Roll out of the National Electrical standards etc

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As some of you may have noticed ON ebay / Bunnings and any number of spare part suppliers...

There is a Warning as to the fitting of said part; if it is defined as an item that would breach electrical safety if a non licensed person was to fit.

In addition at Bunnings, staff are under strict instructions not to provide certain advice  as to a product install etc; other than to advise the the shopper gets an electrician to fit the said item.

I am also aware that some places will no longer supply some parts that are dreamed non user replaceable or  will only provide items listed as USER replaceable consumables. With other spare only available to qualified repairers.

My $350 magi lamp died after 2 years and while I first thought tube; it turns out that the supply has died.  This is a small cct board that generates the special voltages / frequencies etc to drive the T5 28W tube.

I contacted the local supplier and then the National distributor...


"Hi Mark, Thanks for your email regarding your A22020.
Unfortunately, we don

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too much red tape everywhere AM my old man (retired now) was a fridgie for years and the amount of compliance this n compliance that to go through was insane. still doing tech work for those blood bank machines these days ?

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hahaha yeah I remember practising plugging in a thermostat on some old fridge when i was like 12 or something , was a lot of fun. I remember those diamed analysers .....they were a pain in the proverbial at times im now working at their main lab on their pathfinders , had a little moment of glory after I managed to get a decapper module working again .....for 20mins that is I find the pathfinders pretty interesting ... wouldn't mind if I was a tech for them although I probably don't qualify with my B. App Sci in microbiology LOL yeahh im hoping to make my move in opening a roastery soon lots of homework and hard work to do before I start such a challenging project there is one guarantee that il enjoy it far more than lab work any day only a day out fishing would be better than that hahaha been meaning to meet-up with some folks off here ... when i get a chance do let me know if there's anything going on in the way of a meet up soon ohh and how are your coffee trees going? mines still a dwarf