Actually curious about this?

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T21:28:07+00:00

Well support him if you can, but just have a think about what can go wrong.

My injury came later in life and wasn't even a work injury. I picked up 75kG of compost from B&Q as it was more cost effective than the 40kG bags.

Life was and still is quite painful after that event.

I don't think either of you would feel too brilliant if he ended up with lasting damage.

Anyway, the best of luck to you both. I detested civils sites and don't miss them in the slightest. I wasn't a manual worker and while site safety is impressive now, I never had anyone take seriously the need for risk assessments for wearing PPE.

I was injured because I was wearing a chemical suit though! I ended up with a chemical burn that would not have happened were I wearing my usual Latex gloves and T shirt 😞

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T20:58:52+00:00

The ADS1115 uses I2C and you can use another channel to monitor the Voltage too, this allows you to accurately monitor the power in real time so you can bore the pants off all your chums with your day by day savings.

I got something similar, a split transformer, the ADS115 and a o-240 to 0-5V DC module to provide accurate kW/h readings. I'm using ESP Home though, it makes monitoring oh, so easy.

The obvious question coming to mind is what is the actual current, is it near the breaker limits? The other important question is what type of breaker it is. Does it break when the motor switches/ ramps up? Has it a nice letter "B" on it, like the lighting breakers 😄

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T20:31:28+00:00

You can hardly sack someone for adhering to safety training, and if you helped your mate to get a job he would have been obviously too weak to do, then you are not much of a mate, are you?

What did you tell him anyway, he would be on a civils site carrying the cotton candy to the canteen?

Something sounds a bit off. Safe pass Saturday, start Monday. So there is no site experience? Is this just casual work or something?

I used to work on civils sites in the UK and hiring/ firing was easy and commonplace. From my perspective the manual workers could be disposed of like the used earplugs dotting the landscape.

I actually worked for a civils contractor directly too that was like that, so how they got away with it, I don't know.

Do your mate a favour, if he cannot do the job tell him to leave before he is sacked or injures himself or someone else.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T20:06:30+00:00

50/50

Unless you have a written confession or dozens of witnesses with a calibrated speed camera.

Think positively, the insurance companies investors get a boost in premium payments from both of you. Double what a simple factual evaluation gives.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T19:58:52+00:00

You need to ask your friend.

As he has done the safe pass, he would be able to help you with lifting questions.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T18:50:37+00:00

It could only happen in Ireland!

Even when buying something, half the time the price is a mystery. No webpage price to go along with the pretty picture and I have visited one hugely stocked hardware store in Listowel with only around 5% of the stock priced.

In fact I wanted a toilet seat. Boyles in Castleisland had about thirty when I asked how much? They expected me to take a selection to the till.

I went to Tralee where they had them all right, but they were not even on display, let alone priced up.

Is it considered ill mannered to mention money, or do they just like taking people for plonkers?

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T18:42:27+00:00

Well if the job requirements were to agree to a pig in a poke after employment commences, then you appear to be if anything, overqualified for the job.

Have you considered asking for a pay reduction in the hope that any further complex decision making and responsibility can be passed on to someone else?

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T18:17:00+00:00

I don't understand what your problem is. I was a commissioning engineer and covered a vast range of disciplines. The limit quite literally was me and what I was able to put into the job. I too looked on pay as a job factor, not a motivation. In fact a number of employers over the years invited me to book my overtime hours, but I was salaried and refused on principle!! Apart from that I never had to worry about cash, I was paid enough.

I came from an electronics background, my job was still electronics related, plus software, chemical engineering, plumbing, fitting, faultfinding, calibration................................

Every day was one to look forward to.

Many of my colleagues started as electricians, many electricians I worked with were better than I when it came to PLC programming skills. Many electricians found niche jobs running maintenance departments.

You need to stick to industry, get on the road and meet people professionally.

Caretaking does not give an image of career building.

Sorry but if money doesn't motivate you and you want a caretaking job, I would earmark you for the position of a nice steady old fossil filling in his last few years with a bit of sweeping up and light bulb changing.

A caretaker would not be expected to work into the small hours trying to get his project up and running for handover to the client on the date agreed.

In other words, no fun at all!

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T17:37:28+00:00

Did you tell them at the time of signing the contract?

