnection of supply

|Date: 24 February, 2020

Automatic disconnection of supply

The team at the NICEIC offer their advice. This article discusses the protective measure Automatic discon ...

The team at the NICEIC offer their advice. This article discusses the protective measure Automatic disconnection of supply (ADS), typically used in most electrical installations as a means of providin ...

24 February, 2020
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Made 2 Measure: Industrial testing work and motors

|Date: 20 February, 2020

Made 2 Measure: Industrial testing work and motors

The Megger team answer your questions about motors. You ask: I’ve recently started doing some industrial ...

The Megger team answer your questions about motors. You ask: I’ve recently started doing some industrial testing work. I can manage pretty well with my existing test kit, but motors are a bit of a pro ...

20 February, 2020
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EV Charging: What does the amendment mean?

|Date: 17 February, 2020

EV Charging: What does the amendment mean?

ECA’s Energy and Emerging Technologies Solutions Advisor, Luke Osborne looks at what to expect in the upc ...

ECA’s Energy and Emerging Technologies Solutions Advisor, Luke Osborne looks at what to expect in the upcoming Amendment to BS 7671:2018. Amendment 1 is solely focused on section 722: electrical vehic ...

17 February, 2020
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Napit Codebreakers #14

|Date: 13 February, 2020

Napit Codebreakers #14

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 ...

13 February, 2020
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Determining Zs for a lighting circuit

|Date: 3 February, 2020

Determining Zs for a lighting circuit

The team at NICEIC offer their technical support. The aim of this article is to explain why it is necessa ...

The team at NICEIC offer their technical support. The aim of this article is to explain why it is necessary to determine the value of earth fault loop impedance, and considers the different options av ...

3 February, 2020
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Back to the future: what happens if an existing installation doesn’t comply with the latest regulations?

|Date: 31 January, 2020

Back to the future: what happens if an existing installation doesn’t comply with the latest regulations?

Bill Allan offers advice on dealing with scenarios where a previous installation may comply with an earli ...

Bill Allan offers advice on dealing with scenarios where a previous installation may comply with an earlier version of BS 7671, but not the current edition. When carrying out an Electrical Installati ...

31 January, 2020
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