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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 22 Jun 2018, 22:33
by Bucks woodshop
Me too but i moved into plcs and automation and now management so i cant self cert anymore but really need to get back up to date on this for when i do the extension and relocate the workshop

Yeah i thought singles still a pain in conduit though good job its trunking

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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 22 Jun 2018, 23:01
by jules70
Singles in conduit + 25mm is the way to go but I cant think for life of me why he would do it in drops ! Each to their own and must have his reasons. Very nice job.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 22 Jun 2018, 23:05
by TrimTheKing
jules70 wrote:Singles in conduit + 25mm is the way to go but I cant think for life of me why he would do it in drops ! Each to their own and must have his reasons. Very nice job.


Really don’t know mate. So long as it works and is compliant (and means I can get in ASAP) then I’m happy. ;)

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 23 Jun 2018, 04:47
by RogerS
My sparks did my wiring the same way as Mark's...trunking and drops.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 23 Jun 2018, 07:00
by Andyp
Seems to me having all those drops will get in the way of hanging cupboards, as well as a waste of cable.

Great progress though Mark.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 24 Jun 2018, 15:29
by Phil
Nice progress Mark.

At this rate there will be sawdust long before Christmas! :D :D

The clean up near the tank is a nice solution, pity about the washline.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 24 Jun 2018, 22:13
by TrimTheKing
Phil wrote:Nice progress Mark.

At this rate there will be sawdust long before Christmas! :D :D

The clean up near the tank is a nice solution, pity about the washline.


Thanks Phil, fingers crossed...

The washing lines are retractable and hidden away when not in use. They were wash days when the photos were taken.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 27 Jun 2018, 19:24
by Tusses
Well there's one I've caught up with !
Great progress Mark :-)
I bet the closer it gets , the more you want it done so you can get in there !
Try to have will power though, and get it all done and finished, as if you "move in" will odds and ends still to do , they will likely never get done :eusa-doh:

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 16:28
by TrimTheKing
Well life is no less busy but I’ve reprioritised some things in my life lately and am starting to make time for things for me!

My mate took Friday off to do some more on the electrics for me so we cracked on together and got the remaining conduit in place for the sockets round 3 sides, all the singles pulled through and 6 sockets terminated.

He care round again today for a couple of hours and we drilled through into the house and terminated into the main consumer unit so we now have a live CU in the workshop!!

We’re going to get a couple more hours at it in evenings this week and get the sockets livened up. Still to go is a bit more conduit for sockets along the front wall, lighting circuits and a couple of external lights and sockets then I can get it signed off.

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I am having the flat panels as the main lighting but in the handtool section I think I need tubes up in between the mezzanine rafters so can anyone recommend some for me, both fittings and tubes, so I don’t need to research?

The panels are 6500k LED so the tubes need to compliment these.

Cheers

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 16:58
by Doug
You sure you’re gonna have enough sockets :?:

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 16:59
by TrimTheKing
I was worried, do you think I’ve gone too few?

;)

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 17:24
by 9fingers
Why do you need a different type of light to use hand tools?
Hand tools are not something that happens in my shop** but is there a difference required? A semi serious reply.

I use trad fluorescent tubes and each time I've wondered about leds, I keep coming back to the reliability of the drivers and then we have poor malcolm's experience of severe RFI. My network connection down there is via homeplug at near limit range.

**I did use a chisel today to scrape some glue squeeze-out from the corners of a job :lol:

Bob

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 17:28
by TrimTheKing
No mate it’s nothing to do with hand tools, it’s just because having the flat panels against the underside of the joists means I will be in danger of belting them as I move stuff around. I thought it would be safer to have tubes up in between a couple of sets of joists that I could recess up slightly above the joist bottoms.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 17:40
by Andyp
Well it is progress so keep it up.

Still don't understand why you have wasted so much cable and conduit on all those vertical drops. The horizontals should be in line with the sockets. But I could be wrong.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 17:48
by RogerS
Andyp wrote:Well it is progress so keep it up.

Still don't understand why you have wasted so much cable and conduit on all those vertical drops. The horizontals should be in line with the sockets. But I could be wrong.


I asked my sparks why he'd done my workshop the same way and TBH his answer didn't make sense. I think it's a question of 'because I've always done it that way'.

Good progress, Mark. I'm driving down your way on Friday and so can call in and give confirmation to the guys that it really is progress and not some fancy Photoshop'd image :lol:

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 17:55
by Rod
Actually, daylight is a great thing.
I took great care giving my boxes a first coat of thin varnish working in the shop with lots of lighting on ( none flicker double daylight fl. tubes) But examining them later in daylight when dry I was really surprised how much I’d missed. Came as a bit of a shock - you cannot have too much lighting never mind plug sockets!

Rod

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 17:58
by TrimTheKing
Yeah defo pop in Roger. I’ll be home all day apart from School drop off and pick up (out between 14:45 - 15:30.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - What? Is that progress.

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 18:38
by Malc2098
Firstly, I've never regretted having 24 double sockets. Each time I do something that needs plugging in, I have a choice and don't have to stretch.

Secondly, could 600 x 300 or 1200 x 300 panels fit between the joists?

Just a thought.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Electrics

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 18:56
by TrimTheKing
Question, I'm just buying some more MCB's for the shop and looking at the ratings. I would think that MCB B's would be more than enough for the shop, but has anyone installed C's for any particular machines or applications?

I imagine the only 3 machines in my shop with enough possible grunt to trip a standard 13a socket would be the tablesaw (which ran fine on a 13a plug when the shop was in the house, so can't see it being any different, but I might put it on a 16a commando and matching MCB just in case, the planer/thicknesser and the DX.

All the above worked fine on 13a in the garage workshop but happy to take any advice now before I purchase.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Electrics

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 19:16
by RogerS
If they worked fine before then they should still be OK on those B breakers.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Electrics

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 19:33
by Malc2098
I have two separate 16a radials and use the table saw on one and DX on the other. I believe they're on Cs.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Electrics

PostPosted: 16 Sep 2018, 22:07
by Rod
My DEFT tablesaw is on a C with 16A plugs.
But everything else is as “normal”.

Rod

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Electrics

PostPosted: 17 Sep 2018, 11:02
by 9fingers
Just catching up with threads as my "new post" notifications are taking nearly 24hrs to turn up :shock:

I feed my workshop with a C40 breaker in the house and avoid nuisance trips in the workshop itself by having wired fuses in recycled CUs from the house when I re-wired it. These are tolerant of motor start ups but will blow in the good old fashioned way for serious fault protection.

Not this is likely to be an option for you Mark for signed off installation. I would fit C breakers for any serious motor loads. Even my 1.5hp planer will take out 13amp cartridge fuses and B16s. Motors are very variable as to whether they will take out 13amp plug fuses or low rated breakers so I would say use 16amp sockets with C breakers just in case.

OK all understood on the hand tool lighting issue. Yes keeping them from harms way is sensible but too deeply recessed could create shadows.
I'd suggest reputable brand linear fittings from leccy wholesaler like TLC and your choice of LED or fluorescent tubes

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Electrics

PostPosted: 17 Sep 2018, 17:10
by greeno
Regarding doing drops, if you've tall furniture that needs to go against the wall it is easier to remove a drop to make space than it is to reroute dado trunking.

Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Electrics

PostPosted: 07 Oct 2018, 10:14
by Phil
Coming along nicely Mark.

Just go with as many plugs as you can fit in. It's like machines & tools - you can never have enough :D

Looks like you will make the Xmas saw-dust deadline comfortably?