Workshop Electrics Basics

After a few comments from various readers about the complexity of my previous thoughts on workshop electrics I agreed to write an article for the shed blog for the readersheds National Shed Week. The article gets back to the basics
No Voltage

A local powercut launched a discussion about what would happen if I’d been machining something in the workshop whilst that happened. Well if it had been dark it might have been a little scary whilst all the equipment powered down
Life after trench

Lots of people are moaning about the wet weather, I’m not one of them. Thanks to a lovely combination alternating heavy rain and sun the lawn is almost back to normal. Following the digging of the trench for the workshop
Trench for Workshop Electrics

After a few days of rain and a quote from an electrician to get me wired up I decided it was a good time to dig the trench for the cable to power the workshop.A line was roughly laid out
Workshop Electrics
The changes to the UK electrical regulations made in 2005 are designed to reduce the number of people electrocuted by their own incompetent wiring and to eliminate cowboy electricians. The “part p” regulations basically specify that a competent person (electrician)