On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 23:13:51 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:



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news On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:01:48 +0100, Rod Speed

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On 21:52 26 Oct 2016, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:25:49 +0100, Mr Pounder Esquire
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David Lang wrote:
On 26/10/2016 17:22, Simon Mason wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 October 2016 09:29:44 UTC+1, Rod Speed
wrote: Its actually because they are much more reliable when
moulded.

I have just fitted 4 LED security lamps and needed to feed
2 core through a brick wall - I have 20 odd old wire up
plugs though so had plenty to hand.

I do it the other way, cut the moulded socket off an
extension lead, feed the cut end thru the hole in the wall
and then wire that into the light or whatever. Easier with
some lights than others.

These lights only come with about 1ft of three way, so you
have to drill a foot long hole in the exterior bricks and
feed two core in from inside, fit a plug and find the nearest
indoor socket.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvtPqEOXYAEybSS.jpg

So you now have an exposed chocky block outside in the wet and
a metal light with no earth?

You are a special kind of stupid.

He is a cyclist. They really are a very special kind of stupid.

Or not a wimp like you two, scared of a bit of electricity.

All that will happen in the rain is a bit of electric will leak
from live to neutral and cost him pennies.

What if it's more than a little bit of leakage (maybe from
something like bird droppings)?

The most that might do is trip the RCD.

RCDs are for pussies, I have fuses.

It might blow a fuse if you are unlucky enough to
get some bird **** that is very sloppy right on the
areas where there is some metal down in the block.

Unlikely tho.

Which is why I prefer fuses. Less likely to trip.

It wouldn't trip due to bird **** regardless of which is used.

And very unlikely to end up with bird **** on it where it is either.

If the bird**** conducted to some rain on the wall and to the ground, an
ELCB might trip.

Nope, because the metal bits on the choc block wouldn't be in contact
with
the bird ****.

You wrote "unlucky enough to
get some bird **** that is very sloppy right on the
areas where there is some metal down in the block"

If it is, it wont bridge between the choc block and the wall.

Depends what the bird has eaten.


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