Electricians Applaud Conviction of a Notorious Solar Panel Fraudster

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Electricians welcome the conviction of a notorious solar panel fraudster…
…Sainsbury’s becomes the first supermarket to launch its own charger network…
..and what EXACTLY are the rules on notching joists to run cables?
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00:00 Electrical Industry News - Monday 22nd January
00:33 Notorious solar panel gang back in court
01:29 Sainsbury's launches its own EV Charger network
02:13 BT to convert street cabinets into plug-in-points
02:36 Charger supplier envevo buys electrical contractor
03:10 Couple drive from pole-to-pole in an electric car
03:44 Nominate someone for the 30 Under 30 Awards
04:15 This weeks' Question of the week
05:00 New range of connectors designed for solar panel installs
05:26 Record breaking lamps from Philips
05;47 Vortice launches fan to tackle mould issues
06:12 Do you cut notches in joists to run cables?
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@electrician247 4 ай бұрын

One of the sad things ive discovered since joining the PV industry is the number of bandits and customers who have been ripped off. Good show Joe!

@njcelectricalservicessheff9684 4 ай бұрын

fully concur Mark

@edc1569 4 ай бұрын

Luckily we all pay for an organisation called MCS who ensures excellent standards.

@VinoVeritas_ 4 ай бұрын

And MCS facilitates this.

@electrician247 4 ай бұрын

@@edc1569 we have a podcast on that this week. I dont think some in industry will be happy with what we have to say. Got some heat pump installers on as well

@M0j0 4 ай бұрын

They should throw the book at fraudsters. We got stung by, now in administration, first4solar who are also currently under investigation. We were lucky that HIES could save our installation and our 5k deposit!

@chezzykennedy5692 4 ай бұрын

Screeching and omniscient

@dougsaunders8109 4 ай бұрын

Notches are going to be next big issue with properties, once a couple of sparks and plumbers have been through joist are starting to look like Swiss cheese. Being able to see other holes and notches on re wires / replumbs is often impossible. How many people honestly say yep I have done the calculations it is fine

@chrishorne3185 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Joe for another great news presentation 👍

@stevejacklin8462 4 ай бұрын

screeching and omniscient

@efixx 4 ай бұрын

One of these words is used to describe Joe! 😂 Good guesses Steve, listen to next week's show to see if you got them right. 💪

@markrainford1219 4 ай бұрын

Who, my wife?

@retrozmachine1189 4 ай бұрын

AFDDs on inverters is an interesting thing. I've heard a few tales from working sparkies of trips happening with inverters that are operating standalone, ie mains failed or not present at all. Some inverters react to brief overload situations by mangling the AC waveform either as a result of running out of steam and not being able to maintain regulation or as a method to limit current. The AFDD saw the mangled waveform as being an arc fault and tripped.

@edc1569 4 ай бұрын

Why would you put an afdd on a battery inverter? Seems an odd choice.

@retrozmachine1189 4 ай бұрын

@@edc1569Not the supply to the inverter, the finals in the rest of the installation.

@FistralG 4 ай бұрын

Screeching & Omniscient

@sergiofernandez3725 4 ай бұрын

Its good to hear that another supermarket (Sainsbury’s) is rolling out EVSE with their own charging network. The store near me (Watford) has been fitting them for the last 3 weeks. However and this is a BIG HOWEVER not seen anyone from the National Grid or PowerNetwork UK doing any upgrades in my area so I think there may be fun when the chargers can't get enough power or the 50 to 60 year old cable under the tarmac starts to burn out or develop faults. Stay tuned for PEN fault updates in my local area.

@retrozmachine1189 4 ай бұрын

You'd expect a new transformer on site with that number of kW being tossed around really, wouldn't you. Unlikely anything existing on site would have the on-demand capacity available let alone the surrounding LV network.

@jameshughesdon5370 4 ай бұрын

Most supermarkets have massive supplies already due to old lighting and cooling, now they have plenty of spare capacity so no need to upgrade the grid :)

@retrozmachine1189 4 ай бұрын

@@jameshughesdon5370 Places like this tended to have fluro lighting in the past, replace that with LEDs today. Yes, LED is lower wattage but not that much different to gain even 10kW (at a guess). Similarly efficiency gains in cooling aren't big enough. If they put in a 5 charger arrangement thats 5 x 150kW (actual power ratings are higher as per this week's news), or 750kW. If you think there are any efficiency movements in lighting and cooling that will free that sort of capacity you are dreaming. FYI, 750kVA equates to the supply for an entire suburban supermarket + smattering of smaller shops that is just down the road from me.

@jameshughesdon5370 4 ай бұрын

@retrozmachine1189 I'm getting my figures from working in thousands of supermarkets across the UK they have plenty spare, why install 150 + chargers when a 50KW will do a 40min charge, and that's the normal time it takes my wife to go round ....

@retrozmachine1189 4 ай бұрын

@@jameshughesdon5370 Yet 150kW+ capable is what they are doing so that's the sort of power requirements. Do your suburban supermarkets really have 500+kW of capacity just sitting around, ie ability of the transformer etc is up around 1.5 to 2MVA? That sounds rather bizarre to me with how much more the transformer and other infrastructure would cost.

@travellingman4609 4 ай бұрын

I still find public rapid EV chargers cost prohibitive. They're always 80p+ per kW compared to under 30p for home energy, yes that's at 7kW speed but my car can charge while I sleep. I feel for anyone unable to recharge at home.

