I have learnt so much by watching these videos - Really helpful having things I am 90 percent sure on their function and then you giving a clear explanation. You are a top Sparky!

17:32 🤣🤣🤣🤣

NC on the Phase relay is ' Not Connected ' I've been had by that a few times!

Thanks for a realistic and informative video. Most testing videos are boring as F*ck, done by people who have never tested outside of a classroom/clean environment so its nice to have some realism - I work on an AD plant so the point about keeping your nuts out of the sh&t really struck home.

Just make sure if you are just using a few of these in a junction box make sure you position them upside down, otherwise if you don't the gel leaks out & you'll end up with a dry joint.

Hi Jamie....Nice work......Think this old git would have been caught out with this one.....my initial thoughts would have been its a star/ delta . I grabbed my old Telemecanique Book " Practical Aspects of electric motor control " and i see the drawing of a pole changing motor ,never worked on one before......The odd motor i recall working on was a "Schrage Motor" an induction motor with a dc commutator on the end of it i was a third year (1975) and had to rewire it....Never seen another till i was working on some extruders here in Melbourne in the late 80,s..

That night Jamie's phone did not charge due to snapped cores.😆

Makes we wonder how this old clown has managed to reach the age he has?🤔

That first video really bothered me for a log time after I saw it,I tried to find out what became of the guy,it was a oil refinery in Bogota Colombia,some info said he lived and others said he died,imo there's no way he survived,the available fault current on a 13.8kV system (which is what that was)would be ridiculous,he was vaporised RIP that guy,just for context they were racking in a breaker that had been outside in the elements and had moisture in it,SMH tells you everything you need to know right there.😔

Those copper lugs can be a real )*( to drill,they can get grabby so best to not drill if you can.

My 18th edition exam is in 2 weeks so found this video useful. Could you share what pages your tabs are on

Awesome vid. No stuffing around i like it!

Fuck me! Whatcsolar farm have you raided those Emerson inverter parts from?

Windows CE, Jesus. I used to be a systems and network engineer and regularly got call-outs for all kinds of industrial devices that used that horse shit. One of the worst was lifts of all things. When they first came out it Wasn’t unusual to be on a job and to help out a lift engineer with a fooked lift. CE stands for Crashes Easily. 😂

When listening, it sounds like you are telling yourself to focus 🤣

O-O-O-O-O-O 😉😋 Hint: use an angle grinder! 😂 Nice content mate. Cheers.

Jamie looks like you have raided my desk at work

Thanks for these vids. Im a maintenance technician and work on both mechanical and electrical issues but i don't have anywhere near the depth of knowledge of someone who is an experienced spark or car mechanic for example, so these vids are pretty useful. Loads of these components i have worked with and can identify but then theres always something about them that you can explain that i didnt have a clue about like the metal tubes instead of a fuse. Keep them coming!

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If you divide the volts by the resistance, that will give you the amps....Change the amps to KW and check against the motor plate... In this case 400 volts divided by 45 which is about 10amps .... then take 10amps * (400 volts divided by 1000watts) = 4 kw motor. Also, it is worth noting that one test that people don;t do is checking that you are not single phasing the motor. Make sure that you have all 3 phase's at the motor. It is common that a pole will fail across the contactor,. Test at the isolator incoming. Also, check that the motor is not seized.... Undo the fan shroud at the back of the motor and spin it by hand. Lastly, Check the motor plate, 3 phase motors have varied winding configurations like star delta, PWM, delta, delta..... etc

mmm all that lurrvly scrap copper 😜

wot a load of bollox, subscribed :p

Thanks, great video

17:28 the definition of "do what I say, dont do what I do" 😂😂😂

I love fucking around with the big stuff. Great tips and love the honestly. I always get my apprentice to watch these types of videos

Thanks for the video, helped knock off some of the cobwebs. Possibly a video looking at a bad motor in the future?

Have you got the link to those clamps/brackets for the panels? Cheers

Why didn't you start at the new cabinet and work backwards? Could have kept the lugs on. Could have saved cutting precious cable for any future changes. Would have left a 'nest' at the green cabinet but would that have been a real problem? Genuine question.

With the phase conductors going through separate holes isn't this going to give you issues with eddy current heating? Or does the gland plate being ally mitigate that?

serious work done here

Great video, when we do heat shrinking for 33kv joints we always shrink tubes from centre out to work any moisture that may have accidentally got into the tube out to the edges. Just how we were taught thats all. 👍👍

First time viewer and subscriber here. If only I knew about the tip of the constant pressure spring from the jointing kits years ago. Would have saved the copius amounts of insulting tape used and then binned. I like the trigger attachment for the crimper/cutter heads. Will be watching more of the videos and I like the technical term for the trefoil layout. Nice (real life) site work complete with the banter.

i love the electricery bit @1:50 haha

Respect the crimp Excellent video

Shelly em are awesome. Also lots of esphome projects that can port data in realtime to home assistant if you do want data and control over your inverter. But truthfully its all a nice to have.

Hi Jamie, is there anything against using standard short shank lugs on fine stranded cable? ive always been taught that for fine stranded cable you need to use the longer lugs, like the klauke dynamic range. longer shank and more indentations. curious to see what your thoughts are on this

Measure 20 times, cut once 😃 cool stuff

That b’stard music is stuck in my head. Dick 😂

At least the PV fields here in the Netherlands have all that mess inside environ-mental save concrete and steel boxes.

Hi Jamie, I'm sure Tony from Jointech Cabling would be happy with your work, I don't know if you watch his videos at all? Nice hydraulic crimper matey. Regards from the old sod

Great electrical content, sir. 💪🫡

"Never drill a lug, never drill a lug out" Why the fuck you lying...!! LMFAO 😂😂😂

Think you will find those Mac ladders were the property of K star electrical services bought from the Mac man in Bingham a long time ago. Awesome ladders.

So what current are those good for? Inverter must be mind blowing.

This maybe a absolutely stupid question but to save the issue with the gland plate and individually why not use a Watertight gland block similar to that used aboard ship bulkheads as I assume you cant use large ducting due to heat build up, neat job but seems that part of the job is a design ballache that could be avoided at the early stage of the inverters manufacture

So very interesting... Liking the hydraulic kit... Hope to see you use that on a house rewire soon

I wondered how they grew so many Solar Panels. How long do they take to grow?

This is exactly how I explain it to young engineers. Should do video on cascadence with similar method of explanation haha

I wonder how many of our politicians realise what it takes to upgrade our infrastructure! They talk so glibly about upgrading....... They simply don't have a clue. Good video again Jamie.

You shouldn't mark only the nut. You should always draw a STRAIGHT line down the thread and onto the nut, that way if it's working itself loose due to a fault, vibration, harmonics whatever you can diagnose it early.