power supply

I'm currently building an arcade table. There are three mains powered components inside the table - speakers, monitor and single-board computer. The space inside the table is very limited so on a previous build I connected a standard 4 gang extension cord to the outside and brought the wires...

slightly bizarre discovery: We have a flat connected to our home with it’s own separate electricity consumer unit, supplied, metered and billed separately. I have the router plugged into a powerline (TP-Link) in a power socket in the house. I have the computer plugged into the powerline in a...

Hello! I've got a problem with my washer dryer. Indesit WIDL 126. Sometimes, it doesn't turn as it should (it stops earlier) and then a relay clicks lots of times. This even happens durin spin cycle. On high spin you can hear that the motor suddendly doesn't get power (even the pump) and just a...

Hi, Last night I lost the lighting for two rooms downstairs (mixture of halogen GU5.3 spots and standard bayonet fixtures. The hallway lights are unaffected, despite being on the same circuit. No fuses were not tripped and i tested the RCD, with no affect. Is it possible that the transformer...

Hey. I have a Accenta/Optima Mini G4 that was installed by the previous owners of the house I've recently moved into. It was all working fine the RCD in the consumer unit was turned off so that some electrical work could be done elsewhere in the house. I thought nothing of it, once the work was...

Afternoon! I have a combi gas boiler. It has a Hive heating controller wired in on one side. The other side has a fused switch for isolating the power to the boiler. I assumed it was a spur as the supply cable to the switch disappeared behind a cabinet. A few days ago, I discovered that this...

Just teared down a cheap USB power supply from a USB hub, and to no surprise :rolleyes: the isolation between the mains primary side and the SELV secondary side was suspicious at best. Not only did my non contact voltage detection stick react to what should have been the separated isolated 5V...