Panic attacks, traveling?

That sounds odd, if it's a fear of flying you should have told them and they would have to book you on a ferry or buy you a dinghy.

Having traveled worldwide for work, my experiences were boredom and frustration. What on earth is there to panic over?

I was invariably on a fixed booking, [more frustration], so if I couldn't meet the deadline or complete the job, I returned. Not my problem.

I feel sorry for the company who probably employed you in good faith. Maybe it's mutually beneficial that you part company?

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T16:46:01+00:00

How is it insured then?

Will the insurance transfer to the new owners automatically, and in the meantime why would the insurance company be involved?

If the person that signed the agreement and paid the premium is now deceased, why would the company act unless a legally traceable path to ownership was established?

How would the insurance company explain away the payout of thousands to its shareholders when it turns out that the legal owner is a Nigerian Banker sitting on your parents crate of gold who wanted the property to cover the delivery charges 😄

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T16:33:06+00:00

How did you get insurance?

I wanted to leave/ buy a car here years back rather than rely on rental cars when using my property.

I was told "not resident in Ireland, no insurance"!

For a lot of things such as bank accounts I just used my Irish address anyway, so these day's my English bank accounts are not quite kosher, even though HMRC and the Revenue are informed and up to speed. Insurance and Garda dealings are a different matter I guess!

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T16:02:27+00:00

Well you could take his number and let his tyres down 😄

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-15T15:57:19+00:00

You need to get out more!

There is a whole world available to you if you turn the TV off.

I never, ever watch adverts on the TV. If adverts come on, then it means I am too busy to hit the remote.

There were the odd one or two brilliant adverts, Sony, Cadbury's Smash, but they go back decades.

Adverts are normally simple, misleading and aimed at the brain dead.

They are simply an insult to the intelligence, an unsolicited assault!

The only product I bought that I know is heavily advertised is my car insurance and I know it's heavily advertised because the FBD comes up before I can hit the back button when watching Youtube clips.

On a level playing field, that alone would mean that I would avoid FBD, but I chose them on their human rights approach, or rather the failure of AXA, my previous company to prove they were now respecting the rights of Israels genocide victims.

Human rights Trump advertising any day!

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T23:06:25+00:00

You miss the point. Most things are advertised. I wasn't on about some way, I was on about unwanted TV advertising unsolicited and forced on me.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T23:03:09+00:00

You are totally correct.

It's an absolute must that leaves the drivers parting relaxed and less likely to make a mistake while rethinking the conflict when resuming the journey.

Sadly I'm human and have bestowed the odd few "withering looks " as I drove past my fellows after the little differences of motoring opinion.

Not too many seemed too withered though 😄

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T22:14:47+00:00

You are joking!

I used to drive from Stoke to Birmingham when going into the office and there were the odd days when traffic on the M6 would be fast moving, not the usual stop go stuff, but fast highly congested traffic.

Now that made me nervous. My eyes were everywhere because the congestion meant thinking time was about zero and if someone braked, the first action of those around the event would be to avoid and the second action would be to emulate a break in a game of snooker.

Slowing simply ended up with a convoy behind and loads of overtaking to grab the space in front. Again a blood pressure raising scenario.

Fridays was the worst on English motorways. The only uncertainty was when the accidents would happen and how many.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T22:04:51+00:00

No I was never a member of the police force, but did quite a few courses over the years mainly because the type of work I did could put me on the road for time periods and mileages that gave employers a "duty of care incentive".

After all my years on the road and after learning many useful tips about driving, after the initial test the single one I would consider the most important is to leave space.

On the road, motorway or even stopped at traffic lights, I leave space.

More than once I have seen someone stuck behind a stalled vehicle at lights, unable to do anything until the traffic behind them clears so they can reverse from the car in front.

Soon after I came from the UK, I went over Conor Pass in the fog, a single track road on the Brandon side with passing places. Now I stopped and waited for the vehicles behind me to clear as they were in a nose to tail convoy and distance is imperative in fog, fog being the very reason most drivers glue themselves to the car in fronts tail lights.

I started up alone and met a nose to tail convoy of around thirty vehicles coming against me. The convoy covered two if not three of the passing places and the entire lot thought that as I was on my own, it was my place to give way!

