Wow, brilliant. Thank you so much for this. We couldn’t make elex so I’m so grateful you’ve done this. We’ve been fitting RCBO boards for many years and now type A RCBO’s for some time. Where possible we are guiding customers the prosumer route to prepare for the future. Simple stuff like fitting PV to offset electric vehicle charging or ground/air source heating systems. Utilising DC without converting to AC seems such a sensible route to go particularly with not loosing any power. As a company we looking to move into supply and installation of battery technology. I live near a community that’s off grid and operates entirely in this way - using renewables to then store in batteries (often fork lift truck type ones) to run DC items and/or convert to AC for high power items like washing machines etc. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Just like to say you guys are superb ! It’s finally great to have a non profit organisation to better the knowledge of Electricians / Engineers or the like. It’s quite easy to become complacent and do what you’ve always done but striving for constant improvement doesn’t need to be a chore, it can be a thing of excitement and pride . Be the best you can be for your own peace of mind. Not all sparks think the same some of us do actually want to improve. I recently listened to a podcast which kinda grouped a section of sparks to just fit dual rcd consumer units, I really think they’re old hat, where as rcbo’s are far better for a lot of applications ie; landlords from a maintenance point of view / flats / houses it’s no brainer. Your knowledge on AFDD’s and the difference’s has really opened our eyes as not all of them are designed the same and some have limted functions….it’s so good to know this info ….but yet again manufactures are pushing their products without enough info . Anyway sorry for waffling but thanks for these episodes greatly appreciated, I have them on whilst driving now all the time .
Great information as always gents! I particularly like the section about the future of our consumer units and testing procedures. The industrial process industry have been retrofitting touchscreen HMI's to MCC's and PCC's to tell operators why, when and how systems are failing. It makes sense that domestic consumer units will one day follow suit and make energy monitoring and fault finding a much simpler process. Also, the fact that so much of this new technology is not covered in the standards of the C&G 5357 Apprenticeship is a worry. A standard that was so say put together by leading figures from the electrical and electro-technical training industries. It would be great if you guys could address this problem in the future and how we can possibly lean on the relevant people to reconsider the quality and content of the apprenticeship standard.
I managed to catch your talk at Elex on the Friday and thank you all for your input on this project. Also this video is a great expansion on that talk!
Thank you Gentlemen, very informative & thought provoking. A thought occurred to me ; due to the increased costs of labour,Consumer units etc., rather than reducing the diy folk , will it increase it as lots of people may not be able to afford to use the services of a registered electrician ???
William Martin Culleton it may be sparks end uo just doing the manual cabling and CMS if they don’t start upskilling! But yes it can open up a huge gap in the good and the bad. Thanks for watching we were knackered filming this!
e5 Group I think it is so wonderful the time & energy you all give helping the industry, I only wish you were around when I was an apprentice (6 years then ). So you can guess my age 😂
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Wow, brilliant. Thank you so much for this. We couldn’t make elex so I’m so grateful you’ve done this. We’ve been fitting RCBO boards for many years and now type A RCBO’s for some time. Where possible we are guiding customers the prosumer route to prepare for the future. Simple stuff like fitting PV to offset electric vehicle charging or ground/air source heating systems. Utilising DC without converting to AC seems such a sensible route to go particularly with not loosing any power. As a company we looking to move into supply and installation of battery technology. I live near a community that’s off grid and operates entirely in this way - using renewables to then store in batteries (often fork lift truck type ones) to run DC items and/or convert to AC for high power items like washing machines etc. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Just like to say you guys are superb ! It’s finally great to have a non profit organisation to better the knowledge of Electricians / Engineers or the like.
It’s quite easy to become complacent and do what you’ve always done but striving for constant improvement doesn’t need to be a chore, it can be a thing of excitement and pride .
Be the best you can be for your own peace of mind. Not all sparks think the same some of us do actually want to improve.
I recently listened to a podcast which kinda grouped a section of sparks to just fit dual rcd consumer units, I really think they’re old hat, where as rcbo’s are far better for a lot of applications ie; landlords from a maintenance point of view / flats / houses it’s no brainer.
Your knowledge on AFDD’s and the difference’s has really opened our eyes as not all of them are designed the same and some have limted functions….it’s so good to know this info ….but yet again manufactures are pushing their products without enough info .
Anyway sorry for waffling but thanks for these episodes greatly appreciated, I have them on whilst driving now all the time .
Great information as always gents! I particularly like the section about the future of our consumer units and testing procedures. The industrial process industry have been retrofitting touchscreen HMI's to MCC's and PCC's to tell operators why, when and how systems are failing. It makes sense that domestic consumer units will one day follow suit and make energy monitoring and fault finding a much simpler process.
Also, the fact that so much of this new technology is not covered in the standards of the C&G 5357 Apprenticeship is a worry. A standard that was so say put together by leading figures from the electrical and electro-technical training industries. It would be great if you guys could address this problem in the future and how we can possibly lean on the relevant people to reconsider the quality and content of the apprenticeship standard.
I managed to catch your talk at Elex on the Friday and thank you all for your input on this project. Also this video is a great expansion on that talk!
Jamie.D thank you for watching 👍
Thank you Gentlemen, very informative & thought provoking. A thought occurred to me ; due to the increased costs of labour,Consumer units etc., rather than reducing the diy folk ,
will it increase it as lots of people may not be able to afford to use the services of a registered electrician ???
William Martin Culleton it may be sparks end uo just doing the manual cabling and CMS if they don’t start upskilling!
But yes it can open up a huge gap in the good and the bad.
Thanks for watching we were knackered filming this!
e5 Group I think it is so wonderful the time & energy you all give helping the industry, I only wish you were around when I was an apprentice (6 years then ). So you can guess my age 😂
William Martin Culleton thank you sir 🙏