@DevAnubis 4 ай бұрын

Good to see another network using Kempower chargers, they're modular and all the power-electronics are on the back-end in cabinets with (relatively)simple front-ends by the car bays. It'll be interesting though to see how well Sainsburys are able to maintain their DC charging network though. Even players like AppleGreen struggle to keep their hardware working across all locations, where as the big dedicated DC charging networks have a much better track record of keeping on top of their operations (GridServe, InstaVolt, Osprey).

@kevinhenryviii 4 ай бұрын

Omniscient and screeching😎

@alpachino468 4 ай бұрын

It just feels like these scammers get nothing more than a slap on the wrist; I mean, were they even ordered to pay back the people they scammed?

@jameshughesdon5370 4 ай бұрын

been saying it for years. Supermarkets have massive supplys 1000 - 2000 amp supplies due to historic lighting and cooling. most now only pull around 500, so plenty of spare capacity :)

@efixx 4 ай бұрын

Great info

@EmpoweringElec 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful stuff, love the eefix electrical news. Ps how can we get a hold of some eefix merchandise such as stickers, hats etc. From Australia 🦘

@efixx 4 ай бұрын

Drop me a line gordon@efixx.co.uk

@gnlgrim2 4 ай бұрын

What boggles my mind is , no one is upgrading any electrical infrastructure.they think power falls out the air. The cables in the ground are 50+ years old, all with pme faults on and now want to add ev chargers to every block. Get your inverters installed lads. Power cuts are around the corner.

@deang5622 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's right, they've all got PME faults and everyone's being electrocuted because the PEN conductor is broken. Bollocks.

@edc1569 4 ай бұрын

Been hearing this claim ever since the first wind turbines were installed 30 years ago. My EV charges in the middle of the night when most people are drawing 150W. We’re a long way off of it being a drama.

@edc1569 4 ай бұрын

Was there similar levels of hysteria when electric showers were introduced? You don’t even have to tell the DNO you’ve fitted them

@r.h.8754 4 ай бұрын

Most of us tend to use showers for only a few minutes (my cousin is the exception - 30 mins has been known!😡), an electric car could be drawing 11KW for several hours.

@deang5622 4 ай бұрын

@@r.h.8754 The main fuses in most residential properties are 100 amps (sometimes 60 amps). I don't know if the electricity companies have applied a diversity factor and are unable to supply 100 amps concurrently to all houses, but 11KW is only 47 amps which is less than half of the maximum available to a property.

@mikebarry229 4 ай бұрын

screeching omniscient

@efixx 4 ай бұрын

Great guesses Mike, listen to next week's show to see if you're a winner! 😃

@NIAtoolkit 4 ай бұрын

efficacy omniscient

@efixx 4 ай бұрын

Good guesses, make sure you listen in next Monday to see if you're right! 😁

@geraldelwood9660 4 ай бұрын

Is everybody Only listening for the smuggled words? Surely there is a NOT missing at 6:40. ie. notching is permitted if the joist is NOT less than 250mm in depth.

@efixx 4 ай бұрын

Nope, I double checked because it read weird to me too. If the joist is over 250mm you should seek advice from a structural engineer. ☺️

@geraldelwood9660 4 ай бұрын

@@efixx Thanks for the reply. That's so crazy it would seem it must have been a misprint. eg : Surely a 12mm notch in a 1000mm joist would not need referral 😀

@mikebarry229 4 ай бұрын

@@geraldelwood9660 I think the thought process is that joists are large for a reason and a deep joist over 250mm deep is fairly rare in domestic condstruction and implies large loads or long spans (and were likely designed by an engineer in the first place, rather than just plucked from a table). That doesn't mean they cannot be notched (though a hole drilled through the centreline is far far preferable, notches should always be a last resort), but get advice if you do.

@joemo1222 4 ай бұрын

Omniscient screeching

@MartinE63 4 ай бұрын

WOW I finally won!!! Only just watched this two days after it aired Email sent

@dansheppard2965 4 ай бұрын

Arctic to Antarctica is easy: it's all downhill. ;-)

@stevehansonmakes 4 ай бұрын

Screeching, Omniscient

@Jasonf-km5mq 4 ай бұрын

screeching & omniscient

@JamieRiley69 4 ай бұрын

The EV Nissan needed the help of 2 6 x 6 Ford diesel trucks to make the journet

@bucklelanefarm 4 ай бұрын

Omniscient screeching?

@radiotowers1159 4 ай бұрын

Notching joists..too late. 150 kw chargers, I wonder how long the network operator will take.

@MarcusNailor 4 ай бұрын

Screeching & omniscient

@gardenogauge 4 ай бұрын

What happened to us desk jockeys?! 😔

@_eusty 4 ай бұрын

Squealing and Omniscient 😊😊

@G1ZQCArtwork 4 ай бұрын

Screeching Omniscient.

@liamdraper447 4 ай бұрын

Hey Joe completely irrelevant but thanks for your electrical science videos and the quality that goes into them, finding it really helpful for my upcoming tests

@efixx 4 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!

@contytub 4 ай бұрын

the fact the he was allowed to get to that sum of money is what's wrong with industry at this point ... that not only makes a bad image for good electricians but the money lost could have actually gone to pay decent electricians and make paying customers happy. now customers are shorted on money and decent electricians lost a lot of potential work/income ...

@efixx 4 ай бұрын

Yup, it's not good. 🙁

@james.telfer 4 ай бұрын

Extractor fans are just blowing your expensively heated air outside. Unless that unit has a heat exchanger it's simply going to create draft elsewhere and increase your heating costs. Might as well open the window when needed instead! 🤷🤦

@efixx 4 ай бұрын

You do need some ventilation in homes.

@edc1569 4 ай бұрын

Luckily landlords don’t give a shit.