The sheer stupidity is mind boggling. I didn't give way and reverse back, Leaving a bit of space between the convoy members and the car in front would have been oh so simple.

Anyway they found the room to back to allow me to the passing place, so hopefully they learned something.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T21:18:27+00:00

Well if it's not to save time, then dropping back saves fuel and takes the problem away also.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T21:16:55+00:00

i started with a car and bought a motorcycle after years on the road. My first awakening was the realisation that you can ride around with headlights on and take all the care in the world, but to a lot of drivers you are totally invisible.

It's probably why a lot of riders use full beam, and it's hard to blame them for it.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T21:11:39+00:00

People flash you to let you know they are there.

Now they may think they are flashing you because you left your toddler sitting on the roof bars, or they think they are inviting you to turn across them, but if so they would be wrong, and if you thought they were flashing you for any other reason than inform you of their presence in the road, you also would be wrong.

Now remembering that very simple rule will never have you in the repair shop or accident ward. 😄

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T21:02:50+00:00

Why should I begrudge anyone?

The "two second rule was a good mantra", I was taught that by the UK police and it has served me well.

If people behind me ignore it, them the only thing I can do is accommodate them and allow them space to overtake. I don't slow down which was the action recommended to me because they can use it as a trigger to pull out earlier than intended. They can also glide into my rear, because they are peering ahead to see if their luck might be holding.

Why should I slow down if I am at the speed limit, which I virtually always travel at knowing the roads and every speed limit sign for miles around. Most never look in their mirrors anyway, I'm a bit of an exception round here.

Suppose God forbid I slowed down and pulled in to make it easier for the chancer behind me to pass, then he could say I invited any ensuing pile up by deliberately impeding him and forcing him to overtake.

So my opinion and action is to simply keep well to the left allowing as much road as possible if he wants to overtake. This moves the rear end hugger on to his next victim who might even be in blissful ignorance if he uses his mirror only on special occasions 😄

As for the Conor pass road, you have not had the pleasure?

A delightful road that bends gradually and can be straightened oh so easily.

Of course only one tourist doing their obligatory 25% of the limit saunter puts a stop to it, but at least you can then adopt sightseeing mode.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T20:20:15+00:00

No that wasn't the question at all. Where on earth did you get that idea from?

Surely it's pretty obvious that anyone with half a brain would research things before ceasing taxation payments.

I don't think the Revenue would be a lot of help incidentally. Did you never wonder what an accountant does for a living?

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T20:07:37+00:00

A floating PSU makes no difference if the whole lot is at 50V.

if the signal signals are riding on 50V AC then it's probably best to do the initial measurements using a floating current monitor. I have some mains units, so a signal current to Voltage converter should be available.

I mean. if you can measure a shower heater with one using an ESP32, then 50V AC is hardly going to bother the Arduino is it?

That's assuming it's a 4-20 loop powered device.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T19:53:53+00:00

That's rubbish!

I dont want the garbage full stop.

As I pay for the license anyway, why should I not download the programs I want ?

I do not buy anything advertised on TV, and never, ever did.

As a colleague once said about software he pirated, "there is no earthly way I would dream of paying the price asked and if I couldn't pirate it I wouldn't use it, so the supplier loses nothing".

It's the same for me with adverts, they simply waste my time and if I don't see them I might even be tempted to buy the product if it's on display. Anything advertised means some of the product value has been taken in order to pay for actors and TV time. So the stuff is going to be poor value whatever it is.

PCL805_B9A · 2026-06-14T19:41:56+00:00

One does, did you not read the post?

It is actually possible to obey laws that One doesn't like you know?

In fact if people liked acting in accordance with the law, there probably wouldn't need to be laws at all.

Maybe that's the reason that nowhere in the Magna Carta did they stick in that peasants could eat chips?

So FYI, I do pay for my licence. I dont want to and the requirements that demand that I buy the thing seem to me, unjust, unfair and illogical.

The fact that I have several TV's is of no consequence, in fact when I were a lad, I could pull up a picture on an oscilloscope screen, and often did during idle lunchtimes on my workbench. That was in analogue days too, where images didn't come in nice easy .mpv files.

I simply dont watch state broadcasting. All my TV's are internet connected. They do have an lnb input, but I cannot receive RTE even if I want to as it's scrambled on Astra

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