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
Posted in: Electrics
Tags: Safety, Workshop Supply
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
Posted in: Electrics
Tags: No Voltage Release, NVR, NVR Switch, Safety, Undervoltage trigger, Workshop Supply
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
Posted in: Electrics
Tags: Trench, Turf, Underground Cable, Workshop Supply
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
Posted in: Electrics
Tags: Spade, SWA, Trench, Underground Cable, Workshop Supply
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)
Posted in: Electrics, Shed
Tags: Burried Cables, SWA, Underground Cable, Workshop, Workshop Supply
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
