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Scotmod last won the day on January 23 2014

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  1. My last post on this forum was nearly 5 years ago. I have came out of retirement to tell you this... I down-voted your last post.
  2. Whats cheaper these days? 8-core or underlay?
  3. I wouldn't expect and engineer to be able to run Cash/Mentor or whatever systems are in place. Any basics of the industry could be learnt in a weekend so it shouldn't be a big hurdle. Look at it this way. The engineer/wholesaler/customer/accountant etc all have their own plates filled with their information and whats important to them. The managers job is to keep them all spinning. Sometimes it goes belly up but hey ho.
  4. Don't forget some polka dot stickers.
  5. Do you know what commissioning involves for fire?
  6. Sounds like you could use an RCD or two... My interpretation is that back boxes should be earthed. But they aren't an extraneous conductive part so you could the toss. But to be fair, if you were worried about toddlers touching it, why wouldn't you at least kill the power before going anywhere near it. Like you said, you don't know what's behind that socket.
  7. I enjoy listening to radio 4 and watching the documentaries etc so I pay it. If you can afford sky/virgin you can afford the telly license.
  8. I could say a few but depends what hes actually acquiring. You should come to the east coast Matt, We'd love to have you.
  9. I'm sorry but you don't know what you're talking about. You can get an 8 zone conventional panel for under £200 RETAIL, including VAT. That is cheap, dirt cheap for joe bloggs. You could probably get all of the work done for under £2000. Maybe even under £1500. Over the ten year minimum you would get out of your system it works out at about what? £20 a month? Over various tenants and shops that works out to nothing for a fully functional system.
  10. I think the best thing i've found on a job was in the attic of an old library. Installing void detection and went through a crawling gap in the eaves to the next roof and found a couple of newspapers from the 50's, couple of old tins of pop and some fag packs and matches. Had a flick through the pristine papers and took them down for the mini museum they had. Was pretty funny to think that the only thing changes is technology. People will still bunk off for 5 minutes and have a snooze.
  11. Only thing you'd have to watch out for is it being used as an argument tool. "Well I installed it as it said in this book and i'm right" "Is it an approved book?" "Nope but it's written by someone who knows what they are talking about" However i'd certainly buy one.
  12. As I stated in my other thread I believe 5839 is wrong on this issue and it hasn't been thought through by the people writing the standard. In James first post i'll just highlight what is wrong and why. I am of the personal belief that fire alarm cables can be ran along side mains with no issues what so ever. I have ran this idea past many tradesmen, technicians and manufacturers and not one has yet to disagree other than "regulations say so" 5839 is a good practice guide for the installation of an electrical circuit. Nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't have different characteristics and doesn't behave any differently from any other type of circuit and should be treated exactly the same in terms of use, protection and segregation. What is stipulated in 5839 is GREY at the best of times and to me, is just plain old best practice. We all know best practice is what we strive towards and work with but it's not always achievable. The situations that i'm referring to when I say that 5839 is when there is no segregation available, the situation is too awkward to provide it or you have the chance to save yourself some money and hours. I understand that if you work in this way it's not to best practice and requires a variation. Which in itself is silly because you can do anything you want to a fire alarm as long as you pass on the responsibility so hey, who cares? But 5839 is too grey to be considered a concrete technical document. If they don't want people to interpret and implement then they need to remove the factors that allow it in the first place. In my opinion a solid technical idea should be used over best practice. The inspectorate would rather you spend time and money and have everything done to the letter of the law because at the end of the day it's not their time, nor their profit that they are pissing down the drain. They get to come at the end of the job, when all the hard work and swearing has been done and then pick things off.
  13. Because oxo in the space of an hour you went from telling the guy that it would be welcome to then put up or shut up. The guy has been nice enough to take the time and reply. He's clearly passionate about it otherwise why bother signing up here to defend his kit. It's not like he's claiming it to do things it can't. Then again it raises the big old question of who gives a monkeys what grade it is. If it works it works. They would have more customers if they advertised a bit more and lowered their prices. How many diyers would buy it knowing all they had to do was stick it on the wall? Granted it doesn't look like much but then again I like the look of Pyronix kit and think Risco looks like it was done on a napkin on someone's tea break. If ADT has taught us anything over the last year or two it's that grading means nothing. Nice looking kit that does the job sells. Customers don't know what grading is and they don't care. I
  14. How does your comms work on this with the Sim card then? Can I just pop in an 02 prepaid card and let it work away? Stop being so bloody rude. Honestly.
  15. If you want the defaults post in trade. If they've been changed you'll need some jiggery pokery.
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